Panamanian Quarters
At some point in Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett proposes a thought experiment involving the fact that Panama's quarters are identical in size and weight to American quarters - which I had always taken as a little necessary fiction for his intentionality narrative, but I found a Panamanian quarter at work the other day, and its actually basically identical to the US Quarter! Crazy! I guess it probably has something to do with the US secretly owning and operating Panama...
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on the front is a profile of Balboa on the back is a bird with spread wings sitting on what I presume is Panama's national shield.
You'd think there would be the potential for parking meter fraud on a massive scale here. I can see the Miami drug-runner types in wraparound sunglasses now -- flying to tiny airstrips, looking around cooly but warily, exchanging ludicrously heavy briefcases full of loose change...
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