American Reacts to 'Secrets' of the Euro

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[sugoruyo]

The different banknote sizes are an accessibility feature for blind people to be able to tell the difference and the colours are chosen so that people with colour-blindness can still tell them apart. They're very well thought out.

[jancleve]

I once asked an american friend about the dollar bills.
He replied very lanconic: You know, we got a REALLY good deal on green ink.

[germanjake]

Fun fact: I think the Netherlands actually build those bridges afterwards over some small rivers etc.. Those cheeky Bastards can now claim "Yea it came all from us". But it was funny when it was revealed.

[AHVENAN]

The best thing about the notes all being different sizes and clearly contrasting colors is that if you have a bunch of different ones in your wallet, like 5s, 10s, 20s and 50s, it makes it super easy to find the one you need at the moment, you dont have to take out the entire wad and flip through it, you just look in your wallet and grab the ones you need (specially if you're a bit OCD like me and prefer to keep them sorted by value in your wallet :P)

Also, even the 100 and 200 ones aren't THAT big so at least in my experience, they dont really stick out of your wallet like you were concerned about, unless of course you have a really small wallet :P

[inquisitor]

The only really boring thing about €Euro notes is not having enough of them.

[danielw.]

Euro banknotes and coins are developed in such a way that blind and partially sighted people (red-green blindness too) can handle them with confidence.

[Defensor]

The bills having different sizes isn't just for accessibility but also for safety. The paper used requires specific manufacturing processes and it's generally impossible to obtain for anyone other than the governments. A counterfeiting trick that is (physically) possible to do with bank notes that are the same size is getting a bunch of small ones, bleaching them and reprinting them with the higher value, thus turning each of your 1 dollars into 100 dollars. Security systems of course will notice, but regular cash using people likely won't.

[suicidalbanananana]

Having worked as a cashier at a supermarket in my teens when they introduced these, the amount of validation methods on these bills is crazy, honestly props to whoever manages to make proper fake ones that would fool a well trained cashier or machine, for as far as i'm aware that has still not been done. (having said that, there's probably a reason why they made new ones with a few more validation methods, but it's probably just to 'stay on top' of it)

Fake bridges are no longer fake, an artist in the Netherlands (Robin Stam) was like "hey those are cool bridges" so he got approval from a town to make miniature versions over a small river, typical Dutch things hehe.

Sizes vary less then you might think (you don't really notice unless you actually compare them side by side) and the largest bills still fit a normal size wallet. Having said that you can see if somebody has 'big bills' on them just by the color, not by the 'size of their wad' ^^

[rome]

There are several more safety features than mentioned like taktile ones to identify fake notes easier in everyday life (like a cashier at rush hour...). The different sizes helps vision impaired people to identify a certain bank note.

[nightcorelore]

I‘m European myself, so guys don’t start telling him, that Australian bank notes are waterproof, fireproof and crumbleproof 😉

[maxbarko]

Before the Euro, we were used to exchange rates, different currencies, etc. It wasn’t such a big deal for private travelers in my opinion. With Eurocheques it also was fairly easy to get the local currency. To me it was just an added feeling of being outside of Germany.
As a southern German, I knew the exchange rates of Francs, Swiss Franks, Schilling, Lira and Pesetas.
However the Euro was a good step into a common European market.

[domagojbatinic]

Croatia (my country) uses Euro since 1.1.2023.

[sirsancti]

Through the 90's, my father was a lorry driver.. "International Duty".. I remember when he was home, he had a bag full of compartiments, all of them from a different country.. All the way from Portugal to Poland and Hungary.
I spent lots of time figuring out a lot about those countries, just by how their coins looked.

[wdubbelo]

fun fact all the bridges are real as a dutch chad artist was like i like these lets make them irl so now we have small bridges to the design of the euro notes so yes they are real now lol

[Scrubje]

You are correct about the 500 euro note, they are being fased out because they were mainly used by criminals to move large ammounts of money. Most stores dont even accept them. Same with the 200 notes.

[ReisskIaue]

You are absolutely right, the bigger notes stick out. This is because so a blind person can immediatly figure out just by size, what note he has in his hand.

[AviationAndAutomobiles]

A lot of people have mentioned the different size bills being handy with visually impaired people but there is even better feature to help those in need. The lines on the edges that meet when folded like shown in the video are actually elevated and they are different in every bill. So basically a blind person can feel those elevated lines with their finger to tell which bill you're holding.

[lindabroer]

I remember the problems and controversy when the Euro was introduced. Older generations still calculare back to the old valuta to determine how much something costs. There is also still a great nostalgia to the old notes. Like our 25 gulden note was called the lighthouse and another note was the sunflower.

[Real_MisterSir]

Something to note about the Danish Kroner/Crown, is that while it has not been replaced by the Euro, it has still been directly linked with the Euro value of €1 = 7.4 DKK, and if the Euro rises or falls, the DKK stays linked. It makes exchange rates very easy and predictable despite not adopting the currency itself, its value is inherited regardless.

[andyt]

Definitely prefer different sized bank notes, never mind the difference that makes for blind users. I may be wrong, but the US seems the only country with notes the same size in my experience.