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New Euro Coin Released With MultiView Effect 108

Posted by timothy from the newton-would-be-proud dept.
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."
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New Euro Coin Released With MultiView Effect

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  • Adobe (Score:5, Funny)

    by moosesocks ( 264553 ) on Monday February 23, 2004 @07:24PM (#8368280) Homepage
    Wow. Adobe's going to have a hard time with this one.

    Wait a sec... whose side ARE they on?

  • That's kind of cool... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by FlyingOrca ( 747207 ) on Monday February 23, 2004 @07:27PM (#8368313) Journal
    ...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.

  • I'm speechless (Score:3, Funny)

    by narftrek ( 549077 ) on Monday February 23, 2004 @07:28PM (#8368326)
    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.

    • Let me help... (Score:5, Funny)

      by LordOfYourPants ( 145342 ) on Monday February 23, 2004 @07:30PM (#8368350)
      How long until someone imprints goatse into the third visual phase of the coin as a prank?

    • Re:I'm speechless (Score:3, Funny)

      by Otter ( 3800 )
      Wow. I can't think of one funny or smartassed thing to say about this.

      Well, with 8 posts so far, three have managed to come up with something smartassed (funny has yet to be achieved) so it looks like you're lagging a little. Have you considered something along the lines of "But they'll have to pay SCO 699 Euros per coin for using their intellectual property!"?

    • Re:I'm speechless (Score:3, Interesting)

      by DustMagnet ( 453493 )
      Did you look at the video? I thought it looked really low quality. I assume that was ideal conditions for viewing. A baby photo on a coin? Can't you find anything there? I guess you're not much of a smartass.

      While I think it's really lame, I'm excited anyway. The EU lets each member state control only one side of the coin, the other is fixed. I see this as an opening shot. I look forward to the next member state that tries to do better than the Dutch. I like this better than when they used to kil

  • A real mint? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by RobertB-DC ( 622190 ) * on Monday February 23, 2004 @07:39PM (#8368444) Homepage Journal
    At first, I was thinking that "the Royal Dutch Mint" was a near-scam outfit like our homegrown Franklin Mint [franklinmint.com], 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 [en.knm.nl] 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 [pinballwizard.nl] -- unless someone's kid gets into Dad's coin collection again.

  • Just imagine the American version... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Gothic_Walrus ( 692125 ) on Monday February 23, 2004 @08:22PM (#8368912) Journal
    Now we can have Washington, Lincoln, and...um...Fillmore all on the same coin!

  • New Coin Boosts Dutch Economy... (Score:5, Funny)

    by robdeadtech ( 232013 ) * on Monday February 23, 2004 @08:27PM (#8368962)
    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."

  • Next: advertizing! (Score:5, Funny)

    by psyconaut ( 228947 ) on Monday February 23, 2004 @08:49PM (#8369169)
    Imagine...take 10 Euros out of your pocket, and one of those images is MacDonalds, one Coca Cola, one Vodafone ;-)

    -psy

    • Re:Next: advertizing! (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Matthias Wiesmann ( 221411 ) on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @06:00AM (#8371891) Homepage Journal
      Actually, this happened years ago in France, some marketing company did put some advertising stickers on the old 10 French franc coins (~1.5 Euro). It was declared illegal and disappeared. God those coins were ugly and heavy.

      Italian 1000 lira notes were also used in strange ways, as they were not worth a lot (roughly 50 Euro cents), people used to scribble things on them, so you had currency with grocery lists, telephone numbers and doodles. Then again, telephone coins (200 liras) were nearly legal tender... [iltrogolo.it]

      God, when will slashdot support unicode, so I can use the euro symbol...

      • Yeah I remember those. As far as everyone was concerned, they WERE legal tender. Perhaps the government didn't approve of it, but we all know how free trade works, you can exchange goods for whatever you want. The first time I got one, though, I was mighty surprised; the cashier was then the surprised one when I asked for a coin and though he had made a mistake. Stupid Spaniards he probably thought :D

  • Awsome (Score:5, Funny)

    by Flozzin ( 626330 ) on Monday February 23, 2004 @09:23PM (#8369481)
    Now we can start to mint those Clinton, Hillary, Monica coins right away!

  • Taiwan 50 (Score:5, Interesting)

    by bruthasj ( 175228 ) <bruthasj@yaho o . c om> on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @12:31AM (#8370750) Homepage Journal
    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...
    • Check your phone book for your local coin dealer.
      In you are in an Euro country sometimes your local bank will get the 10 Euro coins in, or you can request that they get some for you, sometimes they can, but it may be harder to get a Netherland coin outside of the Netherland bank.
  • 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.
    • Can you be a "traditionalist" and a Republican at the same time?

    • It's times like these I'm glad I live in a country that doesn't put useless royalty on its money.

      At times like these, I think we have more important things to worry about than who's on our money, don't you?

    • Here in Britain, we tend to be traditionalists too. So the Monarchy stays.
    • The Dutch Royal family is a decent bunch -- and this comes from an Irish republican (in the classic sense, not the twisted Northern Ireland sense).

      They've made many contributions to Dutch society.

    • 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.

      Well, traditionally, for the lasr few thousand years, its been royalty on coins...
    • Actually, the coin's design is valuable. From a socio-political view, currency has a long history as a vehicle to assert national identity. Words and symbols on coins and paper remind citizens of their heritage and who they are as a people. Patriotism is a strong force, and at a time when European Union countries have been giving over buckets of autonomy to the EU (quite tangibly shown in the switch to the Euro) there is <b>comfort</b> in showing national symbols on coins like these. It's a way
      • "Besides, let's face it, babies are cute. Don't know that I've ever seen a baby on currency before."

        Sacagawea dollar. [usmintquarters.com]

        Now a serious mumistmatist will tell me that King Louis the Very Small was on a french coin in 1712.

      • In my opinion this is one of the ugliest baby-pictures I've seen in a long time. Since I live in Holland, I've seen it a million times on every possible newspaper and TV channel.

        Dutch currency used to have stylized portraits of royalty on them, but not photo-like material like this one does.

        From a technological standpoint, this coin is a very nice piece of work, but I for one would have been pleased with a different subject.

        One idea would have been the outline of the country, the outine of europe and

  • MultiView value (Score:4, Funny)

    by codeboost ( 603798 ) <codeboost.yahoo@com> on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @04:21AM (#8371628)
    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 ?

  • Thanks, Webmaster (Score:3, Informative)

    by anubi ( 640541 ) on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @05:11AM (#8371751) Journal
    For that pure generic mpg clip. [xs4all.nl]

    I can't say how frustrated I get when people put something on the web - which requires some special proprietary thing to view it.

  • It's called "Lenticular" not "MultiView Effect" (Score:5, Informative)

    by DrSkwid ( 118965 ) on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @06:15AM (#8371928) Journal
    As these websites will testify

    http://www.depthography.com/

    http://www.world3d.com/

    • Re:It's called "Lenticular" not "MultiView Effect" (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Lenticular printing requires a laminated lens to resolve the image at different angles. This coin seems to resolve without a lenticular screen. The process, while similar, is unique enough IMHO to be marketed using this new term. I've worked with lenticular printing and executives long enought to be happy for a process name that a suit can grok.

  • Those looney Dutch... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by jpop32 ( 596022 ) on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @06:55AM (#8372036)
    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 [rgaros.nl]

    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.

    • Just today, I read that the Netherlands was the country where the people were the LEAST happy after the switch to the Euro, in comparison with other Euro countries.

      When it came, I was really happy about it: easier shopping across the border (Germany is 10 km. away from where I live), less hassle during vacation abroad, easier payment to/from other Euro countries, and a big, strong currency (check Dollar-Euro rates lately). I still feel that way.

      But the money & coins themselves: worthless! Okay, it'

      • > Just today, I read that the Netherlands was the country where the people
        > were the LEAST happy after the switch to the Euro, in comparison with
        > other Euro countries.

        Okay, but how much common sense can you expect out of a people who live
        below sea level within a stone's throw of the sea? I suspect they have to
        be a little bit wild and crazy just to keep their sanity.

  • I have to know (Score:3, Funny)

    by alan_dershowitz ( 586542 ) on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @11:27AM (#8374283)
    Is it ribbed for my protection or my pleasure?

  • Spains 500 Ptas coin had this one too... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    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 p

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