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From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams XT/DU)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: American Money - One Color
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 11:15:34 EST
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Larry Bickford says:

> People may rely on the colour so much that someone might start passing
> coloured paper for bills.

I think all European contries have coloured currency notes (oops... bills
I mean). I've never yet in Europe seen or heard of anyone passing coloured 
paper. But maybe that's just because Europeans are just more honest than
you people (?). We also make our notes different sizes to make it even easier.

We don't even seem to get confused when we accidentaly mix up notes of
different currency. We DO get confused by the one colour one size American
money which all looks the same. We also get confused when we accidentally (?)
mix up coins of different contries. So do European coin box telephones
(pay phones ... in case you didn't  know) slot machines, one armed bandits
etc. This is why many countries in Europe have resorted to peculiarly
shaped coins or coins with holes in!

Maybe the moral of all this is that you Americans are richer than we are:
therefor you get confused about notes whereas we poorer Europeans get 
confused about coins!

Mike Williams

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