Hacker News with Generative AI: Currency

Don't Bet Against the Dollar (bloomberg.com)
America’s growing and dynamic economy means that global demand for the US currency will continue to be strong.

Economy, Finance, Currency, United States

6 points by paulpauper 22 days ago | 5 comments

Using Euro coins as weights (2004) (rubinghscience.org)
Here is a cheap way to obtain a set of standard weights, for measuring weights up to about 100 gram, to an accuracy of about 0.5 gram : Use the coins of the currency of your country. Thus one can make use of the fact that these coins are fabricated in mass production, and because of that have not only a constant shape and size, but also a constant and accurately fixed weight.

DIY, Science, Measurement, Currency

183 points by Tomte 32 days ago | 185 comments

Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009) (freakonomics.com)
Dubner thinks we should do away with the penny.

Economics, Currency, Finance

61 points by jawns 46 days ago | 164 comments

Canadian Tire Money (wikipedia.org)

Canada, Currency, History, Retail

37 points by peter_d_sherman 106 days ago | 27 comments

Argentina to sell dollars on parallel market as part of anti-inflation drive (reuters.com)

Argentina, Economics, Inflation, Currency

4 points by JumpCrisscross 130 days ago | 5 comments

Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019) (cnn.com)