When I came to US, I
thought it would be similar here too. I was quite surprised to learn that all notes had the same colour
and size. So, one has to be careful all the time while dealing with money. Ofcourse as students, we are always broke and use credit-cards more frequently. Nowadays, I carry only small denominations, mostly for parking or other such reasons. Life revolves around a quarter here hehehehe.I have always been fascinated with currencies. These days, thanks to the widespread acceptance of credit cards and ATMs, it is not such a hassel to get currency in another country. So, I can eat in an european city during a transit without worrying about e
uros or other money. Turns out that even euros have differ
ent colours for different denominations.I wonder who makes these decisions about currencies - their colour, size and photographs. That would be a cool job indeed.
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Hey, nalla irukku currency pics ellam! Where did you get them?
I remember the first bus ride in Canada when we managed to irritate the driver by turning over all coins/notes to see what denomination it was before dropping it into the box - LOL!!
Google wat else ?
and here is some more weird news -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2730121.stm
Yep, its a cool job to design currencies and I guess they might keep some samples too to spend :)
And ONE RAAM currency? Weird, Weird!!
Archana and you are miles apart, I guess when it comes to the size of a blog post :)
Shilpa, interesting post ... and it does make sense right to have different sizes for different denominations ...although sometimes in Delhi also, I might have given off a 500 instead of a 100 ... but a 100 instead of a 5 never happens thankfully. I too found it funny here that all notes look the same! I try to keep them in different pockets of the wallet so that I do not commit that kinda mistake :-).
And yes, it was good to see the rupees in the picture after long :-).
me too! have been fooled by a 500 for a 100 so many times...
yabbaa!! ivvlavu panam naan mothamaa ore edathula paarthathe illa!! romba santhoshamaa irukku!!
Hey Shilpa,
Within dollars, isnt the 20$ bill, and higher denominations wider/bigger than the 1$ bill? I am not sure. But yeah, it is hard to make out the denominations because all of them are in the same color.
>>These days, thanks to the widespread acceptance of credit cards and ATMs, it is not such a hassel to get currency in another country.
Our first day of the tour in Rome, we were in a Mall kind of a place, and none of tiny shops there accepted cards! And we had not gotten any Euros then (with all the confusion) and were not able to buy anything! :--(
Its fun collecting the currencies of different countries. Good old days of stamp collection and coin collection. :--)
top right photo la irukum currencies irundha podhum enaku.....
Prabhu,
you see writing is her passion :-)
archana,
yup i've made that mistake too...but still its not as bad as dollars.
prasanna,
same pinch
kutti,
hehehe same here
SK,
yeah its harder to collect currencies these days.
Syam,
hehehe...r u sure u dont want euros instead ?
.._)) hopefully your problem will be solved soon atleast for 10$ bill. US fedral reserve had issued currency redesign and will be available soon.
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney/
from numismatist...
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