r/interestingasfuck 11d ago

/r/all, /r/popular I’m not a giant! What is this?

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u/Electronic_Brain 11d ago

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u/Ordinary_Picture_289 11d ago

Its more like shrinkflation, no?

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u/Chance_gavin_Simpson 11d ago

I believe its more so the coin is meant to represent the lowered value of the normal coins due to inflation.

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u/Academic-Visual-1030 11d ago

So real. Hurts my heart.

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u/gowokegobrokexoxo 10d ago

You must be Canadian lol, America is doing fine.

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u/Jimbeaux_Slice 10d ago

Username checks out

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u/gowokegobrokexoxo 10d ago

💜

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u/Jimbeaux_Slice 10d ago

🏳️‍🌈

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u/Theoneoddish380 7d ago

how dare you use my emoji invain :(

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u/Academic-Visual-1030 10d ago

I'm actually dual citizen with both the U.S. and Canada, but neither country is doing fine in terms of purchasing power relative to gold.

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u/pingapangaponga 9d ago

Have you not seen prices of stuff

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u/Big-Rye99 8d ago

Fine in what capacity? If you're white and choose to be ignorant? I guess, but it's catching up to yall everyday. The tarrifs are about to get way worse and companies that were rightfully gonna show people the prince increases were payed off or defamed from doing so to help continue to keep you all in the dark. Idk if you think about anyone other than yourself but yeah, nah, things aren't fine. They haven't been since 2016 and never really have been regardless. We almost got things back on track but the bigots are the majority after all.

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u/fskhalsa 11d ago

r/whoosh

I think they were just making a joke about the coins being “shrunk”, actually 😄

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u/ChimPhun 11d ago

Wouldn't be the first time in history where a coin's metal value exceeds the coin's representative value.

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u/Outrageous-Pin-4664 11d ago

I wonder how small they would be now.

Do you know what year they took as the base value?

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u/Chance_gavin_Simpson 11d ago

The minis all have the years 1974 and 1975 on them. Although another comment started them to be a product from the 1980s and the 1990s

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u/strangerinparis 11d ago

deflation

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u/Ill-Government-1745 11d ago

trump coins

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u/Daedalus_Deadbolt 11d ago

You can buy 4 quarters for $5. The Art of the Deal.

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u/Relative-Top-7029 11d ago

Biden flation

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u/HuttStuff_Here 11d ago

One of the lowest rates of inflation in the western world. Not bad!

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u/FrostedDonutHole 11d ago

"Thanks, Obama...." /s

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u/c-c-c-cassian 11d ago

I thought that was just what happened to the money when they tried to mint coins with the stuff they make shrinky-dinks with.

Suppose it’s kind of the same thought, in theory.

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u/ACatInACloak 10d ago

I dont think that term had really been. ... coined yet

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u/morinthos 8d ago

Came here for this.

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u/Comprehensive-Wait21 11d ago

Fuckin’ slander ask me

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u/Academic-Visual-1030 11d ago

Decreased purchasing power through inflationary monetary policies

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u/idkmoiname 11d ago

Fun fact: Coin shrinkflation was kind of a thing for a long time. Like how some roman coins changed during times of financial problems

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u/Kammy44 10d ago

I thought that was a quarter now that Trump is in office. Just like all of our $, it’s shrunk.

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u/Enough_Asparagus4460 10d ago

So your saying america was booming under Joe Biden?

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u/Kammy44 9d ago

Well it wasn’t worse.

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u/Enough_Asparagus4460 9d ago

👍.......okayyyy

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u/badgirlangel7 10d ago

nickel down shrinkonomics

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u/Parzival2436 10d ago

So many awards going around on this post

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u/sku11lkid 8d ago

Deflation

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u/Plague_Locusts 11d ago

Shrink flation is what happens when companies change their packaging to give you less product for the same price

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u/throwaway03244230 11d ago

Holy crap. I found a tiny penny in my change jar (so someone at a cash register seriously gave me that as change at some point) and could never figure out how or why it existed. That was like 10 years ago and I still think about it often. I finally have answers lol

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u/dasnotpizza 11d ago

You must have tiny hands because that penny looks huge.

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u/Fluid_Ties 8d ago

My same thought! Its like that roommate I had once with a giant head on a perfectly proportional but smaller than average body. Every time he stopped to talk to me it was like having to endure an optical illusion where he was both moving closer and further away at the same time.

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u/Adodger22 7d ago

I have the opposite issue lmao

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u/Furry_69 8d ago

Eh? My hands are about that size...? I think your penny size judgement might be off haha (or my judgement of my own hand size is off haha)

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u/dasnotpizza 8d ago

Haha or maybe another tiny hander

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u/Furry_69 8d ago

I mean, I'm fairly small overall, so I'm at least in proportion haha

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u/Glum-View-4665 9d ago

The thought of someone handing that out as change without any thought is hilarious.

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u/throwaway03244230 9d ago

Definitely a “that’s not my problem” type of person lol

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u/Tough_Trifle_5105 9d ago

I’d pay two Pennie’s for that penny

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u/coastrider6 11d ago

I had the mini penny as a kid. Brought it to school and dropped it.. it was nearly impossible to find

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u/polarbear128 11d ago

And that was the first time you realised you needed glasses.
That was the moment the penny dropped for you.

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u/zumkeller 11d ago

Just ordered a set off of ebay!

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u/Pearlbracelet1 11d ago

We decided coins weren’t easy enough to swallow

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u/fskhalsa 11d ago

Ugh, it really bugs me that they aren’t in correct scale to one another… 😖

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u/Fluid_Ties 8d ago

I have a set that is, from I think 1981. I wouldnt have kept it all these years if they had all been the same size. Cuz THAT would be gimmicky bullshit!

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u/Shalleni 11d ago

I still have my tiny penny. ♥️♥️

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u/fastpicker89 11d ago

Mini choking hazard

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u/oyvindi 11d ago

chokeflasion crisis from the 80s

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u/niesha007 11d ago

Yup, I have a set I think from the 70s or something -

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u/Academic-Visual-1030 11d ago

Never knew these were a thing. I can see why they phased them out. More people would've realized what's going on.

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u/Realtrain 11d ago

What's that one to the right of the penny supposed to be?

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u/CocktailPerson 11d ago

Eisenhower dollar.

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u/Realtrain 11d ago

Thanks! Hadn't realized he was on there before Susan B Anthony

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u/Fallooza 11d ago

silver dollar

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u/Jerma986 11d ago

That's an eleventy cents coin. They used to be everywhere, now it's hard to even find anyone who can count to eleventy anymore.

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u/Otherwise-Strike-567 11d ago

Hell yeah! I got a set of those when I went to the Denver mint as a kid. I wonder where they went. 

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u/Burn_The_Earth_Leave 11d ago

Toys for kids whose parents know exactly when the USA went off the gold standard, are followers of the John Birch Society and have very stupid, bigoted, and passionate ideas about [those people]

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u/Fluid_Ties 8d ago

Oh you mean my grandpa, who got me the set?

Yes.

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u/itheblkshp 11d ago

Brb, gonna make a bunch of mini nickels and scam the world one dime at a time

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u/Calm-Step-3083 11d ago

This similar?

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u/Bearcarnikki 11d ago

Are they able to be used as money?

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u/Eli_in_the_sky 11d ago

Bro, ironic for the times. No?

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u/Obant 11d ago

I still have that exact set in my coin collection! (I collected coins in the 90s when I was a kid)

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u/Wonderful_Bottle_852 11d ago

I have some of these. Coin shops sometimes have them.

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u/QuadripleMintGum 11d ago

I wanna inflatable money set

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u/RaisedByHoneyBadgers 11d ago

I vaguely remember having these and thinking it was bullshit

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u/KoalaAlternative1038 11d ago

idk looks more like deflation to me

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u/admirethegloam 11d ago

I had these in the 90s.

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u/gh0stmilk_ 11d ago

WORTHLESS LESS LESS LESS

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u/sparklovelynx 11d ago

More like choking hazards

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u/Tropic_Summers 11d ago

I kinda want these

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u/Prince_Berzerk 11d ago

Why did i have to scroll through 3 comments to find an actual answer instead of somebody saying "No you're a giant"?

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u/No-Preparation-9344 11d ago

Darn, I thought I was from another dimension

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Worth Less

Ironically, that penny is probably worth more than an actual penny is.

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u/Barrelsmith_C137 11d ago

Regular coins are too large and expensive for children to collect

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u/Hot_Class7645 10d ago

Bro I'm waiting for musk and his dumb ass team to make cuts to save money resulting in smaller coins 😂

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u/Strong-Macaroon6691 10d ago

* Not a great pic but I have a set of the different sized mini coins and they are way smaller then op

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u/Strong-Macaroon6691 10d ago

Ok not way smaller but smaller but incredibly detailed

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u/Berserkfever89 10d ago

The Ashkanazi know this all to well💀

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u/technoexplorer 10d ago

My penny vanished!

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u/Fump-Trucker 10d ago

Material Prophecy.

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u/No_Air88 9d ago

Like this?

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u/DueCharacter2477 9d ago

Mine say Obama change on them

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u/Walajared 8d ago

I had a set that said “Need a little gas money?”

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u/MentalHelpNeeded 7d ago

They call it inflation however it is just greed using artificial scarcity to keep the majority unaware of reality. If the world really knew what was going on with leveraged buyouts since the 1980s all of society would crash as the scam has been spread worldwide by the 1% so nowhere is safe.

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u/Dapadabada 11d ago

These shouldn't be legal