z011@dalcs.UUCP (Colin Pye) (01/15/84)
<someday, people will miss this> I can remember a trip to the States that I was on a few years ago. One of the people with me bought a $10 item in a store, paid for it with a $20 bill, and got a $50 bill as change! My point: Canadian money, which is more colorful, is *much* easier to recognise than American money. Who could get a red $50 confused with a purple $10, or a green $1? Failing all else, there is a great possibility for trivia. Does anybody out there know what color a $1000 bill is? -- _______ | O | From the disk of | o | |_____| Colin Pye Net address: ...{utcsrgv,dartvax}!dalcs!z011 Where in the world: Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia
thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson) (01/15/84)
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I remember when we (Canada) changed from one color money to multi-
colored confetti, and the problems the ensued because the one and the twenty
dollar bills were similar. People may have made have made mistakes back in
the "old" days of monocolored bills, but they seem to have made just as many
with the confetti if not more. The fact is that back when there was just one
color of bill people had to be more careful, introducing multicolored money
encouraged people to slack off in terms of observing the precise denomination
of the bill they were handling.
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Halifax, Nova Scotiammt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (01/17/84)
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I can remember a trip to the States that I was on a few years ago. One of
the people with me bought a $10 item in a store, paid for it with a $20
bill, and got a $50 bill as change! My point: Canadian money, which is
more colorful, is *much* easier to recognise than American money. Who
could get a red $50 confused with a purple $10, or a green $1?
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When the new greenish $20's came out a few years ago, I got four of them
in change when I bought a small item with a $5. I showed the man and asked
him if he really meant to do it. He looked and said "sure". So I got him
to look again, and he was horrified. Then he found that almost all
the "$1" bills in his water-tumbler full of change were $20s. I don't
know who made the original error, or who eventually made the profit.
I know I got four $1 in the end.
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Martin Taylor
{allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmtlab@qubix.UUCP (Larry Bickford) (01/17/84)
Different-colored bills would have avoided the problem a friend of mine
had recently. Among the 20's he got when he cashed his check at the bank
was a $1 bill altered to look like a $20 bill!
If the teller's supervisor finds out, I don't think that teller is going
to have a job much longer. Tellers are *supposed* to check each bill
that comes in, at least to make sure that it's the right kind of bill
(the banner on a twenty is distinctly different than that on a one).
However, if we go to multi-color money, people may rely on the color so
much that someone might start passing colored paper for bills. I don't
know what Canada's experience has been with that.
Larry Bickford, {sun,amd70,decwrl,ittvax}!qubix!lablmaher@uokvax.UUCP (01/23/84)
#R:dalcs:-33400:uokvax:3800007:000:574 uokvax!lmaher Jan 21 15:55:00 1984 (posting from a friend's account while uok is down) I doubt that the teller lost her job just because one counterfeit bill got past her. Having worked as a teller, I know that $20 bills come in in huge quantities from business deposits, and the procedure for counting them involves bending the ends back, not taking the packets apart and inspecting the centers, which would take forever. Thus the practice of tearing the corners off a $20 and pasting them onto a $1. The clerk at the store should've caught it, though. Carl ..!uokvax!uok!crigney ..!duke!uok!crigney
mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams XT/DU) (01/27/84)
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 ...{decvax,phillabs}!mcvax!enea!erix!mike