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t1_iy8gmdm wrote

Small countries have used this trick for ages. You can get Clint Eastwood stamps from Maldives. Gorillas in the Mist stamps from Lesotho. And Bermuda has a coin from the character of Netflix's The Queen.

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t1_iy8icbr wrote

And cute '25 cent' sized coins with pandas on them from North Korea.
Plus dollar sized coins with Elvis from the Marshall Islands

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t1_iybcjw7 wrote

Damn! Claire Foy really has had a meteoric rise to fame, hasn't she?

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t1_iy8wtlz wrote

I've never really understood how you get from "I like Mickey Mouse" to "I will pay as much as I have to to own any object depicting Mickey Mouse."

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t1_iy9clxw wrote

It’s the crushing reality of the profit-driven, soulless world we live in. Defeated by the relentless pressure to succeed, some of us find solace in presenting our worth in Mickey Mouse memorabilia. Many think those mass-produced trophies of mediocre success will be their only legacy, but the rest of us know it will all end up in the trash to be forgotten. Much like the vast majority of humans who came before us.

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t1_iyansq7 wrote

If I don’t get to show off a metric ton of MM merch as my status symbol then what’s this all been about?!

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t1_iy8rrg1 wrote

They SELL them as collectibles. They don’t USE them.

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OP t1_iy9ej12 wrote

Legal tender is legal tender. Whether an individual chooses to use it is up to them.

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t1_iy9ga15 wrote

Your title specifically claims that the coins are used as legal tender, though, not that they simply are legal tender.

There's a difference between being a thing and being used as a thing.

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t1_iy8zwbu wrote

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t1_iy99ftz wrote

They’re legal tender, which is an important tax workaround. (Tl;dr for tax purposes, they are worth face value, rather than market value; this is not legal advice; consult a certified public accountant or financial attorney.)

There is absolutely no way any of these hit circulation.

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t1_iy9fujc wrote

Mister Deleted Comment seems to have had a difficult time distinguishing between the concepts of being a thing, and being used as a thing.

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t1_iy99gef wrote

But that destroys their value as collectibles! Oh, the humanity!

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t1_iy9aagt wrote

So are my Canadian glow in the dark dinosaur coins. That doesn't mean I'm actually going to use them.

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t1_iy9rzjm wrote

I’ve been to Niue and they didn’t have this, they used the New Zealand dollar as their currency.

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t1_iyaudi2 wrote

They don't use these at all. They license the franchise to produce coins under their government name to private mints.

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t1_iya5n8e wrote

It would be funny if they were sued over copyright infringement only to be paid with the coins depicting the character they were sued over

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t1_iy99lns wrote

How do they get around the copyright laws?

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t1_iy9d8db wrote

If the government is issuing these coins they either don't care about that kind of copyright law or they don't have them.

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t1_iy9t3fs wrote

It's possible that they simply pay a Licence fee to Disney.

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t1_iy9fasp wrote

Disney and Nintendo do not fuck around when it comes to their IP.

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