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Star Trek coins are now legal tender in Canada
lazarus51166
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http://nerdist.com/star-trek-money-is-now-legal-tender-in-canada/
Not that any store anywhere in this country would ever accept a $10 coin for any reason, let alone a star trek one. They'd kick you out or call the cops, claiming some kind of fraud. But they're now supposedly official legal tender.
Not that any store anywhere in this country would ever accept a $10 coin for any reason, let alone a star trek one. They'd kick you out or call the cops, claiming some kind of fraud. But they're now supposedly official legal tender.
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I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
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Indeed. Case in point: the $1300 solid gold $200 emblem that sold out almost immediately. Apparently quite a few people are bad at math
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Because they're loons.
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
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Ah, but that's the genius of it. For every time a person looks at one of these coins there's a possibility that they will think, "In Star Trek, they don't have money." Given enough time, you get this collective thought process that takes Star Trek's economy into mind. Eventually people begin questioning (moreso anyways) the use of money. With some amount of luck enough people will be inspired at the same time to take that first step toward what that coin represents. Why, in a future time that little trinket may be found in a museum with a plaque describing how, rather fittingly, this was one of the final new currencies developed before human society pushed toward a true cashless society.
Or they're just comemerative coins because its the TOS Anniversary this year. They may be "Legal Tender" but its all just for collectors willing to shell out the money for these coins.
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