The Euros I used recently were rather bland appearing. I had a harder time figuring out the coinage, although I did like the 1 and 2 Euro coins. Wish the U.S. would dump the 1 dollar currency note in favor of the "gold" dollar coin issued in 2000, the one with Sacagawea on it.
Jim A. > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:20:23 +0200, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I received one of those new tens as change yesterday. Looked like >> monopoly money. I actually went to the bank to make sure it was real >> money. The US dollar has sure changed. > > Maybe webimages don't do it justice, but I'm not impressed: check out the > cool stuff we had before someone decided it would be a good idea to let a > public panel choose the design of the Euro notes: > http://home.planet.nl/~j.piers/ > > The designer of the original 'colourfull' series from the seventies (the > first 10 and 1000 guilder notes on the site are from this series) actually > used monopoly money as an inspiration: he reasoned bright colours would > make the money more user-friendly. He was right. > > -- > Regards, Lucas > >
