pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoThe problem with adding forgery prevention features to paper money is that people could just forge the old version of the bill.message-squaremessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down114
arrow-up1-7arrow-down1message-squareThe problem with adding forgery prevention features to paper money is that people could just forge the old version of the bill.pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoMaybe the US is weird then? Seems like old money is always valid: https://www.uscurrency.gov/acceptance-and-use-older-design-federal-reserve-notes
minus-squareTheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 days agoYeah in the UK old currency is fazed out in less than a year. £1 coins changed in 2016 and it only took a few months till the old design was invalid
minus-squareTheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 days agoThere’s an overlap where both are valid for a few months and you can trade them in at post offices and banks but after that period is up it’s just tough luck I guess
Maybe the US is weird then? Seems like old money is always valid:
https://www.uscurrency.gov/acceptance-and-use-older-design-federal-reserve-notes
Yeah in the UK old currency is fazed out in less than a year. £1 coins changed in 2016 and it only took a few months till the old design was invalid
Wait, then how do you deal with that?
There’s an overlap where both are valid for a few months and you can trade them in at post offices and banks but after that period is up it’s just tough luck I guess
That’s stupid lol