There should be some country where they use ball bearings for their coin currency. Every country’s coins are flat. Why not have them be round? It would be fun to have a handful of ball bearing coins in your pocket. They could even have inscriptions on them.
I got this idea after seeing a collection of little metal balls inside a co-worker’s drawer (as seen in the photo). It would be really cool if these ball coins were metallic so they could stick together and you could make sculptures out of them.
In fact, I will now accept ball bearings as currency. If anyone owes me any money, I’ll gladly take them. The conversion rate depends on the weather of the day.
I think you would like Buckyballs – or these cheaper Magnet Balls (sneaky amazon referral link included!)
Cool! I just bought some Magnet Balls from your link! $18.95 and free shipping. That’s just 8.7 cents per ball.
For serious?! You should value them at $0.10 and start using them as currency. It’s a revolution!
Too many cashiers give change in the following order: dollar bills, then coins. So if ball bearings were used as coinage, then people would be dropping their change all the time. Of course this issue would be resolved if cashiers simply provided change in the proper order of coins, then dollar bills. The palm of a hand servers as a better landing location for change than does a piece of paper in the palm of a hand.
I agree, moose. It’s completely silly how cashiers give you the dollars first, and then the change. Do you suppose in Europe they do the opposite? They put their days before the months, so maybe in Europe they hand over change then the dollar bills.
This is one of the things I don’t have to deal with, since I almost never pay with cash. 😛