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Numismatism Begins At Home (A Thread About Coins)

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"Announcing the biggest design change in British coinage since decimalisation"

New money, new thread, they aren't rationed, you know.

yr change is changing

can i be the first to say, "yuck"?

Coinage just doesn't generate the same excitement it once did, don't you find?

very post-modern, not sure if I approve

$5 bills . . . Now in color

can i be the second to say "yuck". and also that i do like shiny coins though.

Are those the actual designs? I thought they were hidden behind a cardboard sheet with holes in it, so you were seeing a bit of them. Jeez those are fucking horrible.

enw money has such bad taste. am i rght here

just drunk

They look pretty darn good, better than the dreary stuff I have jangling in my pocket at the moment. Look forward to Daily Mail/Express frothing at the mouth about them.

I just don't think trompe-l'œil is what I'm looking for in a legal tender.

New money, new problems.

Look forward to Daily Mail/Express frothing at the mouth about them.

The Daily Mail should love these! Look, they've got no numerical values on, just words. And that's going to confuse the piss out of foreigners, because it's already annoying enough when you've got a pocket full of weird foreign money and you're trying to scrape together the money for a coffee but you have to squint at everything for a minute just to find out it's only a 2p. And that is only RIGHT and PROPER because that'll learn 'em to come into our country without impeccable English reading skills, yeah?

But I'm surprised they're so popular here. I think they're kind of ugly, and the two people I showed them to liked them even less than I do. Sure, when you've got them all laid out like in the picture at the top (and you fade the colours so they're not quite so mismatched) it's quite a nice effect, but taken individually I find the off-centre effect pretty nasty. And I guess off-centre is cool in design now, but for how long? I'd think it was a neat idea for a limited run, but the thought of opening my purse in a decade and seeing nothing but these in varying stages of tarnish makes me a bit sadface.

Oh well. I'll get used to them.

not nearly as ugly as newfangled usa HUGE PURPLE FIVE currency

i like 'em. traditional yet modern. contemporary yet classic. compact and bijou.

And I guess off-centre is cool in design now

really i don't think off-centre is anything particularly radical, it's not as if up until now design has exclusively worshipeed at the holy grail of symmetry.

Fellas:

Numismatism Begins At Home (A Thread About Coins)

"Announcing the biggest design change in British coinage since decimalisation"

"It's the old age pensioners I feel sorry for" stories ahoy.

x-post I'm afraid this train's already a'rollin'. Can there really be too many currency threads? I also think this one has a better titlen those two.

I also feel sorry for old folks but the currency's the least of it.

I don't like them. They look... incomplete. They look just too... late 00s corporate design for me. Surely coins are supposed to look, well, classic, because seeing as they'll be around for the next 50 years or whatever, surely they'll look horribly dated soon?

Hmmmmmmmmmm, shiny coins, nom nom

is there another thread about currency design?
these are cool
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2014/10/snohetta_back/lead.jpg?nd4xln
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/10/Screen_Shot_2014_10_08_at_12.00.54_PM/a4da34684.png
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/10/Screen_Shot_2014_10_08_at_12.00.36_PM/28f7bf89c.png

I agree, but there must be some hidden, but robust, anti-counterfeiting features because no cashier could look at those designs and immediately see tiny differences from the norm.

are those 3-d magic eyes or something?

because that would be pretty cool

thought this would be a thread of upbraiding people with gold taps and porsche cayenne turbos

^^^^

so this evening when i was buying a packet of hula hoops my modern plastic-style £5 just snapped in half -- not worn and then torn like the paper ones did when they were old and smelly but a clean wiggly break as I pulled it from my pocket, like it just snapped

anyway the sweetshop man accepted it, he was more amused and interested than suspicious

"that shouldn't happen" was his takeaway, and mine too