Whoa! My George Washington Dollar Coin is Talking to Me, Man!

What if someone came up to you and insisted that his money audibly speaks to him? What if that person then elaborated on what the George Washington on his dollar coin tells him? As you scooted away from such an individual, you would lament that this unfortunate soul was unable to obtain the psychiatric care he so desperately needed.

Now thanks to the National Collector’s Mint you too can hear voices from your pocket change without the need for LSD, peyote, or magic mushrooms:

This 2008 George Washington Talking Dollar Coin was issued by the government of Liberia, the small African country well known to stamp and coin collectors for its unusual collectibles. George Washington would no doubt be honored to know his visage was emblazoned on a gimmicky trinket peddled on TV infomercials. (By the way, I wonder where producers of the commercial got all that old public domain George Washington black-and-white movie footage. )

One thing is certain: The phrase “Money talks” will never be the same again.