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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2019 8:54:22 GMT -5
Oh wait - I see Confessor meant that the £1 bill was still in use until 1988, not that that particular image was a 1988-isued bill. here's a Canadian $2 from 1987, in which the Queen definitely looks a little older:  Here's an early 70s bill for comparison:  That particular design for the old £1 note must've come out in the early 80s. I remember the design changing when I was a little kid. So, that portrait of the Queen would've been circa late 70s I guess. So your memory would be pretty much spot on. EDIT: Just Googled it and I'm a few years off: that final £1 note design came out in 1978, so yeah, definitely a mid-70s depiction of the Queen. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 16, 2019 8:55:02 GMT -5
I still miss the £1 note. Last used here in Britain as legal tender in 1988. **sniff**  With each passing year it's becoming more nostalgic to me to see the image of the Queen as a young woman. This looks like it's from around the same time as the picture we had on our school-room wall in the early 70s . I’m no monarchist, but I must admit... the queen looks hawt on that bill! |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2019 9:02:34 GMT -5
With each passing year it's becoming more nostalgic to me to see the image of the Queen as a young woman. This looks like it's from around the same time as the picture we had on our school-room wall in the early 70s . I’m no monarcist, but I must admit... the queen looks hawt on that bill! How dare you! That's Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, you scoundrel! Pistols at dawn for you and I, sir. Don't worry ma'am, I'll defend your honour against this damned Colonial barbarian. [[singing]]: "God save our gracious Queen, God save our noble Queen..." |
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 16, 2019 15:58:03 GMT -5
She can sic the corgis on you!  I have an old $2 Canadian with what was termed a devil face in the Queen's hair. They quickly replaced them with modified bills but there is one devil face version for all the denominations up to the $1000. I would be worried this could happen to Thomas Jefferson!   |
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Post by spoon on Feb 17, 2019 1:21:18 GMT -5
They’re still out there. My boys have a passel of them because the county fair gives them out as premiums. My wife works at a bank, and they get a large number of requests for them leading up to Christmas, as people use them as "unique monetary gifts. In a bit of synchronicity, I just read an article a few days back about Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, who is obsessed with $2 bills, something he picked up from Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, both of whom carry large stacks of $2 bills to pay for almost everything they do. -M Yup. I used to thought for a few years that 2 dollar bills were discontinued, because I hadn't seen any in a while. But I later learned it's just a popular misconception, because they are printed in fewer numbers and I guess some people hoard them. The 2 dollar bill was discontinued at one point, but it was reintroduced in 1976, three years before I was born. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Feb 17, 2019 1:53:46 GMT -5
I think it's one of those things that's hard to predict or imagine, at an individual level. I thought Canada's getting rid of $1 and $2 bills was a pointless move when I heard it on the news back in the 90s (was it?), but now that I've lived with the coins, I don't mind it at all. My only disappointment was that when they brought out the $2 coins a few years after the $1 'loonies' (because of the animal's image imprinted on them) - everybody started calling them 'toonies' (or 'twonies', if you prefer): I thought it was a great opportunity to instead re-introduce the old coinage term of 'doubloons' and even tried to swim against the tide for a few months but soon saw it was a hopeless struggle. What's the smallest bills in the UK now, £5 ? They do have £1 and £2 coins, don't they? (pleased to find my keyboard allows me to use the £ symbol).
[edit:] forgot to ask, what do they have in the States now? - $1 bills and no $2 bills? or have they switched to any coins yet for those lower denominations?
It would have been in the late 80's that we got rid of the one dollar bill and, I think, it was in 1996 that we started using the two dollar coin. Actually, about three years ago or so we got rid of the penny as well. When the toonie - aw, what the hell, 'doubloon' - came out, I remember 'the moonie' was suggested as a name for the coin since it featured "The Queen with a bear behind". Oh, and we haven't had a thousand dollar bill in about 17/18 years either. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 18, 2019 6:19:57 GMT -5
This is one of the most unexpectedly educational threads ever: I had no idea how much the Queen's image differed from Canadian to UK notes or bills. Could one of our NZ members (not sure if we have any Australians or other Commonwealth posters any more) contribute any further variations?
Also, first I ever heard about the devil's head in the hair - but of course now it's impossible to un-see. How did anyone ever catch that? Without the visual aid provided by that coloured detail I'd never have seen it. And how did it get there in the first place?
There's another point that comes to mind about all this but it's a bit peripheral to the discussion so far and perhaps better suited to the political thread - if there's any space there for anything other than comments on current USAffairs.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 9:22:52 GMT -5
I'm really surprised of the low turnout of voting ...
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 19, 2019 12:31:50 GMT -5
[edit:] forgot to ask, what do they have in the States now? - $1 bills and no $2 bills? or have they switched to any coins yet for those lower denominations?
In the states we had a Dollar Coin and that's was unpopular for lots of people here and many of us (except me) do not care for at all.  It's called the Sacagawea Dollar. I'm from Rochester, NY, where Susan B. Anthony lived for years (in fact, there's a Susan B. Anthony house there which I once visited!) and I recall that the Susan B. Anthony wasn't terrible popular, either. I guess some people thought it looked too much like a quarter.  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 19, 2019 12:33:18 GMT -5
With each passing year it's becoming more nostalgic to me to see the image of the Queen as a young woman. This looks like it's from around the same time as the picture we had on our school-room wall in the early 70s . I’m no monarchist, but I must admit... the queen looks hawt on that bill! On top of that, I guess she's a trained mechanic. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 19, 2019 12:35:26 GMT -5
I'm with Cei-U! on this one, I'm sort of on the fence with a maybe. I do sort of like $2 bills and I even used to collect them, a little, but I haven't actually seen one in years and I'm not sure how much we need them. I think the government would prefer a $2 coin because they last much longer and so are in the long run cheaper.
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 19, 2019 14:54:54 GMT -5
I'm really surprised of the low turnout of voting ... It didn't feel right voting in a U.S. election as a Canadian.  |
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Post by rberman on Feb 19, 2019 15:25:14 GMT -5
1) No need for more $2 bills.
2) Discontinue $1 bills also.
3) Mint a lot of dollar coins.
4) Discontinue pennies.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 15:34:55 GMT -5
I'm really surprised of the low turnout of voting ... It didn't feel right voting in a U.S. election as a Canadian. Understand ... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 15:47:05 GMT -5
1) No need for more $2 bills. 2) Discontinue $1 bills also. 3) Mint a lot of dollar coins. 4) Discontinue pennies. 1) and 2) ... I can see where you are coming from and not having both $1 and $2 bills ... 3) and 4) ... In order to get $1 coins you have to get rid of pennies ...it would be difficult to do in the USA when you have a much larger population base; in Canada in the year 2012; they did that and managed quite well without them. Personally, I think pennies should be banned in USA and the cost of copper is getting to be quite expensive. Both Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollar coins being unpopular ... we need someone to make it work and that alone would be a tall order to sell. I like your thinking here. |
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