# World Currency: Who's on it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 12, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636 "2010-02-12T01:20:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![QuercusMax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/8baadc/32.png) [@QuercusMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuercusMax)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/21 "2010-02-14T04:10:14Z")
My guess would be the Antichrist. (d&r) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/22 "2010-02-14T06:42:36Z")
Of course Homer Simpson’s picture has to be on the global D’oh. 😉 Now just imagine if we put Mohammed’s picture on a bill. A global jihad on money. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/23 "2010-02-14T07:03:27Z")
> [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](#): > > I know the Euro has important buildings on their notes instead. Even “important buildings” turned out to be politically undoable; as **suranyi** mentioned, the euro just uses [more-or-less generic representations of architecture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes#Design). It does some likely that some kind of planetary currency would have to be a least as politically and culturally sensitive as the euro; there’s the whole “graven images” thing for conservative Muslims, along with the whole “one person’s hero is another person’s villain” thing for everyone else. So, abstract designs would probably be the way to go– **Telperion** ’s inventions idea would be pretty nifty. ---
**Author:** ![ZSPHOBIASZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b19c9b/32.png) [@ZSPHOBIASZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZSPHOBIASZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/24 "2010-02-14T07:14:16Z")
They ate trying to make a world currencuy. This has been on going for years. The oprigional bretton woods agreement created the world monetary fund as phase one of this plan. And then they made derivitive funds to make the economy bad so they can say you need one world currency. ---
**Author:** ![chicken\_wire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@chicken\_wire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chicken_wire)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/25 "2010-02-14T07:50:28Z")
> [@QuercusMax](#): > > My guess would be the Antichrist. Or possibly The Beast. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/26 "2010-02-14T12:22:54Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > There’s an old saying (either that or I made it up…) that if there were to be a world currency it would have Homer Simpson’s picture on it. > > That got me thinking, what if there WAS a world currency? Who would be on it that would have appeal/recognition to everyone? To make this a bit easier I’ll limit the bills to… > > 1 > 5 > 10 > 20 > 50 > 100 > 500 > > No change yet…maybe we will get to that depending on how popular this thread is 😛 I’m thinking seven denominations, seven continents, one on each bill. We’ll put Antarctica on the 500 to stop any bickering about who gets the biggest note. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/27 "2010-02-14T12:41:36Z")
Me! Make it an empty oval with reflective or transparent paper. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/28 "2010-02-14T12:47:22Z")
> [@Nancarrow](#): > > Well I think Newton, Darwin and Einstein would pass the test here. Ha. Einstein was a Jew. The fact that he personally wasn’t particularly religious is only going to make things _worse_, if only among different demographics. > [@](#): > > Or to be more accurate, those who consider Darwin and Einstein villains SHOULD be marginalised. Also agreed. But, Hell, if _I_ were the one picking faces for currency—presumably after amassing a robot army, and using the Lincoln Memorial for a throne room—I’d probably just put Robert Oppenheimer on the largest denomination bill. The anti-counterfeiting measures would include glowing strips of tritium. ---
**Author:** ![Hellestal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hellestal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hellestal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/29 "2010-02-14T12:49:09Z")
I say we put Franklin on the 100, to ensure that our rap songs don’t slip into anachronism. > [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > They ate trying to make a world currencuy. No, they’re not. > [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > This has been on going for years. No, it hasn’t. > [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > The oprigional bretton woods agreement created the world monetary fund as phase one of this plan. In abstract terms, the original Bretton Woods _was_ a world currency: Gold. Every major country’s currency was pegged to the precious metal, which kept them fixed compared to each other. Then it collapsed due to its inherent instability. Even the Euro is having stability troubles right now, because the economies of the eurozone aren’t integrated enough to have a single monetary policy that suits the needs of each individual member nation. It’s causing real problems and proving the euroskeptics completely right, with some suggesting that the Euro might break up. There’s no chance in seven hells we’d move to a world currency, when we can’t even integrate a single continent. > [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > And then they made derivitive funds to make the economy bad so they can say you need one world currency. And now we attribute the latest financial crisis to this wondrous, all-powerful conspiracy. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/30 "2010-02-14T14:26:32Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > No one, in my opinion. Exactly. If you want to know what that could look like, look no further than the last batch of Dutch currency, before the switch to the Euro. We really lost some beautiful art work then: [http://www.womansday.com/var/ezflow\_site/storage/images/media/images/08-wd0609-cool-currency/647543-1-eng-US/08-wd0609-cool-currency.jpg](http://www.womansday.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/08-wd0609-cool-currency/647543-1-eng-US/08-wd0609-cool-currency.jpg) [http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/banknotes/netherlands/NetherlandsP98-250Gulden-1985(1986)\_b.jpg](http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/banknotes/netherlands/NetherlandsP98-250Gulden-1985%281986%29_b.jpg) [http://deabeeltjes.deds.nl/ned%20geld/10%20gulden.jpg](http://deabeeltjes.deds.nl/ned%20geld/10%20gulden.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ZSPHOBIASZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b19c9b/32.png) [@ZSPHOBIASZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZSPHOBIASZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/31 "2010-02-14T16:50:16Z")
> [@Hellestal](#): > > There’s no chance in seven hells we’d move to a world currency, when we can’t even integrate a single continent.And now we attribute the latest financial crisis to this wondrous, all-powerful conspiracy. Awesome. No that is not true. There is a thing called the Bilderburg group and they get the people who run all the stuff and they meet and control how things will go. They all agreed to make things bad so they can ssay we need the one world currency. They are very bad. They also want to make poor people dead so they don’t use resources and make global warming. IF they didn’t wan tto do this then why wen they meet they didnt say “this is bad coming on we should make this not happen”? It is cause they mad e aplan. You should do some research and see for yourself. Wake up. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/32 "2010-02-14T16:52:23Z")
> [@ZSPHOBIASZ](#): > > No that is not true. There is a thing called the Bilderburg group and they get the people who run all the stuff and they meet and control how things will go. They all agreed to make things bad so they can ssay we need the one world currency. They are very bad. They also want to make poor people dead so they don’t use resources and make global warming. > > IF they didn’t wan tto do this then why wen they meet they didnt say “this is bad coming on we should make this not happen”? It is cause they mad e aplan. You should do some research and see for yourself. > > Wake up. Are you serious? Like, not yanking chains serious? Because if so, I’ve got a foil hat that’s guaranteed to protect you from the mind control waves, only 400 USD! ---
**Author:** ![ZSPHOBIASZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b19c9b/32.png) [@ZSPHOBIASZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZSPHOBIASZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636/33 "2010-02-14T17:17:01Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > Are you serious? > > Like, not yanking chains serious? > > Because if so, I’ve got a foil hat that’s guaranteed to protect you from the mind control waves, only 400 USD! This is very serious. With a little research you can see the Bilderberg were started by nazi’s and have been planning this. > **[Alex Jones' Endgame](http://www.endgamethemovie.com/)** [http://www.bilderberg.org/bildlist.htm#from](http://www.bilderberg.org/bildlist.htm#from) Also you should read confessions of a corporate hit man to see how the rich countries work to keep the poor ones weak. They do this for the bilderberg group. Also cecil told me that the tinfoil hat would only make the mind control rays more focused. [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2555/do-tinfoil-helmets-provide-adequate-protection-against-mind-control-rays](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2555/do-tinfoil-helmets-provide-adequate-protection-against-mind-control-rays) LOL! I am nobodies fool. Your jokes cant hurt me. Wake up! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-currency-whos-on-it/528636.md?page=1)