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thefridayfive

Do you like the look of your country's currency (bills and coins)?

Depends. I really like the older paper currency, that the one dollar bill is still in the style of. The newer stuff just doesn't seem as pretty. On whole, the coins are good, except I like the JFK fifty cent piece, and the Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea dollar coins. The portraits on the presidential dollar coins are hideous.

Regardless of their actual value, do you like bills or coins better?

Coins. It feels more satisfying paying people in coinage, for some reason

What is your favorite foreign currency? And why?

Probably Canadian, as it's mixed so often with American currency.

Do you collect coins or bills? Elaborate.

I like to hold onto currency that I get that's out of the norm, yet I get in normal transactions. So I have a two dollar bill, a fifty-cent piece, some of the different nickels that they've put out recently, some 1976 coins, and foreign currency that gets mixed in with the American stuff. Mostly it's Canadian, but I've gotten a twenty-five cent piece from Panama and some other odd coins too.

Do you think human society could make do completely without money? Explain.

Human society did without currency just fine, and quite a few places continue to do just fine without it. It would be harder to go without money in Western society, as it's harder to compensate workers for their job. You could get paid in tires from your tire factory, but a comunity only needs so many tires, and how would you work out how many tires you need to trade to the doctor to get a flu shot?