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Europe introduces new Banknotes

53 points by FredericJ 14y ago

stigi 14y ago
Here's a link to a video stream (Open in Quicktime) http://c14098-l.z.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/017ecbiphonelive/stream_live_or/playlist.m3u8 http://c14098-l.z.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/017ecbiphonelive/s...
- etherealG 14y ago
  thanks, working better than the website
etherealG 14y ago
timer has just ticked over and it's not working. a shame really, was quite interested to see what they had done.
jstanley 14y ago
Domain name is weird. Why isn't this on something that could plausibly be considered an official EU site?
- y0ghur7_xxx 14y ago
  This is the European Central Bank press release: http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2012/html/pr121108_1.en.html http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2012/html/pr121108_1.en.htm... and this http://www.ecb.int/euro/banknotes/europa/html/index.en.html http://www.ecb.int/euro/banknotes/europa/html/index.en.html Linking to http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/ http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/
container 14y ago
Interesting, but just to get this part over with: EMU != EU != Europe.
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stigi 14y ago
Just fast forwarded my clock for 1 hour & I was able to already watch the video.
- 3pt14159 14y ago
  Worked for me as well.
- resurge 14y ago
  And here I was looking through the source for some JS to fiddle with :p
  - phn 14y ago
    Actually, open the console and call injectVideo() Voilá! EDIT: However, the video that pops up does not show the actual notes...nor anything that cannot be seen elsewhere on the website.
- smackfu 14y ago
  But it said it was LIVE!
  - stfu 14y ago
    No no no, you didn't just question the trustworthiness of information put forward by the ECB, did you?
- gghootch 14y ago
  Direct link to video: http://www.contentforce.de/iptv/swf/xflv/showIt3.swf?plugin_version=9.0.115&language=en&primaryColor=0xDFE3E6&secondaryColor=0x000000&textColor=0x000000&borderColor=0xffffff&overColor=0xff0000&baseUrl=http://www.contentforce.de/iptv/player/macros&params=?r=r$forcedWidth=640$forcedHeight=360$keepVideoAspectRatio=true&bandwidthPath=http://www.contentforce.de/iptv/img/test.txt&skin=Media_Player&application=856981504&webcastId=1994784790 http://www.contentforce.de/iptv/swf/xflv/showIt3.swf?plugin_...
arethuza 14y ago
I hope they still use Europium as an anti-counterfeiting phosphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium
w0utert 14y ago
I'm still trying to figure out whether the new watermark on the new banknotes is some kind of sick joke, a big 'f*ck you' to euro-sceptics, or simply a screw-up and testament to the lack of historical knowledge of the people who designed the notes. For those of you who don't know what I'm getting at: the watermark on the new notes is Europe, the woman who -according to Greek mythology- was seduced by Zeus to ravish her, while he was disguised as a beautiful white bull. The bull abducted her while she was riding its back, into the sea, to the beaches of Crete (Greece), where he showed his true identity. You don't need a whole lot of imagination to find an analogy between this story and what is going on with Greece and the Euro right now.
- deleted 14y ago
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- kalms 14y ago
  I think you should sit down, take a drink and rethink what's important here in life. If anything, it's the other way around. And if it is indeed on purpose, like you seem to think, then kudos - at least ECB has a sense of humour. Greece can go find their own way, if that's what they want. Nobody is forcing them to do anything.
  - w0utert 14y ago
    Great advice, you should take it yourself ;-)
    - kalms 14y ago
      Will do!
  - novalis 14y ago
    That comment is wrong on so many levels.
- Xylakant 14y ago
  Europe (the woman) is often used to refer to Europe (the continent) in caricatures and paintings. I'd say neither of your interpretations is the real reason, though they're both amusing.
zalew 14y ago
Eurozone != Europe
- UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
  America != USA. But yet we all know what people mean because of the context.
  - jonascopenhagen 14y ago
    The Eurozone is only 17 countries out of Europe's 50 countries. We're talking a combined population that's less than half of Europe's total population. So no, I don't think it's a fair comparison.
    - dfxm12 14y ago
      When you saw the headline did you honestly believe that these new banknotes were going to become the currency for all of Europe, and not the set of countries that actually shares a currency?
wilfra 14y ago
Why are French people always unwilling to speak English?
- antr 14y ago
  The video is in France, with a French citizen, why should they? Lets go to the SFMoMA and tell the staff to go on camera and speak in Italian because [insert unsubstantiated claim].
  - wilfra 14y ago
    For the same reason everybody who wasn't French in that video used English - it's the international language of business. Also because most educated French people can speak it just fine, they just refuse to.
    - _delirium 14y ago
      Many French people I've met are very unconfident about their spoken English, so prefer to avoid it if possible. Reading and writing is fine, but they worry that nobody will be able to understand their speech, or that they'll make an embarrassing gaffe.
      - jvzr 14y ago
        Indeed. We are very aware of our flaws and almost ashamed of our french accent. Some know it may be an asset elsewhere (especially cause some people find it charming), but the whole rest prefer to avoid it. I don't think it's intentionally targeted at the English, kind of like a revenge for some Napoleonian shenanigan or whatever. Just damn aware that we speak badly.
      - raverbashing 14y ago
        They are usually right, unfortunately And their accent still shows (like a sore thumb) even when their English is good. Same for English speaking people speaking French. (Except Canadians, I think their French accent is a kind of 'impedance matching') I think I saw a couple of French people with very good English and almost no accent though.
TomPC 14y ago
Also working, change the minutes in 01 with firebug and wait for 1 min, then video will start.
pilsetnieks 14y ago
I'm hoping they will be plastic, although it doesn't seem likely. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote)
- 4ad 14y ago
  I hope not. Coming from a country with plastic notes, euros are a blessing. Plastic is, well, plastic. If you deform it, which is very easy, it will stay that way forever. You can't straighten it up. Notes don't stack together nicely anymore, because each note shows a different pattern of wear and tear. Notes are supposed to be durable, but are extremely easy to chip on a side, and when that happens, they simply split in two. This usually happens with larger notes. When I get money from the ATM, 10% of the notes are chipped on a side and I have to use scotch tape to fix them. Best note material is what dollars use. Plastic notes stacks are also much harder to count fast, they don't stick to your fingers, instead they stick together. If they are even slightly wet the problem is exacerbated.
  - jeltz 14y ago
    I think the kind of paper used in the SEK is even better than the one used in the USD. Compared to Swedish notes most currencies I have used have felt tacky. The USD is ok though.
  - zuppy 14y ago
    We're using plastic money in Romania for more than 10 years, and I honestly haven't seen a single case of your problem with chipped sides. Maybe there are different technologies available?
    - 4ad 14y ago
      I come from Romania, I used to get my money from ING ATMs.
    - analog 14y ago
      Never seen these problems with Australian notes either, if anything they seem much more durable than paper notes. And you can take them to the beach.
smackfu 14y ago
Wow, that's a confusing website. Showing the old banknote designs all over the new banknote site is a bad choice. Does anyone just have a link to what the new 5 euro looks like?
- Svip 14y ago
  It hasn't been revealed yet. Which is sort of the point.
- aSig 14y ago
  There's a good comparison of the old and new note side-by-side here http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/Euro-banknotes/Compare/Compare-both-5-banknotes/Superimpose http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/Euro-banknotes/Compare/Comp...
  - jcfrei 14y ago
    it's funny how they messed up the reflection on the back side of the 5€ bill (try adjusting the slider).
  - smackfu 14y ago
    Which language has EURO as EBPO? Must be one of the new ones.
    - jaimebuelta 14y ago
      Bulgarian, as they use Cyrillic alphabet.
taneliv 14y ago
I waited for 3 full minutes for the countdown to finish and all I get is a black popup with "Live - iPhone" at the bottom. Not sure if this is the dramatic ending of the euro, or just a technical problem ...
bartkappenburg 14y ago
Here it is: https://twitter.com/bartkappenburg/status/289398165185105920/photo/1 https://twitter.com/bartkappenburg/status/289398165185105920...
jasonkester 14y ago
Frustrating that you need to open two browser windows if you want to compare bills side by side, since it reverts to the front side when you flip between new and old. As the bill itself, I could see myself missing the 5's in the corners. That's standard for pretty much every currency everywhere for a reason. It lets you quickly figure out what you're looking for, even rifling a wallet or when it's folded. I guess they figure the giant "5!!!" covering half the bill will do the trick, but folded into my money clip, I only get half a number (obscured behind the clip itself) or no number at all, depending on which side I happen to be looking at. Incidentally, I've been on Euros & Pounds for half a decade now, and I wouldn't be able to tell you what bill is what color, so having a big empty blueish-grey sheet of paper pointing at me wouldn't help either. My only hope in the moneyclip scenario would be to have other denominations side-by-side so I could do a size comparison.
- jaimebuelta 14y ago
  Do you need to see the 5 to know is a 5 Euro note? I mean, it's different in color and size from the other Euro notes, which to me makes the difference more than the printed number...

53 points by FredericJ 14y ago

stigi 14y ago

Here's a link to a video stream (Open in Quicktime) http://c14098-l.z.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/017ecbiphonelive/stream_live_or/playlist.m3u8 http://c14098-l.z.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/017ecbiphonelive/s...

etherealG 14y ago
thanks, working better than the website

etherealG 14y ago

timer has just ticked over and it's not working. a shame really, was quite interested to see what they had done.

jstanley 14y ago

Domain name is weird. Why isn't this on something that could plausibly be considered an official EU site?

y0ghur7_xxx 14y ago
This is the European Central Bank press release: http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2012/html/pr121108_1.en.html http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2012/html/pr121108_1.en.htm... and this http://www.ecb.int/euro/banknotes/europa/html/index.en.html http://www.ecb.int/euro/banknotes/europa/html/index.en.html Linking to http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/ http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/

container 14y ago

Interesting, but just to get this part over with: EMU != EU != Europe.

deleted 14y ago

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stigi 14y ago

Just fast forwarded my clock for 1 hour & I was able to already watch the video.

3pt14159 14y ago
Worked for me as well.
resurge 14y ago
And here I was looking through the source for some JS to fiddle with :p
- phn 14y ago
  Actually, open the console and call injectVideo() Voilá! EDIT: However, the video that pops up does not show the actual notes...nor anything that cannot be seen elsewhere on the website.
smackfu 14y ago
But it said it was LIVE!
- stfu 14y ago
  No no no, you didn't just question the trustworthiness of information put forward by the ECB, did you?
gghootch 14y ago
Direct link to video: http://www.contentforce.de/iptv/swf/xflv/showIt3.swf?plugin_version=9.0.115&language=en&primaryColor=0xDFE3E6&secondaryColor=0x000000&textColor=0x000000&borderColor=0xffffff&overColor=0xff0000&baseUrl=http://www.contentforce.de/iptv/player/macros&params=?r=r$forcedWidth=640$forcedHeight=360$keepVideoAspectRatio=true&bandwidthPath=http://www.contentforce.de/iptv/img/test.txt&skin=Media_Player&application=856981504&webcastId=1994784790 http://www.contentforce.de/iptv/swf/xflv/showIt3.swf?plugin_...

arethuza 14y ago

I hope they still use Europium as an anti-counterfeiting phosphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium

w0utert 14y ago

I'm still trying to figure out whether the new watermark on the new banknotes is some kind of sick joke, a big 'f*ck you' to euro-sceptics, or simply a screw-up and testament to the lack of historical knowledge of the people who designed the notes. For those of you who don't know what I'm getting at: the watermark on the new notes is Europe, the woman who -according to Greek mythology- was seduced by Zeus to ravish her, while he was disguised as a beautiful white bull. The bull abducted her while she was riding its back, into the sea, to the beaches of Crete (Greece), where he showed his true identity. You don't need a whole lot of imagination to find an analogy between this story and what is going on with Greece and the Euro right now.

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kalms 14y ago
I think you should sit down, take a drink and rethink what's important here in life. If anything, it's the other way around. And if it is indeed on purpose, like you seem to think, then kudos - at least ECB has a sense of humour. Greece can go find their own way, if that's what they want. Nobody is forcing them to do anything.
- w0utert 14y ago
  Great advice, you should take it yourself ;-)
  - kalms 14y ago
    Will do!
- novalis 14y ago
  That comment is wrong on so many levels.
Xylakant 14y ago
Europe (the woman) is often used to refer to Europe (the continent) in caricatures and paintings. I'd say neither of your interpretations is the real reason, though they're both amusing.

zalew 14y ago

Eurozone != Europe

UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
America != USA. But yet we all know what people mean because of the context.
- jonascopenhagen 14y ago
  The Eurozone is only 17 countries out of Europe's 50 countries. We're talking a combined population that's less than half of Europe's total population. So no, I don't think it's a fair comparison.
  - dfxm12 14y ago
    When you saw the headline did you honestly believe that these new banknotes were going to become the currency for all of Europe, and not the set of countries that actually shares a currency?

wilfra 14y ago

Why are French people always unwilling to speak English?

antr 14y ago
The video is in France, with a French citizen, why should they? Lets go to the SFMoMA and tell the staff to go on camera and speak in Italian because [insert unsubstantiated claim].
- wilfra 14y ago
  For the same reason everybody who wasn't French in that video used English - it's the international language of business. Also because most educated French people can speak it just fine, they just refuse to.
  - _delirium 14y ago
    Many French people I've met are very unconfident about their spoken English, so prefer to avoid it if possible. Reading and writing is fine, but they worry that nobody will be able to understand their speech, or that they'll make an embarrassing gaffe.
    - jvzr 14y ago
      Indeed. We are very aware of our flaws and almost ashamed of our french accent. Some know it may be an asset elsewhere (especially cause some people find it charming), but the whole rest prefer to avoid it. I don't think it's intentionally targeted at the English, kind of like a revenge for some Napoleonian shenanigan or whatever. Just damn aware that we speak badly.
    - raverbashing 14y ago
      They are usually right, unfortunately And their accent still shows (like a sore thumb) even when their English is good. Same for English speaking people speaking French. (Except Canadians, I think their French accent is a kind of 'impedance matching') I think I saw a couple of French people with very good English and almost no accent though.

TomPC 14y ago

Also working, change the minutes in 01 with firebug and wait for 1 min, then video will start.

pilsetnieks 14y ago

I'm hoping they will be plastic, although it doesn't seem likely. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote)

4ad 14y ago
I hope not. Coming from a country with plastic notes, euros are a blessing. Plastic is, well, plastic. If you deform it, which is very easy, it will stay that way forever. You can't straighten it up. Notes don't stack together nicely anymore, because each note shows a different pattern of wear and tear. Notes are supposed to be durable, but are extremely easy to chip on a side, and when that happens, they simply split in two. This usually happens with larger notes. When I get money from the ATM, 10% of the notes are chipped on a side and I have to use scotch tape to fix them. Best note material is what dollars use. Plastic notes stacks are also much harder to count fast, they don't stick to your fingers, instead they stick together. If they are even slightly wet the problem is exacerbated.
- jeltz 14y ago
  I think the kind of paper used in the SEK is even better than the one used in the USD. Compared to Swedish notes most currencies I have used have felt tacky. The USD is ok though.
- zuppy 14y ago
  We're using plastic money in Romania for more than 10 years, and I honestly haven't seen a single case of your problem with chipped sides. Maybe there are different technologies available?
  - 4ad 14y ago
    I come from Romania, I used to get my money from ING ATMs.
  - analog 14y ago
    Never seen these problems with Australian notes either, if anything they seem much more durable than paper notes. And you can take them to the beach.

smackfu 14y ago

Wow, that's a confusing website. Showing the old banknote designs all over the new banknote site is a bad choice. Does anyone just have a link to what the new 5 euro looks like?

Svip 14y ago
It hasn't been revealed yet. Which is sort of the point.
aSig 14y ago
There's a good comparison of the old and new note side-by-side here http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/Euro-banknotes/Compare/Compare-both-5-banknotes/Superimpose http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/Euro-banknotes/Compare/Comp...
- jcfrei 14y ago
  it's funny how they messed up the reflection on the back side of the 5€ bill (try adjusting the slider).
- smackfu 14y ago
  Which language has EURO as EBPO? Must be one of the new ones.
  - jaimebuelta 14y ago
    Bulgarian, as they use Cyrillic alphabet.

taneliv 14y ago

I waited for 3 full minutes for the countdown to finish and all I get is a black popup with "Live - iPhone" at the bottom. Not sure if this is the dramatic ending of the euro, or just a technical problem ...

bartkappenburg 14y ago

Here it is: https://twitter.com/bartkappenburg/status/289398165185105920/photo/1 https://twitter.com/bartkappenburg/status/289398165185105920...

jasonkester 14y ago

Frustrating that you need to open two browser windows if you want to compare bills side by side, since it reverts to the front side when you flip between new and old. As the bill itself, I could see myself missing the 5's in the corners. That's standard for pretty much every currency everywhere for a reason. It lets you quickly figure out what you're looking for, even rifling a wallet or when it's folded. I guess they figure the giant "5!!!" covering half the bill will do the trick, but folded into my money clip, I only get half a number (obscured behind the clip itself) or no number at all, depending on which side I happen to be looking at. Incidentally, I've been on Euros & Pounds for half a decade now, and I wouldn't be able to tell you what bill is what color, so having a big empty blueish-grey sheet of paper pointing at me wouldn't help either. My only hope in the moneyclip scenario would be to have other denominations side-by-side so I could do a size comparison.

jaimebuelta 14y ago
Do you need to see the 5 to know is a 5 Euro note? I mean, it's different in color and size from the other Euro notes, which to me makes the difference more than the printed number...