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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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
Is a much more interesting but wholly unrelated sentence.
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 :)
Yeah, but the state quarters weren't produced in or otherwise exclusively released in those states