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Bank notes with one side mostly blank, apart from a small
strip of information along the top or bottom to act as a
security strip. Could be sold in the form of a simple sketch
book. This would encourage folk to be inventive by drawing
maps, scribbling comments, making calculations, creating art
works etc. on the blank side, then sharing their work with
everyone whose hands it passes across. The result would be
a set of money in circulation, with each note being totally
unique, yet still verified by its remaining security devices.
A "message in a bottle" type effect would soon develop,
along with savers of currency that had been decorated with
strange drawings or messages.
Privatize the Penny by Worldgineer
Privatize_20the_20Penny
Many of the annos are relevant [ConsulFlaminicus, Feb 17 2006]
Dollar tracking system, Ive entered 4 wheresgeorge bills
http://www.wheresgeorge.com
[Slaith, Feb 18 2006]
Spock a fin lately?
http://www.frymybac...les.php?articleID=8
Modify a Canadian 5 [Giblet, Feb 20 2006]
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This is daft - croissant! |
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Awesome! Until you're stuck in line behind a granny who doesn't want to spend this dollar because her grandson wrote his name on it, doesn't want to use this dollar because it has my friend's phone number, etc. etc. ... do you take credit cards? |
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Excellent. I like the idea of this for
low-value bank notes. Famous people
could increase the value of the money in
their pocket, simply by signing it. |
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It would end up looking like a wall in a public toilet. |
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Save up the best notes with personalized tags and make a purchase of Jet Set Radio or Marc Ecko's Getting Up. Have a GrAfFiTi covered bun. |
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very cool, I want to start doing it right now. I have decorated checks and real money with rubber stamp images, but this is better. I like that it's //sharing//. |
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(+) I tried clicking the 'for' button many times in rapid succession before the screen changed. Sadly only one of them seems to have taken. |
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Nice - I forsee a policy of only putting
pictures of people on banknotes (e.g.
the Queen, a Founding Father, etc.) if
they already have an amusing
moustache, beard and glasses. |
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I have twice found a customized bill. Both were fairly carefully done, both were religious. |
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The first was literally free. It was on a shelf in a grocery store. There was some sort of religious-tract writing all around the blank margins. I didn't read it, I just used it to buy a bag of beans. I suppose I should have bought booze with it. |
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I found the other in my wallet, with some sort of prayer to St. Jude written on the margins. I kept it in my religious-oddities collection for a few years, then spent it. |
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I have defaced a few bills by inking over the "In God We Trust" but I have never got one with that done to it. I read about a fellow that was blanking out the words, and thought it was a medium-good idea. |
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I forsee this type of idea becoming quite the median for dark guerilla advertising. |
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Sell corporations like B-Buster or H*ME D*EP0T advertising space on the backs. This would lower our tax load (ya right), so we could spend more money @ B-buster or H?me D#p0t |
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Sometimes the predesigned notes are just as fun. See link. |
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Sounds fun, except that if I were a bank that
received a shipment of brand new notes from the
mint, the first thing I'd do is run them through my
printing press and put my own advertising on it.
There wouldn't be any space left for any more citizen
fun after that. |
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That renders them valueless under the "Blank-bank-note"
rules. |
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