What does yours look like?

[Ehecatl Atzin]

[lol] yeah.. I know what you're thinking..[nono] but I meant money! Here's a 20 peso bill--

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/ehecatl atzin/200391620393_deaveinte.jpg
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And here's it's backside--
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/ehecatl atzin/2003916204016_deaveinteatras.jpg
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And finally a five peso coin..wanted to show a 20 one, but I don't seem to have one (Last night began Mexican Independence Day..all my money got spent :D )


http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/ehecatl atzin/2003916204224_deacinco.jpg
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What about you?

[ERIKK]

Check this link for the banknotes and coins (for lot of us on this board)! :)

http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/section.html

(I was a bit scared to put 'the other thing' under the scanner.... [mouth] )

[Ehecatl Atzin]

"the other thing" ?

EDIT-- hey, the euro coins look alot like our coins, gold center with a silver rim... but ours came out around the early 90's...[hmm]

[Lt. Killer M]

EA: they realized that it is a good idea to have them easily distinguishable by something but size..... so the 1 and 2 E coins got the colour flipped.......


I will get some good old real money (Deutsche Mark) from home later today to scan ;)

[digger760]

The Almighty Australian Dollar:

(and the notes are plastic too)
(notice there are no piddly 1 or 2 cent coins)

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/digger760/200391782512_notes.jpg
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http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/digger760/200391782529_coins.jpg
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[Grille]

Here's a link, showing the first lay-out of a 20 DM banknote from 1948. Its design is somewhat close to the dollar design (well roughly; and crappy: some bills did not even have a pic!)
AFAIK they were printed in the US in a rush. They were shipped to Germany and all of a sudden stuff re-appeared in shop-windows again. (Stuff was mainly traded via blackmarket from 1945-48).
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/Nachkriegsjahre_banknoteZwanzigDeutscheMark/
1960 (IIRC) was a new design edition made, here's the 5 DM bill:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3045771072&category=8004
Interesting story: An artist guy painted (!!!) some notes (mainly 1000 DM) in the '70s and had a bit of criminal blood in his vains, thus he spent some of his "paintings". Police stated that the paintings were really high quality fake money... [eek]
He became somewhat famous and occasionally draws Euro notes in tv shows... [lol]

Later, another design style was published. I guess Killer is refering to these and let's wait for his scanning efforts :) ...ah, the nostalgia...

I still have an inflationary half-million Reichsmark coin(!) [jump] - but I'm not rich :(. It wasn't even worth the metal then. Weimar Republic currency policy led to a giant inflation, resulting in a currency reform in 1923. Also, I have a GDR 10 Mark note from a visit in East Berlin, it was a school trip in 1988 (you were forced to make a 25 DM money exchange for a daily trip - at 1:1 exchange rate!). Alas, got no scanner to show you.

[Lt. Killer M]

Grille, nice links! Thanx!

[Shabbaman]

quote:Originally posted by Grille

I still have an inflationary half-million Reichsmark coin(!) [jump] - but I'm not rich :(. It wasn't even worth the metal then.

Then there's the trade potential: trade your worthless coins for slightly more worthless coins. Rinse, repeat. That's an infinite loop! No wonder they had to reform...

quote:Also, I have a GDR 10 Mark note from a visit in East Berlin, it was a school trip in 1988 (you were forced to make a 25 DM money exchange for a daily trip - at 1:1 exchange rate)

So you left with 10 mark? What was wrong? The communists did drink beer, didn't they? ;)

[Grille]

Well, here's a better link (catalogues are incomplete, though):
http://www.banknotes.com/europa.htm (site has world-wide coverage)
"Germany" is just pre-1948 and more an excerpt, but here you can see a 100.000.000 Reichsmark banknote from 1923. Everyone was a poor millionaire then.
"Germany - Democratic Republic" is rather exhaustive,
"Germany - Federal Republic" has some of the older "dollar"-style notes, such as the 10 DM note:
http://www.banknotes.com/DE16.JPG

Here's the (later) 1000 DM note, the artistic money faker used to paint:
http://www.banknotes.com/DE36.JPG I think it took some days to draw all the lines and stuff, but still a nice wage-per-hour, I guess... [lol]

[Grille]

quote:Originally posted by Shabbaman

quote:Originally posted by Grille
Also, I have a GDR 10 Mark note from a visit in East Berlin, it was a school trip in 1988 (you were forced to make a 25 DM money exchange for a daily trip - at 1:1 exchange rate)

So you left with 10 mark? What was wrong? The communists did drink beer, didn't they? ;)

:DHehe, you're exactly right. But: it was a school trip and (for what reason ever) our teachers had other ideas to keep us in line...
But me and some mates did indeed *illegally* drink 1 beer in a snack bar (along with a wurst) during an unwatched "free-time" moment...

The (good) beer was so incredible cheap that it would have taken weeks to spend all the 25 East Mark...[lol]
[hmm]
Maybe the citizens over there were drunk all the time, thus communism failed in the end. :D