Madan: They're not plastic cards. They're the same size and, as far as I can tell, the same thickness as the older paper notes.
They are, of course, much stronger and much more durable. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of M R >Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 15:25 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:22165] Re: Off-SI:New coins-1,5,10,50 cents > > >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 >
