US Currency Re-imagined to Celebrate Ideas, Not the Dead

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6 points·Shofo··5 comments

The $50 note looks awesome. Although, overall the designs are not the most practical looking. Have any of you seen the new Norwegian notes? -> http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/nor...

Do you mean practical in the sense of anti-fraud capabilities, or in the sense of likely-to-win-general approval?

I think the designs are really great. Norway's are great too.

I really wish Americans were more properly suspicious of tradition.

That currency is offensive to the increasingly large number of Americans who do not or can not "work", or choose not to participate in the soul-destroying crapitalistic exchange of slave labour for artifically-backed so-called "currency".

(Please don't downvote me, I don't actually feel that way, but that's the reaction I would expect from the current culture of the easily-offended.)

I rather like them myself, though I agree they're a little on the impractical side. I do wish we'd consider something more radical of a design change one of these days, if for no other reason than to at least make the current counterfeiters have to go out and get new equipment.

Yeah I really like the $50 dollar note and the designs overall, but I'd agree they are not the most practical. I've seen those Norwegian notes, they look great.

Needs more triangles.

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