Well, today is Presidents day. A national holiday here in the US where we can reflect on the great leaders we’ve been blessed to have had in charge of our nation throughout our history. In honor of that, I thought the above video of people counting cash(which in the US always has former presidents on the face) was particularly appropriate. Happy Presidents day.
Counting your Presidents
February 18th, 2008 by Jamie Barrows | Cash, Money, Presidents
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The $100 Bill has Benjamin Franklin who was never President but was an influential political figure.
The $10 bill has Alexander Hamilton who was never a President but rather the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Will Rogers joked that “he started the treasury with nothing and that’s as close as we’ve ever been to breaking even.”
True, should have said “Almost always has former presidents”
So while the phrase “pictures of dead Presidents” cannot be correctly applied to US currency, the phrase “pictures of dead people” can as it’s illegal for a picture of a living person to appear on our currency. Of course “pictures of dead people” conjures up ideas of a morgue more than money!
In Germany we would be counting buildings and bridges.
(Theme: European ages and styles)
http://www.bundesbank.de/bargeld/bargeld_banknoten.php
We don’t even have a holiday celebrating all our former leaders…. seen the fact that this would be a very long line up to the old Teutons.
Considering certain times in newer history I think this is not really necessary.
Ah, but Germany no longer has its own currency — it uses the Euro. Perhaps if (when?) the countries of North America unite they will have a similarly generic currency. I can see NAU dollars with pictures of the Spotted Owl or Niagara Falls.
OK, so I don’t know much about the Euro. Wikipedia says that Euro coins have a national side with images chosen by the issuing country. Bank notes, however, do not have a national side. They have two common sides — the fronts have windows or gateways and the backs have bridges. More interesting is that the structures depicted do not bear any resemblance to real structures so as not to cause jealously!
Yes, Michael, you’re right, we have the Euro in Germany since 2002.
“In Germany we….” refers to the fact that the country in which I’m living is Germany. Despite the common currency the nations in Europe are not yet really “united”, so it is not that much the feeling of “We in Europe” as it would be e.g. in USA.
There is a European Parliament but it doesn’t have the same “global” meaning as the government of the USA. The nations in Europe still are much more autonomous. But they are growing together more and more….
The notes and their motives are shown in the link in my first comment (see above “#4″).
The coins of the different nations have their own “national” sides. But of course with time they mix in the purses all over europe and it’s nice and interesting to see those of the other nations.
Various coins can be seen here:
http://dph1701.tripod.com/50quarters/europe.html
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