"Authorized, non-circulating, Liberian legal tender" OR a thread about the 9/11 commemorative $20 "coin certificate."

i think these are for people who own thomas kinkade artworks

this cannot be real.

my favorite part is about the 9 and the 11 in the corners adding up the the twenty-dollar face value of the coin.

also, the sentence fragment " I wonder what your run-of-the-mill numismatist?" should have ended, "thinks about this."

Note that the display box costs extra.

awesome how it's larger than ANY U.S. currency bill in existence.

but will it fit in a change machine?

dude they are selling it for FACE VALUE show some fucking respect

"On the front the frosted Twin Towers stand out against a mirror-like background much as they did in the gleaming sunlight of that fateful morning"

fuck i just typed that and then c0lin posted

"On the front the frosted Twin Towers stand out against a mirror-like background much as they did in the gleaming sunlight of that fateful morning"

-- C0L1N B..., Monday, August 4, 2008 4:52 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

that was pretty much the jaw-dropper for me.

Strict limit of five per customer!

haha jesus this commercial

i've seen it three or four times and still can't believe it's real

it's already been "Epic Failed" on Attack of the Show

if you have any complaints you can email the folks who did this at csweb at ncmintonline.com

this is my favorite commercial on TV i think

BULLETIN

BULLETIN

BULLETIN

They let me buy six.

The linked site claims Liberia gets "something like 97,3 percent of it's gross national product" from seling this stuff, yet there's no mention of it on the Wikipedia page for Liberian Economy.

Tuomas took those dudes to SCHOOL

I'm sure they get more money from letting American cruise ships fly under their flag.

you mean under their flag certificates.

The linked site claims Liberia gets "something like 97,3 percent of it's gross national product" from seling this stuff, yet there's no mention of it on the Wikipedia page for Liberian Economy.

To be fair, GDP hasn’t accurately been projected since the 90’s since no one has access to investment or government purchase numbers.

what a sad history liberia has.

this episode is a good instantiation of marx's dictum that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce

Liberia is just lucky that A.) most Americans don't know shit about geography, and B.) "Liberian" kinda sounds like maybe it has something to do with freedom

a - as opposed to those who don't know shit about history?

b - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia#Etymology

“…in a silvery tribute to all who were lost”

I should clarify - I didn't mean for my 'a' to deny that the history of Liberia is strange and sad. I only meant for it to reinforce my 'b' that Liberia is indeed named for the concept of Liberty. No kinda maybe about it.

well yeah, I sorta figured that that was the case. I guess I could've worded it better.

(also probably giving average Americans too much credit by assuming that they would recognize the Latin root, but w/e)

i think almost everyone would make that connection instantly.

except average americans, who don't even know how to process sounds.

I can't help what I can't help! ;_;

"I'm a libertarian"
"That's fascinating, what part of libertaria are you from?"

"I'm a librarian"
"That's fascinating, etc etc"

ok this they say they offer this at "face value" of $20 USD, but according to the face of this it's $20 LD, which is worth 31 cents in USD http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic?value=1&exch=USD&expr=LRD

that means you're payingt $1280 in liberian dollars for $20 liberian

this is beginning to sound fishy

it is funny though that they are pretty much lying! i mean that's almost fraud innit?