Recently visited a country where cash is very much preferred and it was such a breath of fresh air. I thought it would be annoying to have to keep up with the spare change and what not but it was fine and actually felt pretty good. I’ve since started using cash a lot more at home.
I recently had a trip to Japan and had more mixed opinions about it. Mainly because they have a large variety of coins and oh boy do you end up with a lot of them.
It kind of is, but I love the 500 yen coin anyway. It’s the 2nd most valuable common coin in the world (I think) after the 5 Swiss franc, (or at least it is for now as the yen continues to tank, currently worth about $3 USD whereas 10 years ago it was $4 and 15 years ago was over $6). It makes your change jar actually worth decent money (imagine if filling up a 2 liter bottle was worth a couple thousand bucks instead of a few hundred) and it’s kinda fun to have a small change pouch in your pocket worth more than a hundred bucks.
Plus it’s gold colored so you can collect a pile and feel like a pirate
Yeah but at least the lack of heft feels like the trash it is. US pennies are worth shit but want to pretend they’re real coins. Also the 1 yen weighs exactly 1 g and floats on water.
Recently visited a country where cash is very much preferred and it was such a breath of fresh air. I thought it would be annoying to have to keep up with the spare change and what not but it was fine and actually felt pretty good. I’ve since started using cash a lot more at home.
I recently had a trip to Japan and had more mixed opinions about it. Mainly because they have a large variety of coins and oh boy do you end up with a lot of them.
You just need more practice with the Japan Coin Simulator ;)
https://wendal.itch.io/japanese-money-simulator
Theoretically the most coins you should ever have is 15:
4x 1 yen
1x 5 yen
4x 10 yen
1x 50 yen
4x 100 yen
1x 500 yen
Is 15 supposed to be not a lot?
It kind of is, but I love the 500 yen coin anyway. It’s the 2nd most valuable common coin in the world (I think) after the 5 Swiss franc, (or at least it is for now as the yen continues to tank, currently worth about $3 USD whereas 10 years ago it was $4 and 15 years ago was over $6). It makes your change jar actually worth decent money (imagine if filling up a 2 liter bottle was worth a couple thousand bucks instead of a few hundred) and it’s kinda fun to have a small change pouch in your pocket worth more than a hundred bucks.
Plus it’s gold colored so you can collect a pile and feel like a pirate
On the flip side they also have the very low value 1 yen coin which feels like a cheap board game coin when you have it in your hand
Yeah but at least the lack of heft feels like the trash it is. US pennies are worth shit but want to pretend they’re real coins. Also the 1 yen weighs exactly 1 g and floats on water.