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With bills it's the opposite actually. Due to the higher profits in counterfeiting you want faster turnover in high value currency so old designs can be removed from circulation before too many good enough fakes are produced.
That's also one of the factors behind the demise of large denomination bills like the £100 note. The other is that large denomination bills are also used for transferring criminal profits around without leaving paper trails. Anti-money laundering groups have been advocating the retirement of all $100 class bills for years because of that. Other than for Grandma and Grandpa wanting to make a large cash gift in a single bill I've only ever seen $50/100 bills used when selling largish amounts of scrap metal. The latter was ~20 years ago; with various attempts to stop copper theft/etc I've seen over the years since I'm not sure if they can still operate as cash businesses or not.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I can see that, but personally I'm in favor of leaving the denominations alone for the dollar... more small government type stuff I can't get into in the lounge. But, this would make sense as to why there aren't £100 notes, since I was curious about that too.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jersey has one, and there may still be a Scottish one, but England hasn't had one for a couple of decades, now.
They're too expensive. Pound coins cost only a little more to make, but last a thousand times longer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gotcha, good to know this stuff. Thanks.
Jeremy Falcon
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5 is the smallest euro note too.
it's because we didnt need to keep them in supply for tucking into stripper's underwear like what the Americans did.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It's all about the ccontactless payment, you just need to know where to press the card.
Can be unfortunate if you get one that still needs swiping.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Just don't think about where the receipt is printed out.
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What happens if you want to shower a dancer with a bunch of ones though? I mean, what happened to that time honored tradition?
Jeremy Falcon
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She's going to get concussion.
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Good times.
Jeremy Falcon
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They still exist in Scotland, but the only people that use them are beggars as they can hide them in their socks.
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But would they still be accepted as legal tender still, or are they just used as sock padding now?
Jeremy Falcon
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They are in Scotland, not in England, in the same way that English notes aren't legal tender in Scotland. However, whilst English notes are generally accepted in Scotland, Scottish notes are harder to spend in England, it tends to be up to the discretion of the place you're spending them. If you're in the north of England they might get accepted.
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Good to know. Thanks.
Jeremy Falcon
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Apparently[^] they don't think it belongs in an aquarium. On behalf of People Eating Tasty Animals I wholeheartedly endorse this position. Put it back where it can be trapped again and served on a platter with a big bowl of melted butter.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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PETA is a bunch of morons. That is all that needs to be said.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The hell with where it can be trapped. Tank => pot => plate => me. IMHO the best thing you can do to a lobster.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I used to work at an aquarium and PETA tried to start a campaign against us because fish was on the menu in the restaurant! I think they thought that the fishies in the tanks could see their relatives being consumed.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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This is the first time in 20 years that I have spent my birthday in the UK.
Still no cards, only my wife remembered. Both daughters and the 10 million plus Cpians all forgot!
veni bibi saltavi
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We all remembered. We're just all still arguing of the correct Design Pattern for your card.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Plastic, impermeable and with some gin inside?
oh.. and bob with a glass up to cheer
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You didn't send me a card last February!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sit down a moment, Griff.
Now, er, how can I put this?
We, um, we can't send you a card last February, because, well, because there aren't really any Time Lords in CP.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We used to have a Dalek though... that's close enough, right?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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