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Re: How about this change to our US currency
Author: Ernest H. Robl
Date: 04-21-2016 - 13:18
European countries typically featured artists and inventors rather than political figures on their currency. With the Euro, there is unified paper currency, but each country has its own coins.
(This is due to the fact that vending machines use pattern recognition for paper money but evaluate coins by size and weight.)
For example, in Austria, the one Euro coin features Mozart -- and you can even hear people say that something costs one or two Mozarts.
However, for many years -- prior to the introduction of the Euro -- the Austrian 20 Schilling bill, the lowest paper denomination and valued somewhere between $1-2 over the years, had the folloing images:
On the front, a portrait of Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802-1860), the civil engineer who designed an built Austria's Semmering railway (part of the Austrian Southern Railway between Vienna and Italy).
On the back one of the large curving viaducts of the Semmering line, considered Europe's first major mountain railroads. (Interestingly enough, the view was somewhat contemporary, in that the image shows catenary masts on the viaduct, and the line was not electrified until after WW II.)
I still have one of these bills.
So, yes, there has been money with a railroad motif. (Of course, the Utah version of the 50-state series of U.S. quarters depicted the Golden Spike locomotives.)
-- Ernest
(This is due to the fact that vending machines use pattern recognition for paper money but evaluate coins by size and weight.)
For example, in Austria, the one Euro coin features Mozart -- and you can even hear people say that something costs one or two Mozarts.
However, for many years -- prior to the introduction of the Euro -- the Austrian 20 Schilling bill, the lowest paper denomination and valued somewhere between $1-2 over the years, had the folloing images:
On the front, a portrait of Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802-1860), the civil engineer who designed an built Austria's Semmering railway (part of the Austrian Southern Railway between Vienna and Italy).
On the back one of the large curving viaducts of the Semmering line, considered Europe's first major mountain railroads. (Interestingly enough, the view was somewhat contemporary, in that the image shows catenary masts on the viaduct, and the line was not electrified until after WW II.)
I still have one of these bills.
So, yes, there has been money with a railroad motif. (Of course, the Utah version of the 50-state series of U.S. quarters depicted the Golden Spike locomotives.)
-- Ernest
