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They will never go backwards and follow this moronic idea.
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Fred Shecter wrote:
They will never go backwards and follow this moronic idea. Well, the Italian government has been promoting this moronic idea for years, and probably will continue to do so. Who cares g. Christian |
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Dear All,
I entirely agree that the idea of a one euro note is totally moronic, but please understand that the proposal comes from a very specific political side and that there will be soon elections in Italy. Thus all proposals coming out in this period are basically attempting to gain trust from the conservative side of the Italian society. The whole thing came out from the "feeling" that Italians had since the inception of the euro about coins. At the time of the Lira, cois were not worth much and people tended to put more trust on notes. Thus, moronically, the current Treasury Minister tried to please his own electorate side by proposing a sort of return to the use of paper in please of coins for the one euro denomination. Fortunately, the rest of the EU did not take into serious consideration such a proposal, despite few other EU Countries had initially flirted with the idea. The main argument was that since USA had the one dollar bill, then also Europe should have had its own one euro bill. :-) This would've been funny enough, if it hadn't been an actual real official proposal by a Government. Anyway, just time will enable people (and I would say, not just Italians) to have a better perception of the Euro currency and to reject from the start such alien ideas as the one we are discussing now. To change subject, I would say that very soon the whole system of one letter code to identify euro notes from a specific Country will have to be changed since from the beginning of next year at least three new Countries will join (Estonia, Lithuania, and Slovenia). My guess is that we should expect a new series within the next 2-3 years. :-) I do hope that by then the ECB will prepare a nice series with some European famous people on them, after all there is no shortage of them available!!! :-) Cheers to everybody, Giovanni. Christian Feldhaus wrote: Fred Shecter wrote: They will never go backwards and follow this moronic idea. Well, the Italian government has been promoting this moronic idea for years, and probably will continue to do so. Who cares g. Christian |
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Giovanni C. Pettinaro wrote:
The whole thing came out from the "feeling" that Italians had since the inception of the euro about coins. At the time of the Lira, cois were not worth much and people tended to put more trust on notes. Thus, moronically, the current Treasury Minister tried to please his own electorate side by proposing a sort of return to the use of paper in please of coins for the one euro denomination. Fortunately, the rest of the EU did not take into serious consideration such a proposal, despite few other EU Countries had initially flirted with the idea. The main argument was that since USA had the one dollar bill, then also Europe should have had its own one euro bill. :-) This would've been funny enough, if it hadn't been an actual real official proposal by a Government. The twelve euro countries did indeed have quite different currency "setups" before the introduction of the euro cash. I remember very well how, for example, many people in Austria wanted low value euro notes because they were used to "small" paper money. (The 20 schilling note was worth about ¤1.45 ...) The situation in Italy and also Greece was similar. But all that was more than four years ago. One might assume that people have gotten used to the current setup :-) So yes, I also think this is part of some election campaign in Italy, and not to be taken very serious. To change subject, I would say that very soon the whole system of one letter code to identify euro notes from a specific Country will have to be changed since from the beginning of next year at least three new Countries will join (Estonia, Lithuania, and Slovenia). My guess is that we should expect a new series within the next 2-3 years. :-) As for which countries will join the currency union on January 1, well, Slovenia is a pretty easy case. The inflation rates in Lithuania and particularly Estonia are a little high; whether these two will also be on board then remains to be seen. Currently there is no country code shortage; A through K, plus Q and W, are still available. I do hope that by then the ECB will prepare a nice series with some European famous people on them, after all there is no shortage of them available!!! :-) Would be neat, but then we would run into the old problem of who should be depicted. "A French (German, Italian, etc.) on the biggest note while our famous XYZ is only on the smallest note? Never!!" What I could rather imagine, apart from updated security features, is minor corrections such as adding Cyprus to the maps, and "ECB" abbreviations in more languages. Think of the euro and cent coins - the common sides (with the "maps") will be modified a little bit only ... Christian |
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Padraic Brown wrote:
They'd be shooting themselves in the foot, then. Who cares if some German is on a 500 note very few would see? The 10 with a famous Hollander or Belgian would be mùch more visible! Quite right. :-) But we'll still have the "problem" of who, from where, would be depicted on which note. And since you mentioned Belgium, we would even have to take into account whether the person is Flemish or Walloon. Oh, and half of the people have to be men, the other half would have to be women ... Nah, bridges and windows are fine g. Would be nice if they could come up with something more original than an outline map ... state outline is what OUR coin designers are tops at!! Well, the new common sides of the euro coins look like this: http://www.euronumis.com/?p=20 (Images taken from the 2005 "Practical Preparations" report of the European Commission to the Parliament and the Council) The page shows the new designs of the 10 ct and ¤1 coins. Like the map on the existing euro notes, the "coin maps" will simply show Europe. As far as I know, the new map will first be used by the new euro countries. And once Estonia starts using the euro, you'll have a map/outline on the common side and another one on (all!) the country specific sides ... :-/ The euro bills will not really be redesigned either. It would make sense to add Cyprus to the map on the notes, and I guess that additional abbreviations of "European Central Bank" will appear. But as far as the designs are concerned, that should be it. Christian |
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Padraic Brown wrote:
Picture it -- we sell the ECB (centered in Brussels, if I recall right) -- on a series of commemorative 5 and 10 notes highlighting several great persons, say of letters, sciences, arts and maybe politics, from each country. Sort of a state quarter programme for famous europeans. Would actually be a nice idea. However, most euro countries do not have a tradition of issuing commemorative paper money. So the ECB (in Frankfurt BTW) would have to launch some campaign telling the Euro-peans about those new/extra notes. Maybe in a couple of years, when people in the new member states have become familiar with the standard notes. But basically I like the suggestion. :-) [about the new common sides of the euro coins] Well, at least northeaster Europe no longer looks like a suggestively pornographic image. Right, the new designs looks normal ... as if the Norwegian-Swedish "mouth" was about to devour Denmark. Uh-oh g. Christian |
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