cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45113604
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/historymemes/p/806332/coins
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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I had no idea each country got to have their own euro design. That's cool as hell.
And they move around Europe, it's always cool to check your change and find a bunch of national coins in it
Gotta catch them all!!
There are even regional and eventbased graphics in the back.
There's one appreciating the efforts of the health care sector during the SARS pandemic.
Not as cool as giving everyone a fat cheque, but still a nice gesture.
US did this with state quarters in late 90s. These customized euros arrived early 2000s. Perhaps inspired? I'm not sure.
I think it was more like We had national currencies so let's at least keep national backsides of coins.
The paper money is the same btw
Where??? They were intwntionally vague and of fake bridges that evoke a feeling of a general area
The same in the sense that they are the same in each country. I see I put it ambiguously. Sorry.
All cool :)
Is a much more interesting but wholly unrelated sentence.
Yeah, but the state quarters weren't produced in or otherwise exclusively released in those states