I've been around coloured money for a while, but I was surprised by the Euro. Not that it's different colours or has a holographic strip, but that the bills are actually different sizes. Strange. The bigger the bill, the bigger the denomination. Not that I have seen a large sample to based that hypothesis on. I guess that's a good system for seeing impaired people. I just thought that was pretty cool.
Canadian bills are actually different sizes too. Just not so much of a difference in size. I think that the common denominations are all the same size though. $1000 bills are significantly bigger than the other ones. Although they may have removed those from circulation. American bills are all the same size if I recall correctly. There was problems with this where people would upgrade their bills by bleaching a $1 bill, and printing a $20 bill on it. That was one easy way to get the right kind of paper. There's now measures in place to block against bleaching currency.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem with different size bills is that holding them in a wallet is a pain. If you build the wallet big enough to hold the largest bill, then most of the time you have extra wallet, because you don't always carry around the largest denomination. Also, if you build the wallet to hold only denominations below a certain size, your wallet gets smaller, but larger denominations hang out the edge when you happen to be carrying them.