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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
Poll Question
......do you think that money would be taken seriously anymore? How does this relate to the issuance of dozens upon dozens of commemorative coins released since 1999? Discuss. Results
| Yes, money is still money. |
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50% |
15 Votes |
| No, it would cheapen the image of our currency. |
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27% |
8 Votes |
| I don't particularly mind one way or the other. |
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20% |
6 Votes |
| Other: (please add comment) |
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3% |
1 Votes |
Poll Status:
Locked
Total Votes: 30 Counted
Last Vote:
10/25/2014 10:14 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
589 Posts |
Poland has released commemorative banknotes. Canadian ones would be just as legitimate. So long as printings were kept low, and occurrences of such issues would be few and with a decent amount of time between them, and so long as they commemorated something of import...then I believe the Canadian dollar would still be taken seriously. Anything shy of that, then you'd be seeing a real chance of the currency's legitimacy questioned.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
867 Posts |
Well, it probably technically would be the Bank of Canada to issue commemorative notes, and they have in 1935 with the $25 note and 1967 with the $1...
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5404 Posts |
The Bank of Canada might as well join the RCM circus. Hope the BOC doesn't follow our forum , just might be too good an idea to pass up! |
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Pillar of the Community
798 Posts |
Groszy, exactly my thoughts. Now you would think they would do something like this in 2067 but by then money will be all different and stuff. Aren't bills kind of commemorative already?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2519 Posts |
I don't really bother, but I hope they don't make several new designs every year for all the denominations. Just several years once for an important event would be okay. I find it more acceptable on coins since they are smaller denomination and sometimes you don't even need to look at them to know which are which denomination because they have different sizes. For banknotes, having the design changed too often will be rather confusing since most of us rely on the colour and design of the banknote to know their denomination, not the size or number printed on it.
Here's an example from 2005: Indonesia changed the Rp 10000 from a shade of brown to magenta. The Rp 100000 note is red. People complained that it was easy to pull the wrong note out. They finally changed it in 2010 to a blueish purple.
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Valued Member
Germany
85 Posts |
I think bills are something that has to be changed carefully - I remember when the US 100 changed slightly (a bigger Ben, etc) There were people from Kazakhstan to Peru panicking that their cache of dollars in the mattress was no longer good...
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
3692 Posts |
OOps, I meant to say the Bank of Canada, not the RCM.... What a novice blunder. |
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Valued Member
Canada
147 Posts |
Would these be like the gold foil banknote issues of Antigua and Barbuda? Though its funny that you did say the RCM, because it would be neat if they issued silver bars engraved with 1935 designs in appropriate dimensions. Only for an appropriate anniversary, mind you. |
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Posted 10/20/2014 12:15 am
