What? After my incredibly informative post on Eastern European banknotes, don’t I deserve an email?
OK sent to various folks, But no more. This is not the time or place for this sort of thing,
Thank you Samclem. Twenty pounders, photoshopped. Got it.
::: Gets e mail, opens attachment:::
I’m sorry what? Bank notes? There were bank notes in that picture?
Who knew?
If you look closely at the bank note, below the 000 is the word Twenty in script. photo shopped.
Could someone just post this note to photobucket and be done with it? :smack:
Yes, those are standard British twenty pound notes with the “250,000” photoshopped over the denominations. And set in an attractive framing device.
Ireland?? Well you got 1 out of 3 right.
:: Checks back in late. ::
Thanks for sending that. Although by the time work was over, others had found the answer.
Yup, they look photoshopped. The bank notes, I mean. Although it occurs to me that maybe they photoshopped the banknote once and then printed out multiple copies to be photographed all at one go. That would save work.
Um, Zimbabwe has dollars and Ireland has had Euros since 2001, punts prior to that. Neither would have had the Queen’s head on anything since independence. The Irish punt hasn’t suffered hyperinflation.
Maltese currency is Lira, the highest denomination note is Lm20. One Maltese Lira is worth more than £1 sterling. Maltese money hasn’t had the Queen on it for a long time. No more hyperinfaltion either.
That’s 0/3. Sorry.
I meant 1 out of 3 for Ireland. we did use the pound symbol.
I was trying to think of currencies that used the pound symbol, but weren’t necessarily pounds, as many pesos also use the dollar symbol.
If I were a nitpicking kind of guy, which I am, I would direct you to the difference, which is the one vertical stroke for the peso, as opposed to two for the dollar.
Cecil even did a piece on the origin of the dollar sign.