What does yours look like?

Ehecatl Atzin · 16-09-2003, 20:42

yeah.. I know what you're thinking..

but I meant money! Here's a 20 peso bill--

74.65KB

And here's it's backside--

74.49KB

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

)

7.57KB

What about you?

ERIKK · 16-09-2003, 21:21

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....

)

Ehecatl Atzin · 16-09-2003, 21:50

"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...

Lt. Killer M · 17-09-2003, 02:01

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 · 17-09-2003, 08:26

The Almighty Australian Dollar:

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

13.48*KB

10.8*KB

Grille · 17-09-2003, 10:30

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/...gDeutscheMark/
1960 (IIRC) was a new design edition made, here's the 5 DM bill:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...&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...

He became somewhat famous and occasionally draws Euro notes in tv shows...

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(!)

- 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 · 17-09-2003, 11:43

Grille, nice links! Thanx!

Shabbaman · 17-09-2003, 13:33

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Grille

I still have an inflationary half-million Reichsmark coin(!)

- 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:

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 · 17-09-2003, 14:17

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...

Grille · 17-09-2003, 14:32

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Shabbaman

Quote:

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?

Hehe, 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...

Maybe the citizens over there were drunk all the time, thus communism failed in the end.

16-09-2003, 20:42	#1
Ehecatl Atzin Part-timer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Moon\'s Belly button. Posts: 280	What does yours look like? yeah.. I know what you're thinking.. but I meant money! Here's a 20 peso bill-- 74.65KB And here's it's backside-- 74.49KB 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 ) 7.57KB What about you? __________________ ~If getting gas .50 cents cheaper means the systematical extermination of an entire culture, I\'ll walk. ~The resistance will be as transnational as capital. ~The Revolution is also made with bricks-- Dr.Atl

16-09-2003, 21:50	#3
Ehecatl Atzin Part-timer Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Moon\'s Belly button. Posts: 280	"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... __________________ ~If getting gas .50 cents cheaper means the systematical extermination of an entire culture, I\'ll walk. ~The resistance will be as transnational as capital. ~The Revolution is also made with bricks-- Dr.Atl

17-09-2003, 02:01	#4
Lt. Killer M Emperor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: HAWK!. Posts: 4,365	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 __________________ One more turn..... just one more turn... one MORE!

17-09-2003, 11:43	#7
Lt. Killer M Emperor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: HAWK!. Posts: 4,365	Grille, nice links! Thanx! __________________ One more turn..... just one more turn... one MORE!

16-09-2003, 21:21	#2
ERIKK Moderator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Netherlands!. Posts: 2,636	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.... )

17-09-2003, 08:26	#5
digger760 King Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Fake Dog Poo Factory. Posts: 1,887	The Almighty Australian Dollar: (and the notes are plastic too) (notice there are no piddly 1 or 2 cent coins) 13.48KB 10.8KB

17-09-2003, 10:30	#6
Grille Join Date: May 2003 Location: in a swamp. Posts: 901	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/...gDeutscheMark/ 1960 (IIRC) was a new design edition made, here's the 5 DM bill: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...&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... He became somewhat famous and occasionally draws Euro notes in tv shows... 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(!) - 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.

17-09-2003, 14:17	#9
Grille Join Date: May 2003 Location: in a swamp. Posts: 901	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...