Totally making up for the utterly annoying one and two dollar coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has created a series of limited edition glow-in-the-dark quarters featuring the likenesses of dinosaurs discovered in the country’s western provinces.
Google is fond of reworking existing concepts in modern ways; you only need to look at HUD glasses and autonomous cars to know that. But at one point in time, it was also mulling the idea of revolutionizing the economy by creating its own currency.
I don’t know how they did it, but an eagle-eyed Walmart cashier in Lexington, Kentucky somehow managed to foil Michael Anthony Fuller’s attempt to pay for a purchase with a $US1 million bill he made.
Niue may be a small island nation in the middle pacific, but collectors around the world are lining up for the country’s upcoming Star Wars coins depicting Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Princess Leia, amongst other characters. And get this: the coins have boxes with sound effects, like a jet taking off for the Millennium Falcon coin.
