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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Paper Money
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Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 16:22:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 18 16:22:00 1984
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In addition to denominations of paper currency that are uniquely colored,
why not also have them uniquely sized or shaped?  Perhaps that would be
a help to blind people.  It might also reduce mistakes made by retailers.
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This is standard practice in much of Europe.  Personally, I don't like
it.  The big bills get their edges mashed, and the small bills get lost
in the pack.  What I do like is the Dutch (or is it Danish) idea of
putting a sequence of embossed dots on the money so that you can feel
whether you have a 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100-unit bill without looking.

Someone else thought that Canada might have a problem with people
using coloured bits of paper as fake money because people wouldn't
pay attention to the shapes and inscriptions. That doesn't happen.
Money looks like money, and not much else looks like money unless
the forger went to a lot of trouble.
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Martin Taylor
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