At 11:22 25-06-2002 -0500, The Fool wrote: >The color thing is really irritating. It won't stop counterfitting in >any concieveable way. The main reason they are doing it is because of >Stupid illiterate foreigners who can't read the 15 places the value of >bill is printed in large type on the bill.
Ah, so that is why us Yurpeens have had colourful bank notes for so long: to make it easier for Stupid Illiterate Merkans to recognise the various denominations. <grin> But seriously, using various colours and pictures has great advantages over the US approach of all-the-same-colour bank notes with the face of a dead president on them. Take, for example, the latest design (pre-Euro) of some Dutch bank notes. The NLG 50 bill was yellowish and featured a sun flower, the NLG 100 bill was brownish and featured a bird, and the NLG 250 was purple-ish and featured a light house. (Extremely disturbing sight when we switched to Euros: footage of huge piles of those lovely colourful bank notes being destroyed. Sniff, sniff.) Now, which would be easier to use in less-than-perfect light and for the illiterate? Those Dutch notes or those green American notes that require an illiterate person to know the faces of the various presidents to figure out how much money he is holding? >Do you really want people to be able to tell from a distance how much >money you have, or withdrew from an ATM? At least the muggers can now be >happy. Can you show evidence that there is a direct relationship between the colours of a country's bank notes and the number of muggings? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
