Dollar Coins.....what a mess!

Here's a thing which has on occasion caused me to wonder, with the greenback being all the same size, how do blind people tell the difference? Is there some tell-tale texture difference or do they just rely on the honesty of other people?
 
Don't know about blind people using greenbacks as they don't have any braile markings on them.

I loved getting silver dollars as a boy. I wish I had kept every one of them. I've got no issues with a dollar coin and I wish there were more in circulation.

Speaking of plastic money, I have a few bills from both Australia and Paraguay that I saved while on various assignments.

With the inflation and devaluation of the dollar, dollar bills are just so much extra bulk in the wallet with the five dollar bill being the most useful for small purchases and the 20 dollar bill the most common now due to ATM dispensers.
 
Naismith said:
Here's a thing which has on occasion caused me to wonder, with the greenback being all the same size, how do blind people tell the difference? Is there some tell-tale texture difference or do they just rely on the honesty of other people?
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I asked that when I was a wee boy. I was told it was the honor system. That was a long time ago, honor may have died since then.
 
Are Aus or Nz peps never showed up but I did find this.

Australia Polymer series

The first polymer banknotes were issued in 1988 by the Reserve Bank of Australia, specifically polypropylene polymer banknotes to commemorate the bicentenary of European settlement in Australia. All Australian notes are now made of polymer.

Notes are sized according to their denomination, for the visually impaired. They are the same height but of different lengths, in order of their value - $5 being the smallest, $100 the largest. Notes are also colour coded: $5 pink (there are two designs); $10 blue; $20 red; $50 yellow; and $100 green.

As a security feature, these notes contained a transparent window with an optically variable image of Captain James Cook. Every note also has a seven-pointed star which has only half the printing on each side as well as an image of the Australian Coat of Arms only visible when held up to the light. Australian banknotes were the first in the world to use such features.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_dollar#Polymer_series
 
Being here in snow bird country, you really have to keep a watch out on your change. I've gotten many Canadian quarters and dimes and if the store sees them, they won't take them.

It used to be that when a Canadian changed their dollars to US they would still owe money, now it's the other way around.
 
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