{"id":296,"date":"2003-09-14T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-14T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=296"},"modified":"2003-09-14T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-14T13:11:00","slug":"money-money-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Money, money, money"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span>or no particular reason, I was looking around for scans of banknotes, probably driven by a link over at Metafilter (‘Ever seen a $100,000 bill?<\/a>‘).\n<\/p>\n

I ended up looking for the Dutch 25<\/a> and 100<\/a> guilders bills. The first one was released in 1989 and I fondly recall having one of the first 25 bills in my hand when I was attending a computer fair. A couple of Belgiums (Belgians?) were eager to accept those new bills because they thought it was just another great Dutch invention (I said this cynically: you have to know the history of Belgium and The Netherlands. In short: Belgium was once part of The Netherlands<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n

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As for the hundred bill: it was introduced in 1992 and I remember the support of the bills slightly waned when there were rumours that the bill wasn’t ‘waterproof’. It’s still a neat bill though: the first time I showed it to a bank in local Truro, they looked at me suspiciously. Gold and silver lining on a papernote? Go away! Too bad the scan<\/a> doesn’t really show all the glitter of the bill.\n<\/p>\n

But anyways, I didn’t know they had paper notes over at Antartica<\/a>. They’re just as colourful as the Dutch ones<\/a>. Naturally, I loved the European Euros when I saw them the first time<\/a>. You have to see them in real of course, to know what I mean: if there was a European version of the Monopoly game, those Euros would be my first choice. They’re just as tiny as they are shown in the scans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For no particular reason, I was looking around for scans of banknotes, probably driven by a link over at Metafilter (‘Ever seen a $100,000 bill?‘). I ended up looking for the Dutch 25 and 100 guilders bills. The first one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}