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Could the Euro be any more boring? Four years on, a unified currency has made life convenient, but pictures of imaginary bridges and aqueducts instead of something tangible are unremittingly soporific. The bad old days of changing money all the time may have been annoying, but at least they weren't ugly.

In celebration of what used to be, here's an essay on the design of the old Dutch currency, long thought to be Europe's most colorful before the introduction of the Euro. There's also a catalog of what the different notes looked like, front and back. If that sparks some interest, check out banknotes.com--they've got plenty of, uh, money for sale, as well as a "Currency Museum", for anyone who needs to know what a 5000 Czech Crown note looks like right now.

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