Hi Pat Its interesting to note the currency in plastic cards. Can you give us the size of those cards.
Madan --- Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Michael and All, > > Here, in Australia, we no longer have 1 cent and two > cent coins. They > disappeared, without protest, a few years ago. > > Our plastic notes, for $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 > work very well and they > are well accepted in the community, as are the $1 > and $2 coins. > > I agree with you about renaming coins in the USA. I > well remember reading > comics from the USA � as a child � and wondering > what was the difference > between a nickel and a dime; I did not know which > was which. It was a bit > like references to a stick of butter in recipes from > the USA. It was only > recently that I found out that a stick of butter is > about 250 grams. > > Cheers, > > Pat Naughtin CAMS > Geelong, Australia > > on 2002-09-11 04.20, Michael G. Koerner at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Subject: [USMA:22157] Re: Off-SI:New > coins-1,5,10,50 cents > >> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:01:20 +0200 > >> From: "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> Your uncle needs a bill redesign too! > > > > Another evolutionary redesign of USA banknotes is > due to begin sometime > > next year. > > > > I would also go to Australian style plastic > instead of the paper (Mexico > > just announced that they will be replacing their > paper banknotes with > > plastic notes, starting with their $20 (20 Peso) > notes). > > > > Further, I would drop our $1 and seldom used $2 > notes in favor of coins. > > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:55 PM > >> Subject: [USMA:22156] Off-SI:New coins-1,5,10,50 > cents > >> > >>> > http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/09/coin.design.ap/index.html > >>> > >>> Uncle Sam planning new designs for 1,5,10 & 50 > cent > >>> coins. > > > > Whatever is decided upon for coin redesign, I > would > > a) drop the 1� and > > b) change the words: "FIVE CENTS", "ONE DIME", > "QUARTER DOLLAR", "HALF > > DOLLAR" and "ONE DOLLAR" to read "5 CENTS", "10 > CENTS", "25 CENTS", "50 > > CENTS" and "1 DOLLAR", respectively. > > > > Unless one can read English _and_ knows what the > words mean, our coins > > are FIENDISHLY difficult to decipher (especially > the Dime). > __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute
