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The different banknote sizes are an accessibility feature for blind people to be able to tell the difference and the colours are chosen so that people with colour-blindness can still tell them apart. They're very well thought out.
True, bue you needed with the first serie to put them around your middle finger to know their width, and so value (100, 200 and 500 have the same width but come on, they're not ommonly used)
With the second serie, the tactile stripes allows blinf people to recognize a note more easily, the 5-ish (5 and 50) notes have no gap in the stripe, the 1-ish (10 and 100) have 1 gap in the stripe, and the 2-ish (20 and 200 have two). The window/gate shape is also hollowed in paper under the holographic stripe, and can be easily recognised by touching.
Why would they be made in a certain way for colour blindness wouldn't they just look at the value number 🤷
@@saff_cozzie Yes, but not in a pileup or in a wallet. Different sizes and clearly different colors helped for this case.
@@saff_cozzieGives extra security 👍
@@saff_cozzie becourse that is not what they are selected for the colours are selected to make it easier for ppl with limited vision who cannot read the number ^^ though you might aswell use colours that ppl who are colour blind can differentiate as ppl with colourblindness can also become visually em-pared
I once asked an american friend about the dollar bills.
He replied very lanconic: You know, we got a REALLY good deal on green ink.
I once met an american in my country in northern Europe, he had saved money whole childhood so he can come to travel in Europe and he told me that our money looks like a childrens money :D and that American is more serious :D I laughed soo hard :D now that I have visited US myself I would say that I like EUR much more than a $ , dollars look all the same
@@HK-gm8peif you look for the Dutch gulden that’s more like Monopoly money but very difficult to copie a lot of technics used for these billets are used for the euro
Fun fact: I think the Netherlands actually build those bridges afterwards over some small rivers etc.. Those cheeky Bastards can now claim "Yea it came all from us". But it was funny when it was revealed.
In Spijkenisse (village in the Netherlands) they build the bridges in small. There are some videos about it on CZcams
As a fellow European i can say, those pesky dutch!!!
That was just funny what "we" did 😂😂😂🇳🇱
@@stephanos2758I wouldn't say pesky, the Dutch are something special as all other European people, each one in it's own way. That is why I like to be European, diversity!
@@jane2902 alright chill. i was making a joke
The only really boring thing about €Euro notes is not having enough of them.
The best thing about the notes all being different sizes and clearly contrasting colors is that if you have a bunch of different ones in your wallet, like 5s, 10s, 20s and 50s, it makes it super easy to find the one you need at the moment, you dont have to take out the entire wad and flip through it, you just look in your wallet and grab the ones you need (specially if you're a bit OCD like me and prefer to keep them sorted by value in your wallet :P)
Also, even the 100 and 200 ones aren't THAT big so at least in my experience, they dont really stick out of your wallet like you were concerned about, unless of course you have a really small wallet :P
OCD....me too. The Queen must be facing out and different denominations be in order i.e. lowest to highest! 🤪👍🇬🇧
I know what you mean, I'm also sorting the bills by value... and the reflecting stripes have to be in one direction, so they're all facing the same way... When you need 65€, grab a 50, a 10 and a 5... The sorting makes it easier and faster.
and don’t forget Braille! So that blind people don't get ripped off when shopping, that's why and the different sizes....
and the different coin edges make it easier for blind people to distinguish between them
Yeah, it is very handy as you just open and know where exactly 10, 20 or 50 will be in wallet (and I do like to have "similar" number of each in wallet just because... it looks sooo cool with all sizes (okay, 5 probably is tiny bit too small for my taste... (that is what she said, hehe)
I would say 100 and 200 are definitely too big for a regular guys wallet you keep in your back pocket. I hate them. 50 is the max I'm ok carrying.
Euro banknotes and coins are developed in such a way that blind and partially sighted people (red-green blindness too) can handle them with confidence.
The bills having different sizes isn't just for accessibility but also for safety. The paper used requires specific manufacturing processes and it's generally impossible to obtain for anyone other than the governments. A counterfeiting trick that is (physically) possible to do with bank notes that are the same size is getting a bunch of small ones, bleaching them and reprinting them with the higher value, thus turning each of your 1 dollars into 100 dollars. Security systems of course will notice, but regular cash using people likely won't.
Through the 90's, my father was a lorry driver.. "International Duty".. I remember when he was home, he had a bag full of compartiments, all of them from a different country.. All the way from Portugal to Poland and Hungary.
I spent lots of time figuring out a lot about those countries, just by how their coins looked.
Croatia (my country) uses Euro since 1.1.2023.
There are several more safety features than mentioned like taktile ones to identify fake notes easier in everyday life (like a cashier at rush hour...). The different sizes helps vision impaired people to identify a certain bank note.
In addition to being different lengths, the new Australian banknotes also have braille dots for the vision impaired
Not only that, the lines he shows that links when wrapped around are actually raised up from the paper so that they have a tactile feel like braille and each denomiation has a different pattern... making it very easy to distinguish by touch....
@@martinschalken7583 The Euro bills and coins also have features. Bills: "The Euro banknotes were designed with heavy input from Blind organizations and have a very simple distinguishing feature: big bills are big; little bills are little. The notes have some intaglio printing, which gives them relief marks that can be felt. The €200 and €500 bills have special tactile marks on them as well, for added security and assuredness when dealing with such large amounts."
Having worked as a cashier at a supermarket in my teens when they introduced these, the amount of validation methods on these bills is crazy, honestly props to whoever manages to make proper fake ones that would fool a well trained cashier or machine, for as far as i'm aware that has still not been done. (having said that, there's probably a reason why they made new ones with a few more validation methods, but it's probably just to 'stay on top' of it)
Fake bridges are no longer fake, an artist in the Netherlands (Robin Stam) was like "hey those are cool bridges" so he got approval from a town to make miniature versions over a small river, typical Dutch things hehe.
Sizes vary less then you might think (you don't really notice unless you actually compare them side by side) and the largest bills still fit a normal size wallet. Having said that you can see if somebody has 'big bills' on them just by the color, not by the 'size of their wad' ^^
I need to disepoint you i have seen some bills that can even pas a uv light and a machine soo yeah they are out but they are rare (i'm speaking from belgium)
the 50 euro bill was faked for quite a while, also, the 1 and 2 cents no longer exist.
Fun fact, the first series were designed by the dutch. You could see that also in the design, the gulden(the name off the dutch money) was looking similar to the euro bills. And not everybody liked them( too colourful).
@@euhm The 1 and 2 cents are still around and are legal for payment. A lot of countries have stopped producing them and prices are rounded up or down to the closest 5 ct multiple in a lot of places.
@@user-xi6nk4xs4s You are right, you can still use the 1 and 2 cents, and they are still around, but as far as I know, the production has stopped completely.
I had only seen a counterfeit 50 euro note once. In the 22 years that I have worked as a cashier.
Before the Euro, we were used to exchange rates, different currencies, etc. It wasn’t such a big deal for private travelers in my opinion. With Eurocheques it also was fairly easy to get the local currency. To me it was just an added feeling of being outside of Germany.
As a southern German, I knew the exchange rates of Francs, Swiss Franks, Schilling, Lira and Pesetas.
However the Euro was a good step into a common European market.
Now you can spend that time learning other things.
I‘m European myself, so guys don’t start telling him, that Australian bank notes are waterproof, fireproof and crumbleproof 😉
And they are absolutely Beautiful ! Also their hologram window is incredible !
Been to OZ. I was astonished by your also (almost) untearable notes 😊 same for NZ
I still have some here.
Love from Germany
A lot of people have mentioned the different size bills being handy with visually impaired people but there is even better feature to help those in need. The lines on the edges that meet when folded like shown in the video are actually elevated and they are different in every bill. So basically a blind person can feel those elevated lines with their finger to tell which bill you're holding.
I remember the problems and controversy when the Euro was introduced. Older generations still calculare back to the old valuta to determine how much something costs. There is also still a great nostalgia to the old notes. Like our 25 gulden note was called the lighthouse and another note was the sunflower.
fun fact all the bridges are real as a dutch chad artist was like i like these lets make them irl so now we have small bridges to the design of the euro notes so yes they are real now lol
hehe, i would still call this *_"fictional buildings on the notes, and fake real buildings"_* :-)
Such a typical Dutch thing to do lmao, love my country & props to the artist in question (Robin Stam)
They are real in Spijkenisse; czcams.com/video/tQy07RuvIKI/video.html
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Definitely prefer different sized bank notes, never mind the difference that makes for blind users. I may be wrong, but the US seems the only country with notes the same size in my experience.
Something to note about the Danish Kroner/Crown, is that while it has not been replaced by the Euro, it has still been directly linked with the Euro value of €1 = 7.4 DKK, and if the Euro rises or falls, the DKK stays linked. It makes exchange rates very easy and predictable despite not adopting the currency itself, its value is inherited regardless.
Being portuguese and occasionally going to Spain for motorbike meetings before the Euro, I never felt the complications associated with having to trade currency when I went to Spain. I had the good fortune that the exchange rate between our Escudos (the former portuguese currency) and the Peseta (the former spanish currency) was almost 1:1 and our neighbours had no problem accepting our currency for payments there. Mind you that those meetings were usually not very far from the border but in any case, we also accepted Pesetas as a form of payment on our side of the border as well. 🙂
Pre-Euro travel was a pain. Going to the bank and paying a few to “buy” currency. Once ATM machines started working with your card in other countries it wasn’t as bad but it was still hard to adjust for the difference in values. The Euro has made it much simpler.
You are absolutely right, the bigger notes stick out. This is because so a blind person can immediatly figure out just by size, what note he has in his hand.
and the diagonal lines (6:52) at the edges are tactile and double as markers for blind people. 5 / 50 € have no gap, 10 / 100 € have one and 20 / 200 € have two gaps to help them not confuse the similar sized denominations
Ya, travelling in Europe pre-Euro was a pain in the ass. I had to do it a few times while on training trips over there. Post Euro was a breeze, could drive around from Germany to Luxembourg to Belgium, to Holland and have a detour into France on the way back with no problems with money. All Euros are accepted everywhere, just great. Oh, by the way, glad to see you wearing a Wisconsin Badgers hat, LOL, Go Badgers!
I miss that Money changing a litle bit. Because, the left over Money , was always a kind of Souvenir .( I have still some Coins from my Schooltripp to Italy, and some Coins from the GDR (East Germany)
Not only pre-Euro, but also pre-digital it was a drag to go on holiday to Italy. You needed to have German Deutsch Mark bills, Swiss Franc bills and Italian Lire bills. Otherwise you couldn’t get fuel or something to eat or drink on the way. All currency bills were taken back in by Dutch banks, but not the coins. We gave these coins to charity.
Well, no pain in the ass, just something you get used to. For the usual vacation destinations we didn't change back the foreign money. And when a customer of us opened a new branch in (then young) Slovenia, I (Austria) just had two wallets. As easy as that.
No border checks, no money exchange. Such a hassle removed.
You are correct about the 500 euro note, they are being fased out because they were mainly used by criminals to move large ammounts of money. Most stores dont even accept them. Same with the 200 notes.
Yep, I had a €200 note and it was almost impossible to move it on in France. The €500 notes were indeed well used by criminals, allegedly it is surprising how much money in 500's you can hide in an innocuous 20 cigarette packet. ISTR €25,000 is the number.
@@572Btriode Germany takes them just fine :)
once used 500 euro notes, when I buy ATV... lot of money in small pile.
The 500 notes instantly disappeared from circulation as soon as a new batch was produced. And the few people saw were fresh from the back. Never to be seen again.
The only use was for black market deposits. Drug lords don't need full houses to hide all the cash anymore, a few boxes were enough.
I've heard that some people was being payed 520 for each 500 note they can find....
I would not say mainly, but yes criminals used 500€ notes a lot. Originally they were not intended tp public use at all but mainly for banks to easily transfer money between them.
The original Dutch notes, the Guilder notes were the notes who stood as basic for the money. We had them special for blind people. We also had the colors standing out and we had already very good safety measures.
We had purple, yellow, orange, green, blue and red money, and was appraised around the world. The Euro’s are looking good, but the Dutch were art.
Love that you still consider 2002 like "recent" :D
I do the same and then realize it was over 20 years ago
The size of the banknotes and the patterns on the edges on the coins is there to assist the visually impaired so they don't have to ask for help and can be independent and don't be fooled.
Before the euro traveling in Europe was a hassle.
I live in Oostende, Belgium and in 45 minutes driving north I'm in the Netherlands and about the same going south I'm in France. Before the euro I always had French Francs and Netherland Guldens at home for when I went to France and The Netherlands for a day. The last years before the euro came it was a bit easier to get foreign currency because you could just go to a local ATM and get the countries' currency with a Belgium bank card.
But I remember a time (I was born in 1972) when you actually had to go to the bank or a money exchange place to convert some money. If you went abroad for a few weeks you had to carry traveler's checks because they were in your name and safer than carrying weeks worth of money in your wallet.
We went from Austria through Italy and France to Spain. So you needed 3 foreign currencies on the way. It helps if you have at least a bit of mathematics at your hand. In the end it's just some factors you need to work with on any price. And we still need them e.g. for Scandinavia. One time my mother saw some ham in Norway which she liked. When I told her the price we didn't buy it 🙂.
@@reinhard8053 You don't need them in Sweden at least, you need a bank card. :) More and more stores in Sweden have stopped accepting cash.
@@HenrikJansson78 I don't remember Sweden exactly, but in DK and N I found places where only local cash was possible or Swish(or similar) which is not possible for tourists.
The calculations remain to know what the price really is.
@@reinhard8053 On our last vacation in Sweden and Norway we encountered just two of these occasions. Once a "campground" (under quotation marks... 😉) didn't accept credit cards and offered us to stay without payment but finally accepted a 10 Euro bill. And once we were not able to donate to a church because they only accepted Swish.
Every opponent of the "Digital Euro" here in Austria should once go abroad with open eyes...
2:37 yet? Us Danes don`t plan on ever using Euros. And UK left EU since this video was made.
refering to the ones shown below.
@@Bennime_Once He isn't wrong, even if he isn't right. Or something. :) Sweden have no plans at all to adopt the Euro.
Danexit soon too? :)
Remember how he said that all the bridges are fictional? Well, they were ... a Dutch architect when asked to design bridges for a Dutch city called Spijkenisse designed them to look like the ones on the Euro notes.
Tom Scott made a video of them: czcams.com/video/S9E1wsxOSzM/video.html
As far as I know the different sizes were partially for convenience (easy to spot the higher denominations) but also to allow blind people to accurately feel which bill they are holding, so they don't have to rely on the kindness of strangers when doing a cash transaction.
Australian notes, upon which these notes are based, has the value embossed in braille on them.
The strips on the edge, that meets perfect with the other side, are made of a thicker ink that you can feel. And the pattern of these is different for each note. So the "feeling feature" is also there.
@@davidbarry994 Yeah, but you can't use Braille in the EU, as there's so many different languages - there are different braille systems for different languages. Braille isn't universal as many people thinks.
@@Bannimann2 also for numbers?
In 1988 Australia was the first to introduce the polymer (plastic) bank note to the world with numerous security measures making it all most impossible counterfeit. The last series has a lot more security features including the $5 note which has a bird in flight viewed when holding the note a special way.
Germany had a 1000 Deutsche Mark notes, worth about 500 Euro. And Switzerland has a 1000 Swiss Franc notes (worth currently about 1000 Euro). At some banks, when you withdraw CHF 1000, you will get such a note. I’ve paid with one in a supermarket and even a bar, though they did check it carefully in the latter.
The Netherlands had a 1000 Gulden note as well. I bit below the value of the German 1000 DM.
The major benefit of having different size and colored bills is that you can simply pull the right bill out of your wallet without ever having to really think much. I simply look at the bills in my wallet (which are ordered based on value and thus size), and pull out the right one. This also prevents you from having to show around how much money you have with you, as you can simply keep it hidden inside of the wallet.
Video didn't mention that coins also have accessibility feature with different edges as accessability feature. Was working with a lot of old people when we introduced Euro and showing them edges of coins, along with growing size of banknotes really made it easier for them to get used to new money.
6:55 Those lines are also tactile, so visually impaired people can feel which banknote is which!
I loved being in Ireland in holiday and finding Greek and Italian coins and notes in my purse.
When the euro cash was introduced in 2002, it was fun to look at the coins in our pockets and see which country they came from. Now we usually don't pay attention anymore; I just had a look at the ones in my purse, they come from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, Portugal, Ireland and Latvia.
My father worked as a printer at the German federal printing press pre Euro. He mostly printed 10 Deutsche Mark notes and passports. German bank notes had similar security features with the underlying idea to make replicating them with all the security features too expensive for forgers to still make a profit. For the same reason, it takes quite a lot of skill, knowledge and sophisticated machinery to produce them. Any mistake that causes faulty notes is very costly.
The coins have some interesting features too.
They are arranged in 3 sets the first 2 of 3 each and the last with only 2
1 2 5
10 20 50
€1 €2 (presumably space for €5)
The 1 and 5 in every series are essentially the same other than the 5 being larger
The 2 has a distinctive Tactile feature to help tell it apart
1 and 5 cents have smooth edges
2 has a smooth edge with a groove all the way around
10 and 50 have quite a coarse bumpy edge milling
20 has single concave bumps every so often
€1 has fine knurling with a nickel brass around cupronikel composition
€2 has alternating fine knurling and smooth with a cupronikel around nickel brass
€5 if it ever gets made will be bimetallic the same as €1 (nickel brass outer, cupronikel inner) with continuous knurling
As a European I really love the "new" Philippines eagle 1000 bill.
Modern polymer banknotes were first developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or CSIRO and first issued as currency in Australia during 1988.
The euro coins are also great, with logical size/material sequence (three copper coins growing in size for 1-2-5, three brass ones growing in size, two bimetallic ones). And they have clear value IN NUMERALS, not some weird wording like "one dime." (Who knows before visiting the U.S. that this is 10 cents? Also, this coin is much smaller than 5 cents.)
Fun fact: The zeros in the multiple small, yellow numbers dotted around on US bills (except the $1 and $2) are laid out in the same shape as the EURion constellation so that they trigger the same software check as EU bills when anyone tries to copy them.
they clearly said so in the video...
@@reesofraft4166 the video never mentioned US currency. I was pointing out that the feature that IWrocker praised as "next level security" was also present on US notes.
@@RobWVideo Well, more than present, "stolen" :) (I guess they have some sort of agreement)
@@framegrace1 Most countries have EURion donuts on their currency. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation#Usage
There are also Braille dots on the banknotes, but the different sizes are still very helpful to the visually impaired;
I am from '83, and remember the Euro coming. I found some Guilders, have them laying around the desk, adding 'dubbeltjes' and 'kwartjes' when I find them.
The Dutch Guilder notes were pretty nice (the older series). We had a lighthouse (250), yellow Van Gogh flower (50), Ink blue Frans Hals portret (10)
Just like American Quarters figure the 50 states ( Which I collected when I lived in the states) here in Europe, each country has its personalized country design behind their 2 euro, 1 euro, 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents and 1, 2, 5 cents designs (different in each coin). In America is just in the quarters (25 cents) coins. So Irish has a Shamrock, Finland has swams, Italy has the colosseum, Greek has an Owl, Spain has Cervantes, the Netherlands have Erasmus of Rotterdam, etc...
He forgot to mention many more features.. Like perfect incremental size for each note.. and many features for blind people
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The size and the different colors on each note, help the people who have troubles reading, or have a bad eyesight. The blind can rely on the stripes on the short edge as you can feel those.
On the 5 euro notes the ribbing is continuous, on the 10 euro notes the ribbing is interrupted once with a smooth surface and on the 20 euro notes the ribbing is interrupted twice.
01:35 There are flight, too, but there is also a common border. You passed through a huge tunnel and needed some other currency. Same for maritimal borders crosses.
Want to say that we Europeans still drive cars and fly airplanes a lot. I think a flight from Paris to Rome is a very realistic option, it is probably cheaper as well as faster than the train might be (outside of vacation periods).
And SNCF the French train company is not very reliable to use! Trains are very often late, workers pretty often in strikes. So plane is better! But the road trip is nice!
@@yeplebloop Yes and connections between different European countries are also not always that reliable, still think it's a pretty good option. I am planning a month-long train trip through central and Eastern Europe as it spares me having to park my car in big cities and it's also better for the environment.
Cheaper in money, not in real costs for the environment.
@@user-xi6nk4xs4s The train? Trains are definitely better for the environment than airplanes and cars.
@@woesmaro The cheaper in the original comment was not about trains.
Half-Asleep Chris is actually best known for his Lego video's. His production value is through the roof.
There's a ton of animation, editing and other work that goes into them.
Paris to Rome by car is about 15-16 hours or you can take the train and enjoy the ride! The colors and different sizes are for the people who have disabilities ex blind people.
I'm surprised the video you saw didn't go into more detail about the coins. For example, some coins have different edges to make it easier for blind people to distinguish coins more quickly than by guessing size.
Big problem for same size, same colour banknotes is the ease of mistaking the value note being passed in less ideal light or dirt state and especially for people with vision issues. Want to pass a $1 but given size and colour are the same actually paying with a $10 or worse $100, because in the dim light, or as a set of notes handed, or just in hurry hand the wrong value over. Made far more a possibility if vision impaired, even wearing glasses might be enough.
Similar can trick a person receiving a set of notes, example fail to note one or more actual $1 included in place of $10 . Or maybe in hurry or not having correct glasses on. With sizes and colours differing that mistake possibility is very much reduced.
These Euro notes are like the well known Australian notes, plastic, and more durable. Many features are like the Australian notes, plus they have made own security features, made possibly by the Australian developed process of coloured plastic notes.
Also like current Australian notes, I believe the Euro notes now also have varied number of dimples, for easy identifying by touch for vision impaired people, who as mentioned above already benefit from size and colour differences too.
Afaik the main argument for the different sizes is so severely visually impaired or even fully blind people can easily identify the bills by touch. That is also why the coins are different sizes and all have differently shaped ridges and notches on the edges.
And on the notes the diagonal lines on the edges are not just a security feature. They have different patterns, so they are identifiable by touch. 5 and 50, 10 and 100, 20 and 200 have the same "patterns", but in combination with the size of the note it's easy tell which one you have.
As well as the picture print and large denomination numbers on the front, which are printed in a way they can be felt.
Partly true, the etchings on coins originate from countering people shaving of gold and silver from coins before spending them.
The ECU existed before the €uro as the European Currency Unit - from 1979-98 as a “Invoice currency” but was replaced by the Euro .
Ecu is a medieval currency of France too…
Btw, the ECB decided to stop the 500€ - the highest is the 200€ now .
Did he mention the little windows in the paper from the 20€~200€ ?
Oh, I see , this is the old €uro series… they have already been changed…
Never mind- the video is 4 years old…
I know it as a child if you went from Germany to the Netherlands and you have not shopped directly at the border, the German DM had to be exchanged for Dutch guilders, a schoolmate was in Italy on vacation and told his father had had Lire 200,000 after the change of 200 marks we all thought he would have been rich with it in Italy😂 I was 12 when the Euro was introduced, on 1. January 2001 I waited with many others in a long queue to exchange DM 20 for EUR 10.23 and thought the new money was really super interesting. Out of nostalgia I have kept a few DM coins until today.
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truth be told, in the beginning there was an issue with "euro-fit wallets" because the 50 and 100€ bills were bigger than most bills that were in circulation at the time. But the size difference was introduced to aid blind people in identifying banknotes. The stripes on both sides are also tactile for the same reason
The different color and size of euro banknotes for each denomination is a huge help for people who cannot see perfectly. This is the actual reason. Therefore, the color and size have not changed.
I wear glasses, but I can safely pay without them.
I am old enough to remember that we often had to exchange our money, when we crossed the border for holidays. I the Netherlands we used the Dutch Gulden, or Guilder in English. It was fun to see all these currencies all over Europe, but it sure is more practical to all use the same money.
The relatively new Swiss bank notes are really interesting as well. Each note has a different theme and look really good.
Back in the days of Italian lire I remember while on holiday thinking how strange it was that for small change they'd give you sweets rather than coins....
As a Baltic person, I want to see Eiro as a name, but that wasn't excepted. Still hurts.
it was funny back then for americans. Austria used the "Schilling", England used the "Shilling" - same pronounciation, and Australia was an english colony once (but uses their own kind of dollar)...
The 500 one was a pain on the ass to use, really impractical, they were also very rare. In Spain we used to call them "Bin Ladens" because we knew they existed, but only a few saw them
size is important for people with sight difficulties. Australian notes even have braille like dots on them to assist the visually impaired.
Croatia now uses the Euro as of 1st January 2023, so this is slightly out of date. Also, the strips on the sides of the notes aren't just a security feature. They're slightly raised bumps and have different patterns for different denominations, making it easier for blind or partially sighted people to tell them apart.
2:35 Correction. Croatia did adopted the €uro back in 1.1.2023. And it's way easier now and much better. Especially since the value of everything in Croatia that's more valuable like real estate and vehicles, was expressed in the €uro for at least last 15 years or more.
I think that for all intense and purpose there was a European currency a thousand years ago, I believe that a denarius was minted and accepted all across the Roman world from Syria to Britain thus making it a common currency
I remember before the Euro going on holiday included a daily mathematical challenge of converting to your own national currency. I never minded, but these days comparing prices is much easier and precise.
Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland and the Czech Republic still have their own currency.
Ireland, the Baltic states and Greece participate in the €uro.
Micro States such as the Vatican, Andorra and Saint Marino also participate in the €uro.
Montenegro also uses the €uro but is not allowed to issue the currency itself.
There's also special editions of 2€ coins depicting historic events etc. a friend of mine collected them at some point and there's some wild and rare stuff around
When travelling between France and Italy, you can go by train (9-14 hours) or by plane. It's quite a distance to travel. The continental Europe is the same size as the US or Australia.
I still remember the old looking Euro banknotes and I remember the introduction of the 500 Euro banknote that was quickly discontinued because gangs etc
The denominations all being different sizes is important for vision impaired. Because the sizes are all different, they can very easily find out the value of a note
8:00 The bills we use the most in Europe are the 5, 10 and 20. Even if you want let’s say 100€, you will often have 5x 20€ bills, which is more flexible for everyday purchase. 50 and 100 bills are more rare and generally for more expensive purchases (or rich people I guess), but a lot of shop don’t like big bill such 100 and won’t accept payment of a small product (like 5-10) with a 100 bill, because if it’s a fake bill, then they not only have a 100 fake bill, but they also paid back 90+ euros with real money. That’s why a lot of shops don’t want to break a 100 or 200 bill. Generally you have them if you want to make an important purchase like say a 5k-10k used car or bike and the person want cash money only because they don’t trust bank notes. But you have to notify your bank first if you want a large amount of cash (anything above 1,500 or 2,000 can’t be obtained in some bank, even if you have the money and you’re ok with large bills). That’s why 5, 10 and 20 are the most used bills and therefore the most “boring” by now :)
I don't see why it would matter whether the shops lose products or money (other than money being more liquid for the con man). AFAIK the real reason for many shops not accepting large denominations is that, besides the increased risk of counterfits, people using them wipe out the change in the till, which then forces the shop to have way more cash at hand and often in larger denominations which they need less. Paying with a 100 instead of a 50 requires additional 50 in the cash register and, if instead of a 20, it means the shop has to fork up additional 80 in change. After that, they have this note of 100, which is basically useless for giving out as change. For a purchase of 15, in the latter case they could theoretically lose up to 17 similar customers' worth of change (though in practice they'd probably just lose 2 to 4+ times the change for customers paying with a 50).
The €50 ones aren't rare at all, the rarity is the ones over €50
Notes :) Different sized & coloured notes (aka "Metric Notes") are so people can easily tell a 5 from a 100.
The wrap-around lines are for a quick check, say at a shop. Aust is losing our 5c soon. Round up!
_Tbh, these are sorta decent-ish Australian style notes, but they have to be a bit bland to not offend anyone._
Thats because Australia developed and patented it. It's Australian innovation and security, when you look at all these notes, in all countries who use it, Australia makes money through the patent.
And we don't walk around with €100 bills because they're not accepted everywhere.
The video didn't mention the border of the coins. They are ALL different (some smooth, some with an indentation, some with knurkling...), so a blind people can recognise them super easily.
Interesting fact, our old money and the Euro's are printed with thermal ink in it, i don't know if that is the standard in the rest of the world..
But its an interesting security measure, if u take a banknote and rub it with some effort on a white piece of paper it heats up and the banknote will leave some coloring on the piece of paper...
The money notes are different lengths so that blind people can fold the notes and feel their value by putting them between their fingers
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It is not the same size so that blind people can hold them apart, there is actually a folding plastic thingy that will tell you how long it is and give you the value, e.g. in braille font, also it might be better for machines to hold them apart.
That documentary is missing 200€ and 500€ bank notes from the first initial series. 500€ was withdrawn in the second series, though.
The euro banknotes are printed on pure cotton paper, which is noticeably different from normal paper.
Chris's video is a bit outdated; the Euro zone has grown in the meantime, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Croatia use the Euro today. Next up will be Bulgaria, adopting the Euro on January 1st, 2024. And if you want to see real 500 € banknotes, I made a short clip on them: czcams.com/users/shortsjET_z2lvgGk?si=Pb4jqI0sdE2Sned1
By all the benefits that the united currency offers, I always found it quite charming having those 'strange' foreign notes in your hands 😁
fun for a short while or travelling only once to some such country, and we had several different separate wallets to keep our "home money" and some other currencies that were "leftovers" from one year, to be used in the next year. thus after at most 2 or 3 years, it was annoying to have all those different wallets and to have spare money that you couldn't use or needed to pay fees to exchange it back and forth, often having too much of one kind and not enough of another while passing through several countries in transit.
And notes from some countries are also much smaller or larger so that you need to get specific "local" wallets for them, or have to fold them a few times to make them fit (i still remember italian notes 50 years ago that needed to be folded at least twice since they were real carpets or tapestries, more than 4+ times larger than our own)
Different size notes and more colourful notes are vital for the visually impaired.
Whilst in the EU the UK never joined the Euro. However, there are 0 Euro notes with UK landmarks on them!
there also are USamerican 0€ notes !!! google for *_"0€ bills america"_* ...
among others, there are "brooklyn bridge", "big apple" and "times square" for New York, monochrome and color notes for Las Vegas, and also "remember 9/11", "golden gate bridge", "Elvis", "military aviation museum", "sergeant michael strank", and probably many more
I've been using euros for 12 years. I still think they're cool and not boring.
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Main reason for different note sizing is: Blind people can distinguish the notes by size
4:24 in Switzerland we have the 1000 francs note (circa 1110 usd with current exchange rate) and in those rare occasions when i have some my hand is gripping my wallet constantly
If you're gonna design money in the new milennium; better make it damn cool.
French and Italian beauty, German and Dutch practicality.
If you have poor eye sight or even are blind ,it is a HUUUGE advantage that the notes not the same size and texture across the board. And even when if that is not a problem, it is sooo much easier to find the right note to pull out when they all have distinct colours and sizes.
Australian bank notes have the value embossed on them in braille. We came up with the idea for different sizes and colours but found that wasn't enough.
4:22 here in Spain those 500 euro bills were called "Bin Laden", because they were quite hard to come by 😆
2:38; Scince January 1st 2023 Croatia also uses Euro €
Fun fact, switzerland has a 1000.-CHF banknote, this is about 1100.- USD
2:20 the 200 is bigger and the 500 is even bigger, but the 500€ note has been phased out.
Hey and the Coins are really nice too Lots of editions and per Country Super Awesome :D
they're nearly as good as the Australian polymer notes (we invented them!) that they're trying to emulate 😎