European banknotes picture thread

[Adagio]

We just some ugly money with some boring people on our money

The Euro looks much nicer, unfortunately we chose to stay with our ugly money

[alva]

Re: Re: European banknotes picture thread

Originally posted by Ecthy


This alone should be reason for you to stop worrying and love the euro.

And we've got them to thank for, for those lovely, handy 1 and 2 cent coins.

[dannubis]

Euro

Lira

Why did you even bother printing all those zeros ?

[Zoid]

Ugliest swedish banknote ever produced!




It was printed in 1968 to commemorate the 300 year anniversary of the Bank of Sweden.

IMO the best looking swedish banknote.





The swedish 1000 kr banknote printed between 1976-1988.

[Tattila the Hun]

People in the notes are, from top, Väinö Linna, writer, Alvar Aalto, architect, Jean Sibelius, composer, Elias Lönnrot, writer, Anders Chydenius, philosopher.

For reference, coins:


I allways liked the 50 penni bear-coin.

[Zoid]

The seal is cuter

[Adalbertus]

During the weeks around the introduction of the Euro, I made a trip from Nancy (French Francs) via a stop in Luxemburg, where I had to get some food (change in Luxemburgian/Belgian Franc), to Cologne (German Mark), and the New Year I passed in Venice (Italian Lire). At around 1.30 AM I got the first Euro bills. And then the way back to Nancy was via Germany again. That was a simple and short demonstration why to prefer the Euro.

[BlackCat]

A very non politcal correct 500 DKR note from Denmark :



Niels Bohr are smoking a pipe !!!

[Zkribbler]

IIRC, the designers of the Euro wanted to get away from petty nationalism and so didn't want to use human faces because this could be misinterpreted as favoring one nationality over another.

[Imran Siddiqui]

At least it doesn't show someone else smoking Bohr's pipe

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
At least it doesn't show someone else smoking Bohr's pipe

Didn't know that you were fond of necrophilia, but we all learn every day .

If I did a "bad" thing to english, then please enlighten me

[Geronimo]

Is it my US perspective or do practically all non US currencies look more like each other than any of them resemble US currency?

I begin to think the US is perhaps failing to make currency that fits with existing defacto guidelines on currency styling.

[TCO]

USA! USA!

We're also like practically the only country that still honors all it's old notes. Had the experience of getting an old D-mark in Germany and could not return it. Of course we are an older nation with more traditions than they.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by LordShiva

India is not European


and it's all aneeshm's fault


unfortunatelly, no pics in the net of the current banknotes, but there are some that were in use before the change in the 90's. The smaller nominals came from communistic times.

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Jozef Bem - polish general, fought in November Uprising, where he saved some of polish army from Ostroleka collapse. Later was the most successful general of Hungarian Uprising and is very much revered in Hungary; at the end of his live, he moved to Turkey, which was considered the ally of polish cause, converted to islam and served in turkish army

Romuald Traugutt - general, the last dictator of January Uprising, hanged

Karol Swierczewski (general Walter)- a general of soviet, spanish and polish army. He fought in Red Army, also against bourgeois Poland, later he fought on republican side in Spain. One of few people who came back to USSR from Spain and were not arrested. Later on he fought in ww2 and was transferred to communist polish army. Allegedly at this point of life he was completely incompetent due to his alcoholism.
After the war, he was shot by ukrainian partisants. Some historians claim he was sent to death on purpouse.

Ludwik Warynski - polish communist activist, died in prison

Jaroslaw Dabrowski - general; leader of red (radical) fraction during January Uprising, Commander-in-Chief of the defense of the French Paris Commune, died on the barricades.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko - polish and american general; engineer and fortificator, he served American revolution fortyfying many places, he f.e. created West Point. For money from the Congress, he bought freedom for some black slaves and educated them. When he came back to Poland, he reduced peasants' services in his posessions to minimum, and freed women from it. He fought in 1792 polish-russian war, and it was because of his victory of Zielence that Virtuti Militari, polish highest military decoration, was created. He was the leader of an uprising in 1794, named by him.
Also, the highest mountain of Australia was named by him.

Mikolaj Kopernik (Copernicus) - polish astronom, who discovered that Earth evolves around the Sun and not the other way round. He also discovered some important financial law about bad coin pushing out the good one from the market and, in general, delt with monetary policies of Poland. he was also canonic, medician, military strategist, mathematician and lawyer.

Mieszko I and Boleslaw I Chrobry - two first polish christian rulers. Mieszko succesfully defended Poland against polabian - german invasion, converted to Christianity, probably added Silesia and Minor Poland to Poland. Boleslaw established independant church hierarchy in Poland, won three wars against Germany, conquered Lusatia, Moravia, Czechia (for a short time), Slovakia, fought with Prussians and sent St Adalbertus mission there. He also defeated Kievan Ruthenia, re-captured territories Poland lost to it, captured Kiev and (temporily) placed a puppet prince there. Worth to say it was in the times of greatest might of Kievan Ruthenia.
He was crowned the first king of Poland.

Fryderyk Chopin - reknown polish musician

Stanislaw Wyspianski - drama writer, poet, painter and architect

Maria Sklodowska - Curie - reknown polish physic and chemistry scientist, double Nobel prize winner

Stanislaw Staszic - a priest, enlightement publicist, one of the creators of university school in Warsaw. He was a geologian and supported the development of (especially mine) industry.

Stanislaw Moniuszko - musician

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Nobel prize winner in literature, he is mostly reknown in the world for Quo Vadis, but in Poland due to Trilogy - a serie depicting polish military efforts in XVII century

Wladyslaw Reymont - another Nobel prize winner in literature, for "Peasants"

Ignacy Paderewski - musician, piano player, polish prime minister

[Sir Og]

The current banknotes in circulation with the exception of the 100 Leva bill.



1 Lev from commie times.



This was in circulation during the infalationary period. Now equals 1 Lev (0.5 Euro cents).