Talk:Complementary currency

message: Do you think we could/should combine this into the article on "alternative currency", and have a redirect?  Perhaps there is a subtle distinction, but this distinction might be too Pedantic to be practical.  I think having two separate pages may end up making it (a) harder for readers to find information, and (b) harder to link related pages to relevant material on these two pages. Cazort 19:28, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: WHY I LIKE TO SPEAK OF COMPLEMENTARY COMMUNITY CURRENCY (ccc)
Thanks for your comments. But keep in mind: In case there are people who fear that monetary activists are out to undermine the national money system we want to assure them that it is not a matter of either/or, this/that, but both/and.
Complementary means that CCC is in addition to the national currency, not as a replacement of it. Growing up in Newfoundland--I was born in 1930--I actually remember the time when banks printed their own paper money.
I am not sure when the practice was stopped, but my father--who died in 1944--and older brothers all worked for an iron ore mining company (Dominion Iron and Steel) on Bell Island, Newfoundland. http://www.bellisland.net
They were paid in paper cash. Some weeks they got Bank Of Nova Scotia paper money; some weeks they got Bank of Montreal paper money. By the way, a forty dollars in bills, plus a few coins with the name Newfoundland stamped on them, was a big weeks' pay in the 1940's. To help pay my way to university http://www.mta.ca I worked for a year, picking rock out of iron ore--cold and dirty work. For a sixty-hour week, I earned thirty-eight dollars and change.
Interestingly, Newfoundland had a 20 cent coin.
By the way, I always agree to disagree, agreeably. 02:47, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why

message: do coupons deserve a mention on this page? For instance, a slip of paper worth a dollar at any McDonalds, or any other gift certificate. McDonalds GCs, in particular, have the same size and shape as US paper money. I had some recently and actually had no trouble at all using one instead of a George Washington away from a McDonalds. So in case the federal reserve somehow collapses, I trust that Ronald McDonald will rise to the challenge of replacing it. Whoopee. 75.87.135.149 (talk) 05:45, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it deserves a mention maybe as illustration. Some of these currencies only have value at the place of issue, but others start to be valuable and used in commerce. Frequent flier miles and gift certificates and Canadian Tire money and bus tokens. It is mentioned in Rethinking Money in detailLietaer, Bernard A. and Dunne, Jacqui. and EBSCOhost.  Rethinking money [electronic resource] : how new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity / Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne  Berrett-Koehler San Francisco  2013.Chickpecking (talk) 21:28, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coupons and Gift Certificates? 

message: Neither of the alternative currency article's two references (in the body of text) appear to use that term. One is about barter and another is (reportedly) about local currencies. All the information applies to complementary currencies (and or local currency, community currency, private currency). Unless the term 'alternative currency' can be referenced the article should be merged. Jonpatterns (talk) 12:32, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: A "complementary currency" has as explicity aim to complement the official currency while an "alternative currency" could be aimed at the replacement of the official currency. (!?) This is what is somehow suggested by the authors of the "alternative currency" article : [When used in combination with or when designed to work in combination with national or multinational fiat currencies they can be referred to as complementary currency.] In any case the lists of currencies at the bottom of both pages are identical. There is another problem that make things worst. Its not clear if "complementary" and/or "alternative" currencies can also be issued by national governments or legal tenders. The "comlementary currency" article suggests that could be but normally not : [It is an agreement to use a medium of exchange that is not usually legal tender.] while the "alternative currency" article suggest clear that can : [they are created by an individual, corporation, or organization, they can be created by national, state, or local governments, or they can arise naturally as people begin to use a certain commodity as a currency.] From the above it looks like a "complementary" is a subcategory of an "alternative". If its so i suggest merge the "complementary" to the "alternative". If the "alternative currency" authors can establish a clear distinction of the two then articles could stay as are now otherwise must be merged. (KosMal (talk) 17:37, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

text: Agreed and  Klbrain (talk) 22:14, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from alternative currency 

message: I rather like this chart that someone created though maybe we should have some guidelines for a currency to "make it in". Should it be above a certain value? the top 20? It could be unweildy if there are 300 included. I also was thinking we could add rows such as "current value in existence" where this is either standardized or in the regions official currency and "velocity of money" though this may not always be available. I filled in some info on the Chiemguaer. Chickpecking (talk) 08:24, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complementary Currency Chart 

message: Why are the official PL, CS, HU etc. listed there?
E.g.
 Bulgarian lev	Regional currency	European Union
?
I have fixed only the PL entry for the actual complementary one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Towarowy_PeKaO Zezen (talk) 09:41, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official national currencies in the list 

message: It seems weird that someone has to point this out, but: the European Union is not yet a sovereign state or a 'country' by any other definition, nor does it currently have any official plans to become one. It's an intergovernmental body, more like NATO, or the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement. It has members that are sovereign states i.e. 'countries', just like how the United States of America is a sovereign state and Canada is a sovereign state; in fact the United Kingdom, listed in the table as a country, is a member of the European Union (at least for the rest of this month).
So describing the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian and Swedish currencies as 'regional' currencies in the 'country' of the European Union is like describing Polish Zloty or British Pounds as 'regional currencies'. They're not that, they're national currencies, just like the Canadian Dollar, Japanese Yen etc.
But if you're creating that table then you're already on Wikipedia, so it's ridiculously easy to look that up...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam Dent (talk • contribs) 08:12, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The EU is not a country... 

message: Can the FarmShare currency be listed in the currencies list ?
See https://www.academia.edu/16673793/FarmShare_Blockchain_Community-Supported_Agriculture FarmShare: Blockchain Community-Supported Agriculture
Genetics4good (talk) 08:27, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:   I agree. "Be bold" is a wikipedia rule :), cheers, SvenAERTS (talk) 12:52, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: FarmShare

message: Hello, I dont see Sardex in the table and I am not at ease enough  to add it. https://www.ft.com/content/cf875d9a-5be6-11e5-a28b-50226830d644 Can somebody do the job?  Reneza (talk) 09:37, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Sardex to be added ?