The Wire

February 2, 2000 10:29 AM

The Wire has just posted an article about the new Sacagawea dollar coin and the Federal goverment's attempts to promote it through Wal Mart and boxes of Cheerios. These days, it seems, even money wont sell itself anymore.
posted by sixfoot6 (3 comments total)

unfortunately that link doesn't work because wire.ap.org prevents you from linking directly to content, links must go through other news sources that lease (i believe) their content.
posted by palegirl at 12:27 PM on February 2, 2000

yeah I noticed that too, same thing with an AP link on Cam's page. Stupid HTTP_REFERRER sniffers...
posted by mathowie at 12:34 PM on February 2, 2000

From what I'm learning as a design undergrad and my gut feeling is that our (US) currency sucks--along with our postage. Take a look at Swiss stuff if you want to see good looking, designed, useable, secure stuff.
http://www.post.ch/e/stamps/stamps.html
http://users.hol.gr/~friar/frameleft.htm (has scans of currency)
http://www.sbb.ch/index_e.htm
http://www.sbb.ch/index_e.htm
are a few pages I just found if interested.

posted by greyscale at 6:50 PM on February 2, 2000