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New Euro Coin Released With MultiView Effect
Jacco de Leeuw writes "Remember those postcards that showed different pictures depending on the angle you looked at them? Royal Dutch Mint has placed a new 10 Euro coin into circulation today that exhibits a similar effect. They invented a new minting technique called MultiView Minting. One side of the coin shows photos of the Dutch heir to the throne, his wife and their newborn daughter Amalia. The three pictures were lasered onto 46 ribs, which is the number of chromosomes in a human cell. This clip shows the effect."
Wow. Adobe's going to have a hard time with this one.
Wait a sec... whose side ARE they on?
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
...but I wonder whether it will look as good once the ridges wear down. Sharp edges on coins get worn pretty smooth after a while.
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Wow. I can't think of one funny or smartassed thing to say about this. This has to be coolest coin tech to come out in years.
How long until someone imprints goatse into the third visual phase of the coin as a prank?
At first, I was thinking that "the Royal Dutch Mint" was a near-scam outfit like our homegrown Franklin Mint, churning out overpriced kitch like "The F-14 Tomcat Stars & Stripes" ($120 for a gaudy model airplane) and the $195 "Tribute to Leadership Commemorative Medal Collection", inspired by "President Reagan's most memorable speeches -- from his inaugural address to his moving farewell." 'Scuse me while I shudder in ph33r.
But as far as I can tell, these folks are the real thing -- they issue real money, *and* kitchy overpriced collectibles. Pretty cool. But it doesn't look like the three-image coins are going to turn up in the local arcade -- unless someone's kid gets into Dad's coin collection again.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Now we can have Washington, Lincoln, and...um...Fillmore all on the same coin!
Goo goo g'joob.
I can see it now...
"The Dutch Economy saw a sharp rebound today when space cake consumption more than tripled after the Royal Dutch Mint released "trippy" new coin design."
Heil Sig! -Rob
Imagine...take 10 Euros out of your pocket, and one of those images is MacDonalds, one Coca Cola, one Vodafone ;-)
-psy
Use an ATM. You get the best exchange rate (bank rate), and the surcharge isn't any more than withdrawing from an off-network ATM in the states. Even better, though, is to just use a credit card when you can. You don't have to worry about surcharges, you still get the best exchange rate, and (best of all), they often take care of refunding VAT (value added tax) for you.
"A witty saying proves nothing." --Voltaire
Now we can start to mint those Clinton, Hillary, Monica coins right away!
"Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin." --Teddy Roosevelt
I use a local AmEx office to change a few hundred dollars so I arrive at the airport with cash for taxis, food, etc.
Then I use credit cards as much as possible, but the rate you get can vary based on your bank, so you need to research that before you go.
I've had problems using ATMs on occasion in Europe, as have family and friends. Also once my wife had all her magnetic strips wiped somehow in travel, so she was happy to have cash until she could get a new card issued.
When I went to Japan, I got a much better exchange rate when I exchanged my US dollars for yen in Japan than my friend did when she exchanged hers here (Texas).
Wow that was a long sentence.
Thanks. But since I am going to Amsterdam I'll figure I'd need some cash as well. Although something like this would make a great ad:
5 grams of hash 60 Euros
Mushroom Caps 12 euros, each
Prostitute, Blonde 100 euros for half hour
Having a trip to amsterdam you only remember from your creditcard statements: priceless
Some things, money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. Accepted everywhere. Even Rasta Baby's.
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The Taiwanese 50 NT (1.50 USD) had this for years switching between the Arabic and Chinese numeral "50". And, it's not a collectors item, it's normal everyday currency. Sorry I don't have linkage or any more knowledge about the topic than this. Any takers on explaining?
where can I get one?
Wonder if it rubs off. Remember the first AU plastic $10 notes? They rubbed off...
It's times like these I'm glad I live in a country that doesn't put useless royalty on its money. Are these people really so important to distribute their pictures on currency? Maybe I'm just a traditionalist when it comes to money, but you should be putting important people who've contributed to the society on money, not royalty.
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BTW the prices you quote are a bit high.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
It would have been much nicer if they put that effect on the coin's value. You look from one angle, you have a 5 Euro coin, you look from another angle, you have a 50 Euro coin, etc. Shops would then accept regular coins and angles of MultiView coins. You show your coin at 60 degrees, the seller takes it and returns it to you at 30 degrees :). Wouldn't that be sweet ?
This story will give you an idea of the high employee standards at Taco Bell.
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I can't say how frustrated I get when people put something on the web - which requires some special proprietary thing to view it.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
Exchange rates in the US are horrible. Living in Europe, I can confirm that using your CC to exchange is indeed the best way. There are ATMs all over the place in Europe, but you probably will have some trouble using a VISA or Mastercard in stores, etc. There usually are minimum purchase limits if they take CC (~10-15 Euro). Of course, the more touristy a place is, the more likely it is to take credit cards (but prices will probably be higher, as well). Often, restaurants won't take cards (besides the European EC card), so be sure you have cash on hand.
As these websites will testify
http://www.depthography.com/
http://www.world3d.com/
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
The Dutch are prone to stuff like this.
:-)
Their paper money (before it was replaced by Euros) was the funkiest ever. Full color, groovy designs. Looked like techno party flyers to me. Take a look:
http://www.rgaros.nl/money/notes/index.html
I once had a funny incident on italian railways when the train conductor refused to accept a 100 guilder banknote. He didn't believe me it was legitimate money (neither did three of his coworkers). It sure didn't help that the exchange rates table he had said 'Holland' and on the banknote it was 'Nederland'.
So I had to get out at the next train station.
The Netherlands is one sweet country.
Don't worry, I'm sure they take USD at most coffee-shops...
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
Be sure to track your money when you're there :)
Yes, I also got more yen for the dollar at the airport in Osaka than I would have stateside (San Francisco, as the exchange at BWI wasn't open yet). Fortunately I'd been advised of this in advance.
I didn't change my leftover yen until I had been back a few weeks, had to go to an American Express office to do it only to find out that they would only change bills, not coins. So I've got about $25 worth of yen sitting on my dresser says "Come back to Japan and spend us!"
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Is it ribbed for my protection or my pleasure?
Spain's 500 Pesetas coin had this one too, more than a decade ago. It depicted the Mint's mark or the year when flipped. So you could read "M" (Madrid Mint's mark) or "93" (1993) for example
Later 2000 pesetas coins had that too, in limited series with complex drawings (although they costed exactly 2000 pesetas, they were sold in banks with no profit as they were legal tender just as every normal coin)
It was made to prevent currency falsification, as 500 pesetas were equivalent to 3 (~3.80 USD) and 2000 pesetas around 12 (~15.00 USD)
I'm confused - why were you sent to prison again?
They are legal currency, so if you get paid with it, shops and so on should accept these as normal money. Ofcourse most of these coins end up in storage boxes in peoples homes, never to be used again...
Usually, these special coins are made of silver, and the Royal Mint often creates a small number of 'extra beautiful' or gold coins, targeted at coin collectors.
A couple of months back, I paid a UPS delivery guy with a 5 Euro coin that was issued in honor of the 150th birthday of Vincent van Gogh, and there have been several 50 guilders coins in the past.
For many people, the birth of a princess was a very special and happy event, and the Royal Mint thought so too... :=))
Some do, sure. But like any other establishment, you're at the mercy of what they decide to offer for an exchange rate. And if you've just been visiting the coffee shop, what are the odds you'll notice how badly you've just been ripped off in the exchange?
If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up space!
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My hyperlinks aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
FYI, troll (or idiot) the government of the Netherlands is centre-right, basically very mild Republicans.
And, for some reason, the Dutch monarchy keep marrying fascists.
I wanna see an entire mountain done up this way.
Eat at Joe's.
7-bit ascii works fine. Just use html:
Sacagawea dollar.
Now a serious mumistmatist will tell me that King Louis the Very Small was on a french coin in 1712.
Using Mozilla 1.5 and xine, I streamed it just fine.
What's your beef then?
You can pay for all those things on your credit card anyway, so why bother with the ATM?
Maybe that's why dutch people seem to be mostly tall? :0)
There's already comments posted on how this is a lenticular technology.
More-or-less... lenticular media uses lenses to refract different areas of an image underneath to depict a particular image. You can still find these a lot in promotional materials, and even in some 3D display technologies.
Others have mentioned that this was already done on other coins. Also more-or-less. Those have always been two views as far as I can remember. Simply imagine a triangle - one side will have a slice from one picture, the other will have a slice from a different picture. Create an array of these and change the slice accordingly, and from one side you see image A, and the other side you see image B. Since you can only see one side at a time, this is very simple. It's so simple, in fact, that it has been used on speciality licorice.
However, this new commemorative coin depicts -three- views. As you may understand, this means that under any one angle, you should be able to see two sides of what basically amounts to a trapezium shape.
The trick is to make only one image be shown very strongly, rather than seeinig a blend between the two images.
If you watch the mpeg (! yay) you will see that the image really 'flips' and doesn't really blend (just a few frames where it is slightly ambiguous).
This is why it's innovative - it's doing something not quite as trivial as the existing technologies.