Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/17Cja_fDmOOW6FfFRoq-lvzRoLDL3_2FJaXCCdaiqFj8/edit?usp=sharing This video was made before the election, so for the record I would like to say that I am very happy with the design of the Euro and I would really, really not like to go back to the Gulden.
Less Islam in Europe would be great tho. Saying this as a child of refugees who came to the Netherlands fleeing persecution from Islam because we are Christian’s.. there’s no fighting against someone willing to die for his cause…
Super pendantic mode: We HAD the best money, not HAVE. And yeah, my god, what the hell did people vote for ... We're self-destructive on a societal level, aren't we?
"you're not just handing them a banknote, you're handing them a flower." this is a really beautiful quote, i think it shows the extent as to how much we communicate through symbols in our every day life.
And in germany you call fake money blossoms (blüten) soo better don’t do that here.. Very nice money, the euro isn’t that attractive. I think the coins are ok with all the different variants but the paper money is just meh.
In 1974, as a teenager, I traveled with my parents from New York to, among other places, Amsterdam, a very standard tourist trip. The Dutch banknotes, issued just a few years before at that time, were dazzling, especially for me as someone from the US used to the almost monochrome greenback-so much so that I kept a TIEN GUILDEN note 1:08 with its Spirograph-like geometric designs. I still have it to this day, close to half a century later, my only souvenir of that trip.
Hah, I used to do this in my teens in the 90ies.. Basically a note that I will never spend, maybe in case of emergency, but looking new, carefully folded, with some beautiful colors..
This is some of the greatest design work I have ever seen. Oxenaar made no compromises and left his own personal easter-eggs in the notes themselves. Legend
@@pbilk which is being used around the world to dictate what countries can do. Honestly, countries like India or China have the right to dedollarization despite America saying their violating international law or whatever when Western countries are doing that
I actually dind't think the personified banknotes looked "bad" or "comical", just that it was a different artistic style. I do love his desings. In Brazil we also use animals in our notes, instead of people! I always think it is very nice to have the wild life instead of individuals.
Costa Rica banknotes on the backside are beautiful! especially the now discontinued 50000 colones with the blue butterfly. I've managed to get two of those!
As a dutchie who was born after the Euro was introduced, I am happy you made this video. I never knew all this! I honestly have never even seen any of the designs. Hearing Jort Storm was a surprise too.
Bro same. Always had my parents talk about how the gulden was better, and although I'm not sure of it value wise since I suck at economy like that, I do now get that at least the designs were so much more fun.
There is still one more land in europe that has beautiful colorful money, which is the Czech Republic. Well, not for long, they will accept the euro eventually.
I always thought the coloring was a common thing. It seems Norway had this at least partly since 1818, but a more consistent one like the Dutch since 1877. The scheme has been somewhat (but not quite) the same sorted by increasing denomination: blue (5/10 later 200), yellow (10), green (50), red/brown (100), brown/violet (500), orange/yellow/violet (1000).
Shame Norway hardly uses cash anymore nowadays. I adore the Swiss banknotes, especially with the current series where you can use an app to point your camera at it and see all the security and design features!
@@KevinKickChannel Does the banknote itself provide all the information to look up the security features, or does the app contain the association between a recognized banknote and pointers to the security info?
This has totally convinced me, which I did not expect. We have an elementary school near us that was just changed because the old name was connected to a bad guy - I'm convinced that if I were Dutch, I would get my dream and it would have been renamed to Stegosaurus Elementary.
I was very young when we changed to the Euro here in The Netherlands. I basically grew up only knowing the Euro so I love having watched this video, and understand more about when family or colleagues are reminiscing about the Gulden banknotes. Thank you Tom Scott also for recommending this video in your newsletter
Brazil has been doing similar to this for decades now ever since they switched to the Brazilian Real. Each bank note has a different animal, usually found in the Amazon. It's an awesome design. The only bank note that had a face (which was a statue if i remember correctly, statue of David?) was the 1 Real, which they eventually switched the bank note for the 1 Real coin instead. The 1 Real bank note is a popular collector's item in Brazil, since the last batch issued was around early-mid 2000's
The face is called Efígie da República, it's a personification of the Brazilian Republic, it still is in all Real bank notes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ef%C3%ADgie_da_Rep%C3%BAblica en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_real
australia did a pretty good job of our banknotes when we went to polymer notes in the 1990s! plenty of security features, a cool transparent window, distinct colours, and fairly unproblematic people! personally my favourite bit was the patent drawings of David Unaipon's sheep shearer on the $50 - i'm sad it's not on the latest set of notes (though I do appreciate those too!)
Australian money also has a lot of very similar design and security features, and we have also been praised as having some of the best banknotes in the world, which are currently in circulation. After watching this excellent vid, I encourage people to also check out our banknotes too! With love to the Netherlands and their beautiful banknotes,
Yeah, we invented the polymer bank note. Which is far more secure and durable than paper or cloth. Not gonna lie tho, the 250 gulden note is one of the coolest notes I've seen, and I wish we had designs like it.
Australian notes are pretty great and have some nice icons despite all having portraits. It would be interesting to see some without portraits though, I found these Dutch depictions of nature very striking and a nice reminder of a country's natural beauty.
@@boodashaka2841NZ uses Australian Polymer notes too. They used them first with us. Australia switched in 1996, and NZ in 1999. 45 countries now use Polymer Notes based on the design that was invented in Australia with help from Melbourne University, the CSIRO and the Australian Reserve Bank. NZ, China, Canada, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Morocco, Taiwan, Botswana, are just some of the 45 countries.
So, this is with a bit of nostalgia speaking but I think the sunflower fifty guilder note is one of if not the most beautiful banknote to have existed. And I can fondly remember getting my first two hundred fifty note. Both as an achievement and because it’s beautiful too, you just didn’t see those around very often. I still have a picture of that occasion back in the day. Hahah
I really don't think he did, though. I can see both in money from 1916 (look up "20 marek polskich" and tell me that red wasn't bright). Likewise big numbers. I don't think it was all that revolutionary. I think he just made pretty, modern and unique designs.
Australia had put similar notes into circulation the year before these came out. Still traditional in that they had people on the as well as animals / buildings etc. But bright colours, distinct colour per note, big numbers etc. And they'd been using different colour per denomination since the 1920's.
I think the sunflower 50 guilder is the greatest banknotes ever. However these notes were not the first to have single bold colour. The Dutch series you feature is from the 70s and 80s. Australian banknotes were already using bold single colours in the 60s (and there were probably others).
Being Dutch myself I find it a little hard that this video reeks of borderline nationalist fanboying over things as if they were totally revolutionary rather than merely great design Didn't people in the bronze age already put stuff like lions and oxen on their coins? Why act like this was the first time anyone in the world thought to bring animals, colour or symbolism onto money
Sorry, just looked at your Australian 60's notes. A 10 shilling, one pound, five pounds and ten pounds note from that era. Nice yellow, red green and blue with brown borders and single color reverses that are actually a bit brighter, but not by much compared to the Dutch 50s money, which used multiple (3+) colors on both sides. We had a predominantly bright blue 10 gulder in that period, a red and orange 25, a boring brown 100 gulden and a multiple shades of green 1000. There was also a green and lilac 20 guilder note, but that was unpopular and quickly discontinued. The real bold colors came with the new 1966+ designs you saw in the video. I'd describe the difference as large as that between a Pieter Bruegel and a Piet Mondriaan painting. Incomparable.
Used to have the best paper money. It is incredible that it is already almost 22 years ago we switched to the Euro and said goodbye to our currency. It is also incredible to think that there is an enitre generation of adults that never ever touched that money (even though I never touched a 1000 gulden note myself :D). I am happy with the Euro (living in Portugal I would go crazy if I would have to change currency every time I visit my friends and family in the Netherlands). I had no idea about the backstory of our old money. I think you also missed a 5 gulden note, I am sure it changed once before it became a coin. Thanks for the nice trip down memory lane.
South africas notes have a nelson mandela portrait with a blankspace next to him which holds a water mark that shows when you hold the note up to the sun on one side and animals called the big five on the other side each with their own distinctive colours. R10-Rhino-green R20-elephant-orange R50-lion-red R100-buffalo-blue R200-leo[ard-yellow there's a lot more on them but that's the just of it.
@@hoogyoutube Maybe the Swiss took some inspiration from the Guilder 🤔? Especially starting with the 8th series (1995+) of Swiss Franc notes, colors and designs really started to "pop" (although even before, Swiss notes had a good amount of color).
@@hoogyoutube i agree the old ones were kinda meh, but the newest series is amazing. They are all unique on their own but are still clearly connected to each other. Mainly the hand and the globe of course. They are also easily recognizable by their vibrant colors and different sizes
The Vuurtoren is my favorite bank note, ever. I was in high school when it came out, and one of my mates brought one into class very soon after its release. We poured over it with magnifying glasses, put it under the microscope even, to study all its features. f250 was a lot of money back then, I am amazed his parents let him take the note to school!
Man, as someone who never got to grow up with the guldens, having only ever had the euro, kinda feeling bummed I never got to see or hold one. It’s neat to see how the design of the guldens helped with the later design of the euro. (Also suddenly hearing that background music made me think about Jort storm by slimecicle again, which is always a plus in my book)
@@ThePinkPearll That is the antillies guilders (which will be replaced with the Caribbean guilders), not the dutch guilders. And Aruba has its own Aruban Florint.
Especially the 250 with its lighthouse. It is almost more of an art piece than a "regular banknote". It would not look odd printed out as a poster in someone's living room.
@@vwtrollwell St.Maarten said that 10 years ago and it’s still there . I think it’s because of bad a relationship with the Curaçao government 🤷🏼 they never got along, so St.Maarten would have to depend on them to make the currency. So i think it will be there for a while and Aruba never took the dutch currency, that’s why I never mentioned them.
After years of waiting, I recently purchased the 1982, 50 gulden banknote. The artist in me felt elated when I layed eyes on the bee and sunflower. It's a beautiful piece of currency.
You should look at the Northern Ireland bank notes. They're vertical and have to work in a place where everything is so divisive they can't agree on a flag.
I collect banknotes and recently came across Dutch notes. They are very nice, and... different. The designs are striking and really eye catching. Not just another boring portrait of some dead person. But my favourite notes are the Swiss Francs. I loved the 8th issue with their textured pixelated feel.
I live on Curaçao, a country connected to the Netherlands die to gistoric events. We still have the gulden has currency here. We also still have those colors as seen in the video. The designs are nice but not as strike Ng as the original Dutch designs. Perhaps look them up on google
The man is a legend he added easter eggs in the frigging money. I mean the balls on this designer put every creative to think on the possibilities of design in every facet of the human capacity.
I got a collection of bank notes from pretty much all over the world due to my grandfather who travelled a lot for business. Included in that collection were a few different Dutch ones and they alongside Canadian were always very memorable and felt completely different than anything I’ve seen, thinking why does no other country do it? I still remember the sunflower design as most memorable note
...A prime example of Dutch Design! Such a shame as a Dutch Design fanboy i didn't even know about the design of the Guldens, so thanks a lot for this video!
Oxenaar was a briliant designer. His striking creative designs incorporated elements of humor. Moreso, he challenged every aspect of a traditional banknote design, in pursuit of creating more meaning and thought behind the dutch banknotes.
I am in the middle of the worst flu I’ve had in years. Everything feels is cold and painful. But your video brought me warmth and helped me to enjoy something beautiful.
it's really cool seeing this, growing up in Australia the distinct colors are a given and normal to me. the Australian bank notes are all color coordinated the same way these are.
Actually, the Romanian leu is the best and most resistant printed currency because it's made of synthetic polymer and not paper. Romania was the first country in Europe to issue a polymer note in 1999 and became the third country after Australia and New Zealand to fully convert to polymer by 2003.
@@benhetland576 Australia had a transparent window on the very first polymer note in the world, issued in 1988. The first polymer notes in Great Britain were *27 years* too late to be first.
My fellow Americans, this is what it looks like when you take joy in your profession. We're raised to follow rules in America, but not think for ourselves. And that's why prime time television has sucked for almost a decade, because the only creative person allowed to write for sitcoms was Chuck Lorre, who even though he climbed through the ranks at the classic series Roseanne, had to be convinced over a dozen seasons of however many shows he was given that misogyny really isn't hilarious! In other words, we're even dry of creativity according to Hollywood, when someone like that gets so much work. It's like we're raised to discourage personal joy and accept what we're given. Look how popular is Taylor Swift, and yet look at how many openly say they don't care for her music -- because it's laser focused on a very narrow, entitled demographic: the 14 year old princess. And 14 year old princesses have access to money. Creatively, the entertainment industry act like we'll accept whatever they give us and that we should be grateful for it. As if it's just a matter of finding a formula to control the masses. I can tell you from political fundraising and retail work, it's apparent to me that we all want the same basic things, but when we get into personalities we are all unique like leaves and snowflakes. Frankly I think this is to be celebrated. Even if it makes the advertising analyst's job harder; though the problem there, I'd say, is this idea that a company must focus on domination of the market ahead of the consistent quality of the product. I mean, McDonald's is inescapable in the United States, if you've ever driven across it, but do you eat there every day? Market domination of a company does not serve _any_ public purpose, in fact it creates a "too big to fail" scenario. If competition were regulated to work only between the product and service of the company, somehow (I have no idea how), where market manipulation somehow got ruled out as a factor, we might then enforce passion and creativity as primary market driving factors, by force. This is all brainstorming. But you should be able to see that when the company focuses on market dominance ahead of the product or service they're providing, the public suffers.
I find it funny that bank notes with animals on it are or were surprising. All Brazilian bank notes use local fauna almost exclusively, I believe it has been for 30 years since the new currency was created. Even the only face used is not of a particular person, it's a bust in classic style with laurea around the head. Those Dutch bank notes are beautiful.
@@hoogyoutube Fascinating, I was confused about why the speaker chose to change the way he pronounces "asking" immediately after saying it a differently. Seems to be an AI cock-up.
It’s so beautiful getting to know the origin story for colorful money. Here in Mexico is that colorful as well, but our portraits are not sketches, and now I kinda desire they were.
I remember the introduction of the Snip and the vuurtoren and especially the sunflower, since it was a new denomination (more easily obtainable than the fl. 250 banknote) when I was young. I distinctly remember the bright colors of the fl. 10 and 25, which we used a lot as youngsters in the 70s and 80s - back in the day when digital payments were not common or maybe not even invented yet. I am proud of the special designs by a talented Dutch designer. Thank you for teaching me his name: Oxenaar.
Wow I can’t believe he managed to sneak his children’s names into the bank note designs without anyone noticing?? That seems like no one at the bank was actually looking into the notes!
Amazing! The Brazilian Real kinda follow the same ideas, with one unique thing: they have different lengths to help the visually impaired even more. They’re color coded, and present an Efigy on one side and an animal on the other side. I find them very beautiful and creative!
While the artistic merits might be nice, I think these fail compared to Australian paper money in practical terms. It appears to be old-fashioned cotton paper which is grossly outdated compared to modern polymer banknotes. Every note is the exact same size which is poor for accessibility. Australian notes get larger as their value goes up, helping vision-impaired people tell apart their money. There are also tactile bumps along the edge of notes to further aid accessibility. The security features shown here were good, but still a step down from what's done with modern polymer banknotes and their clear strips, holograms, etc. Sorry. I'll simp for the Netherlands all day when it comes to urbanism and transport planning. But Australia has you beat with money design.
Another nice feature of the Gulden was that the bills were made to be accessible to visually impaired persons. For example, each bill had a distinct size (increasing in value), and each was embossed with symbols that you could feel with your fingertips identifying their value. These older, pre-90s overhaul bills were much more pleasing since they were simple in design and easily recognizable, i.e., very accessible. The ones introduced in the mid-90s were visually busy, and I didn't mind that the Euro eventually replaced them.
I love this video and are definitely going to check out the rest of your channel! Also, the way this video is made, edited and the voice-over is awesome, must have taken quite some time! Respect.
I always thought it was weird to have portraits on currency, maybe someone else has a different opinion Either way we won't see them in future because we have already started shifting to digital currency and digital transactions for everything due to their convenience
Throughout history, many countries had portraits of their rulers on currency. This is so every citizen would now the face of their rightfull ruler, who they would probably never see in real life. Roman emperors did this and medieval+ french kings
@@Singgen I agree because I believe that privacy is a very important human right, in the future some governments may give you the choice but some will force you to use digital money saying something like that it will end corruption or it will ensure tax is being paid but in reality it may be used for mass surveillance (like in china)
@@Singgen Using cash means free possibilities to money laundering, black labour and grand-scale fraud as well as governmental corruption. Having digital currency as an obligation is a safe route to battle against crime and corruption. Mass surveillance and privacy issues must be fought against, obviously, by strong democracies with privacy policies integrated in the constitution.
@@Someone-gx2sb Do you really trust government THAT MUCH? They control media and can manipulate how you think, they manipulate you. Democracy? Democracy works only when a country has strong middle class. Currently middle class worldwide is destroyed. Corporations rule and rule more aspects of our life. There are less people needed for them, no middle class. Government is always an enemy of a citizen. It always tries to undermine us.
And now we have the diarrhea Euro not only a total waste of paper but also the coins are made with such bad quality.. its hopeless.. we the Dutch hate it and hopefully we get our beloved Gulden back.. we miss it
Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/17Cja_fDmOOW6FfFRoq-lvzRoLDL3_2FJaXCCdaiqFj8/edit?usp=sharing
This video was made before the election, so for the record I would like to say that I am very happy with the design of the Euro and I would really, really not like to go back to the Gulden.
Tldr, fake Donald Trump won the elections in the Netherlands and he wants a dutch brexit
Tbh dont believe it
Imagine having to placate mentally ill ideologs salty about democracy not favoring their party of choice.
Less Islam in Europe would be great tho. Saying this as a child of refugees who came to the Netherlands fleeing persecution from Islam because we are Christian’s.. there’s no fighting against someone willing to die for his cause…
Super pendantic mode: We HAD the best money, not HAVE.
And yeah, my god, what the hell did people vote for ... We're self-destructive on a societal level, aren't we?
"you're not just handing them a banknote, you're handing them a flower." this is a really beautiful quote, i think it shows the extent as to how much we communicate through symbols in our every day life.
Considering the Dutch history with flowers, I would not be very pleased to receive that at all.
I remember using those banknotes they were really attractive.
Nah, you're passing down a state-sanctioned piece of paper. If you want to give a flower, the do it with a flower.
@@Snipergoat1 Definitely the comment I was hoping for! :D
And in germany you call fake money blossoms (blüten) soo better don’t do that here..
Very nice money, the euro isn’t that attractive. I think the coins are ok with all the different variants but the paper money is just meh.
In 1974, as a teenager, I traveled with my parents from New York to, among other places, Amsterdam, a very standard tourist trip. The Dutch banknotes, issued just a few years before at that time, were dazzling, especially for me as someone from the US used to the almost monochrome greenback-so much so that I kept a TIEN GUILDEN note 1:08 with its Spirograph-like geometric designs. I still have it to this day, close to half a century later, my only souvenir of that trip.
Hah, I used to do this in my teens in the 90ies.. Basically a note that I will never spend, maybe in case of emergency, but looking new, carefully folded, with some beautiful colors..
@@jeff__w I was born in 1972, and used those notes until the euro came.
I still miss them. I don't like the euro bills.
every Hoog video:
"Why the Dutch are absolutely better at everything in the whole history of humankind"
Why Dutch Food Sucks will come eventually. I promise
Not anymore
@@hoogyoutubestompot😂
I'd say we are, but that doesn't hold up anymore after the election result
@@hoogyoutubeit doesnt if i could eat broodjes hagelslag for the rest of my life i would
This is some of the greatest design work I have ever seen. Oxenaar made no compromises and left his own personal easter-eggs in the notes themselves. Legend
Props to the designer Hildegard. I like that the Euro bills are colourly distinct.
Me too!
also the size increases with the value! :D
Unlike the boring US Dollar.
@@pbilk which is being used around the world to dictate what countries can do. Honestly, countries like India or China have the right to dedollarization despite America saying their violating international law or whatever when Western countries are doing that
@@andrewreynolds912the person above was talking about the design, not the value.
I actually dind't think the personified banknotes looked "bad" or "comical", just that it was a different artistic style. I do love his desings.
In Brazil we also use animals in our notes, instead of people! I always think it is very nice to have the wild life instead of individuals.
So true, decision-makers always plaster old good guys of the past everywhere but current politicians are so corrupt, it's moot.
Costa Rica banknotes on the backside are beautiful! especially the now discontinued 50000 colones with the blue butterfly. I've managed to get two of those!
As a dutchie who was born after the Euro was introduced, I am happy you made this video. I never knew all this! I honestly have never even seen any of the designs.
Hearing Jort Storm was a surprise too.
Peppy?
I'm so happy I wasn't the only one that heard Jort Storm
Bro same. Always had my parents talk about how the gulden was better, and although I'm not sure of it value wise since I suck at economy like that, I do now get that at least the designs were so much more fun.
There is still one more land in europe that has beautiful colorful money, which is the Czech Republic. Well, not for long, they will accept the euro eventually.
@@Influfferious you guys constantly change your money so that I can't use it anymore when I visit the country some years later.
Fool me once...
As a norwegian i love my banknotes. The new ones have many similar design features and philosophies that these dutch ones had
Yes! Clearly inspired.
Seems like the Dutch are always a few decades ahead (ignoring the recent election result... 🫣)
I always thought the coloring was a common thing. It seems Norway had this at least partly since 1818, but a more consistent one like the Dutch since 1877. The scheme has been somewhat (but not quite) the same sorted by increasing denomination: blue (5/10 later 200), yellow (10), green (50), red/brown (100), brown/violet (500), orange/yellow/violet (1000).
Shame Norway hardly uses cash anymore nowadays. I adore the Swiss banknotes, especially with the current series where you can use an app to point your camera at it and see all the security and design features!
@@KevinKickChannel Does the banknote itself provide all the information to look up the security features, or does the app contain the association between a recognized banknote and pointers to the security info?
@@theChoffa Maybe they are still ahead, you just don’t realise it 😉
You don’t know what Europe will look like in 50 years.
This has totally convinced me, which I did not expect. We have an elementary school near us that was just changed because the old name was connected to a bad guy - I'm convinced that if I were Dutch, I would get my dream and it would have been renamed to Stegosaurus Elementary.
Convinced you of what?
of the title of the video, which you can find above this comment@@SamyasaSwi
@@PhilEdwardsInc ooh okay
Hey Phil, love the videos
I would move immediately to that city so that my children could attend the illustrious Stegosaurus Elementary.
Didn't think I would be actually convinced that Dutch notes were genius. Great video!
I love the "Epstine didnt kill himself" reference at 8:40 pretty funny easter egg
I noticed that one too, lol
Came here to see if somebody else noticed it. Had to scroll for a while.
@@JohnHagenis_awesome same here :D
@@modestduck7545 This must have been put in by the documentary makers 😂
As an American, I am indifferent to who is on our banknotes.
I was very young when we changed to the Euro here in The Netherlands. I basically grew up only knowing the Euro so I love having watched this video, and understand more about when family or colleagues are reminiscing about the Gulden banknotes.
Thank you Tom Scott also for recommending this video in your newsletter
8:40 The micro printing is so detailed to the point it’s something to die for…
Damn youuuuu!! I thought I was the first to catch that!!!
haha nice to see that Im not the only one to notice this hidden detail. Really sneaky, I like it.
as a non us citizen im just gonna be glad i dont understand that controversy
it was discrete but eye catching.
I knew I wasn't the only one to notice!!
Brazil has been doing similar to this for decades now ever since they switched to the Brazilian Real. Each bank note has a different animal, usually found in the Amazon. It's an awesome design. The only bank note that had a face (which was a statue if i remember correctly, statue of David?) was the 1 Real, which they eventually switched the bank note for the 1 Real coin instead. The 1 Real bank note is a popular collector's item in Brazil, since the last batch issued was around early-mid 2000's
The face is called Efígie da República, it's a personification of the Brazilian Republic, it still is in all Real bank notes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ef%C3%ADgie_da_Rep%C3%BAblica
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_real
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australia did a pretty good job of our banknotes when we went to polymer notes in the 1990s! plenty of security features, a cool transparent window, distinct colours, and fairly unproblematic people! personally my favourite bit was the patent drawings of David Unaipon's sheep shearer on the $50 - i'm sad it's not on the latest set of notes (though I do appreciate those too!)
hoog is a work of art
This is not a video. It's an aesthetic visual and musical journey. So mesmerizing.
Australian money also has a lot of very similar design and security features, and we have also been praised as having some of the best banknotes in the world, which are currently in circulation. After watching this excellent vid, I encourage people to also check out our banknotes too!
With love to the Netherlands and their beautiful banknotes,
Yeah, we invented the polymer bank note. Which is far more secure and durable than paper or cloth. Not gonna lie tho, the 250 gulden note is one of the coolest notes I've seen, and I wish we had designs like it.
Our latest NZ money is pretty solidly designed as well imo
Australian notes are pretty great and have some nice icons despite all having portraits. It would be interesting to see some without portraits though, I found these Dutch depictions of nature very striking and a nice reminder of a country's natural beauty.
@@boodashaka2841NZ uses Australian Polymer notes too. They used them first with us. Australia switched in 1996, and NZ in 1999. 45 countries now use Polymer Notes based on the design that was invented in Australia with help from Melbourne University, the CSIRO and the Australian Reserve Bank. NZ, China, Canada, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Morocco, Taiwan, Botswana, are just some of the 45 countries.
Pure nostalgia! Still have a sunflower framed on the wall here, together with the first 20 euro I ever took out of an ATM.
Wow those vertical designs are so different from what he have now, I would love the euro to have those
So, this is with a bit of nostalgia speaking but I think the sunflower fifty guilder note is one of if not the most beautiful banknote to have existed.
And I can fondly remember getting my first two hundred fifty note. Both as an achievement and because it’s beautiful too, you just didn’t see those around very often.
I still have a picture of that occasion back in the day. Hahah
Using color to help people identify each denomination is a beautiful design choice, definitely my favorite part about it.
Most countries do this and always have 😂
Amazing that he set the standard for "bright colors" and "big numbers" on banknotes we see all over the world today.
I really don't think he did, though. I can see both in money from 1916 (look up "20 marek polskich" and tell me that red wasn't bright). Likewise big numbers. I don't think it was all that revolutionary. I think he just made pretty, modern and unique designs.
Australia had put similar notes into circulation the year before these came out. Still traditional in that they had people on the as well as animals / buildings etc. But bright colours, distinct colour per note, big numbers etc. And they'd been using different colour per denomination since the 1920's.
lol he did not set the standard
“Everyone has to walk around with my rabbit in their pocket. I like that.” That’s such a cute concept! Great editing throughly enjoyed it
feels egotistical
As a dutchman born in 1998 I've never had these in my hands. Thanks for showing me how beautiful these really were, I had no idea. Bedankt kerel.
I think the sunflower 50 guilder is the greatest banknotes ever. However these notes were not the first to have single bold colour. The Dutch series you feature is from the 70s and 80s. Australian banknotes were already using bold single colours in the 60s (and there were probably others).
Being Dutch myself I find it a little hard that this video reeks of borderline nationalist fanboying over things as if they were totally revolutionary rather than merely great design
Didn't people in the bronze age already put stuff like lions and oxen on their coins? Why act like this was the first time anyone in the world thought to bring animals, colour or symbolism onto money
@@maurice4348 small country syndrome? :)
cant even enjoy the little things in life@@maurice4348
Sorry, just looked at your Australian 60's notes. A 10 shilling, one pound, five pounds and ten pounds note from that era. Nice yellow, red green and blue with brown borders and single color reverses that are actually a bit brighter, but not by much compared to the Dutch 50s money, which used multiple (3+) colors on both sides. We had a predominantly bright blue 10 gulder in that period, a red and orange 25, a boring brown 100 gulden and a multiple shades of green 1000. There was also a green and lilac 20 guilder note, but that was unpopular and quickly discontinued. The real bold colors came with the new 1966+ designs you saw in the video. I'd describe the difference as large as that between a Pieter Bruegel and a Piet Mondriaan painting. Incomparable.
True. The Italian Lire also used colours, though they were not as bright as the Gulden.
This is one of the most beautifully designed videos I've seen on TH-cam.
Used to have the best paper money.
It is incredible that it is already almost 22 years ago we switched to the Euro and said goodbye to our currency. It is also incredible to think that there is an enitre generation of adults that never ever touched that money (even though I never touched a 1000 gulden note myself :D).
I am happy with the Euro (living in Portugal I would go crazy if I would have to change currency every time I visit my friends and family in the Netherlands).
I had no idea about the backstory of our old money. I think you also missed a 5 gulden note, I am sure it changed once before it became a coin.
Thanks for the nice trip down memory lane.
Bank :What is your motivation?
Him : Monopoly Money.
Bank : Seems legit.
Classic Dutch moment when we built replicas of the fake bridges on displayed on Euro banknotes. They can be seen today in Spijkenisse.
South africas notes have a nelson mandela portrait with a blankspace next to him which holds a water mark that shows when you hold the note up to the sun on one side and animals called the big five on the other side each with their own distinctive colours.
R10-Rhino-green
R20-elephant-orange
R50-lion-red
R100-buffalo-blue
R200-leo[ard-yellow
there's a lot more on them but that's the just of it.
In Brazil we have our native animals printed on our money too, very nice
It's so refreshing to see a TH-cam channel not use infantile thumbnails.
It feels like we're missing / forgetting Swiss Franc banknotes and their designs and bright colors.
Norwegian banknotes are also nice!
Swiss banknotes were pretty mid (I think) when these banknotes were released. Now they're some of the best (I think)
@@hoogyoutube Maybe the Swiss took some inspiration from the Guilder 🤔?
Especially starting with the 8th series (1995+) of Swiss Franc notes, colors and designs really started to "pop" (although even before, Swiss notes had a good amount of color).
@@hoogyoutubeAustralia and NZ bank notes are the best
@@hoogyoutube i agree the old ones were kinda meh, but the newest series is amazing. They are all unique on their own but are still clearly connected to each other. Mainly the hand and the globe of course. They are also easily recognizable by their vibrant colors and different sizes
The Vuurtoren is my favorite bank note, ever.
I was in high school when it came out, and one of my mates brought one into class very soon after its release. We poured over it with magnifying glasses, put it under the microscope even, to study all its features. f250 was a lot of money back then, I am amazed his parents let him take the note to school!
I love that the translations are not ontop of the original audio!
Thank you for that it’s been bothering me, across all media, for Years.
So they brought design concepts of postcards to currency notes? It's a really bold move tbh.. Amazing!
Man, as someone who never got to grow up with the guldens, having only ever had the euro, kinda feeling bummed I never got to see or hold one. It’s neat to see how the design of the guldens helped with the later design of the euro.
(Also suddenly hearing that background music made me think about Jort storm by slimecicle again, which is always a plus in my book)
Go to the dutch Caribbean, we still use it!
@@ThePinkPearll That is the antillies guilders (which will be replaced with the Caribbean guilders), not the dutch guilders. And Aruba has its own Aruban Florint.
I never grew up with the Gulden, and I adore them. I love the looks.
Especially the 250 with its lighthouse. It is almost more of an art piece than a "regular banknote". It would not look odd printed out as a poster in someone's living room.
@@vwtrollwell St.Maarten said that 10 years ago and it’s still there . I think it’s because of bad a relationship with the Curaçao government 🤷🏼 they never got along, so St.Maarten would have to depend on them to make the currency. So i think it will be there for a while and Aruba never took the dutch currency, that’s why I never mentioned them.
After years of waiting, I recently purchased the 1982, 50 gulden banknote. The artist in me felt elated when I layed eyes on the bee and sunflower. It's a beautiful piece of currency.
That was a great ad break! Usually I skip them but you did a great job at making it surprising and entertaining
We need this back. Bad.
You should look at the Northern Ireland bank notes. They're vertical and have to work in a place where everything is so divisive they can't agree on a flag.
The lighthouse and the sunflower are genuinely delightful on the eyes. I LOVE the idea of handing someone a flower when you pay them, how cute.
I collect banknotes and recently came across Dutch notes. They are very nice, and... different. The designs are striking and really eye catching. Not just another boring portrait of some dead person.
But my favourite notes are the Swiss Francs. I loved the 8th issue with their textured pixelated feel.
I live on Curaçao, a country connected to the Netherlands die to gistoric events. We still have the gulden has currency here. We also still have those colors as seen in the video. The designs are nice but not as strike Ng as the original Dutch designs. Perhaps look them up on google
The man is a legend he added easter eggs in the frigging money. I mean the balls on this designer put every creative to think on the possibilities of design in every facet of the human capacity.
Your videos are pieces of art, thank you for all the effort when making these! Zo lekker!!
never thought I would hear Jort Storm in a hoog video
Gorgeous video as always.
Though I couldn't stop imagining a startled man running from a certain Jort Storm at 9:10 .
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I got a collection of bank notes from pretty much all over the world due to my grandfather who travelled a lot for business. Included in that collection were a few different Dutch ones and they alongside Canadian were always very memorable and felt completely different than anything I’ve seen, thinking why does no other country do it? I still remember the sunflower design as most memorable note
Brazilian banknotes from 1994 on are also pretty good, I'd say. Probably took some inspiration from the Gulden, for using colors and animals
4:25 The idea of trading flowers is very inspiring and truly beautiful.
The bird- and sunflower notes were my favorites.
This reminds me of the "new" Swiss Franc notes that als follow this colour pattern and look stunning too.
You're videos are art!
Insane renderings and animations dude!
that is some ancient logic for bank notes pictures, a flower ,a bird, a lighthouse.
This videos gonna get hella views for sure
...A prime example of Dutch Design!
Such a shame as a Dutch Design fanboy i didn't even know about the design of the Guldens, so thanks a lot for this video!
"Everybody has to walk around with my rabbit in their pocket. I like that."
I like that too
Oxenaar was a briliant designer. His striking creative designs incorporated elements of humor. Moreso, he challenged every aspect of a traditional banknote design, in pursuit of creating more meaning and thought behind the dutch banknotes.
As a proud swiss citizen, i have to say that our swiss franc might be the best paper money currently.
This video gives really strong vibes of one where the description should read "this is my participation video for something something competition"
The Dutch know that you can't skimp on the paper if you wanna roll a good blunt.
I am in the middle of the worst flu I’ve had in years. Everything feels is cold and painful. But your video brought me warmth and helped me to enjoy something beautiful.
It reminds me of the Mexican peso, I love the current design of the 50$ bill with its axolotl, it fits the same philosophy in my opinion
it's really cool seeing this, growing up in Australia the distinct colors are a given and normal to me. the Australian bank notes are all color coordinated the same way these are.
Hey Hoog, have you considered creating a video highlighting Australia's groundbreaking achievement in inventing the first polymer banknotes?
Another Hoog video. This week is a great week.
Actually, the Romanian leu is the best and most resistant printed currency because it's made of synthetic polymer and not paper. Romania was the first country in Europe to issue a polymer note in 1999 and became the third country after Australia and New Zealand to fully convert to polymer by 2003.
Papua new Guinea has plastic bills as well.
@@erbalumkan369 So do Australia and New Zealand. Romania is the first country in Europe to have plastic/polymer bills.
And I believe Great Britain followed up by being the first to have _transparent_ parts on their notes.
@@benhetland576 Australia had a transparent window on the very first polymer note in the world, issued in 1988. The first polymer notes in Great Britain were *27 years* too late to be first.
@@erbalumkan369 PNG was one of Australia's first and longest standing customers for the polymer notes printed in Australia.
The quality of the video montage is out of this world.
That looks so fkin nice, i wish u could do a video about the Brazilian Real, its a very well designed money too
I went to Costa Rica this year and was amazed at how cool their currency, their weird plastic feeling cash. Very good looking money, look it up.
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My fellow Americans, this is what it looks like when you take joy in your profession. We're raised to follow rules in America, but not think for ourselves. And that's why prime time television has sucked for almost a decade, because the only creative person allowed to write for sitcoms was Chuck Lorre, who even though he climbed through the ranks at the classic series Roseanne, had to be convinced over a dozen seasons of however many shows he was given that misogyny really isn't hilarious! In other words, we're even dry of creativity according to Hollywood, when someone like that gets so much work. It's like we're raised to discourage personal joy and accept what we're given. Look how popular is Taylor Swift, and yet look at how many openly say they don't care for her music -- because it's laser focused on a very narrow, entitled demographic: the 14 year old princess. And 14 year old princesses have access to money.
Creatively, the entertainment industry act like we'll accept whatever they give us and that we should be grateful for it. As if it's just a matter of finding a formula to control the masses. I can tell you from political fundraising and retail work, it's apparent to me that we all want the same basic things, but when we get into personalities we are all unique like leaves and snowflakes. Frankly I think this is to be celebrated. Even if it makes the advertising analyst's job harder; though the problem there, I'd say, is this idea that a company must focus on domination of the market ahead of the consistent quality of the product. I mean, McDonald's is inescapable in the United States, if you've ever driven across it, but do you eat there every day? Market domination of a company does not serve _any_ public purpose, in fact it creates a "too big to fail" scenario.
If competition were regulated to work only between the product and service of the company, somehow (I have no idea how), where market manipulation somehow got ruled out as a factor, we might then enforce passion and creativity as primary market driving factors, by force. This is all brainstorming. But you should be able to see that when the company focuses on market dominance ahead of the product or service they're providing, the public suffers.
I find it funny that bank notes with animals on it are or were surprising. All Brazilian bank notes use local fauna almost exclusively, I believe it has been for 30 years since the new currency was created. Even the only face used is not of a particular person, it's a bust in classic style with laurea around the head. Those Dutch bank notes are beautiful.
what a cool thing. this taught me a lot as a product designer. since bank notes are a kind of product in their own way
Zeer toffe video! En weer erg mooi en goed gemaakt.
This is actually one of the best videos that I have ever seen. The artist was so clever.
swiss bank notes are great
They're like a cross between pop art and play money which makes them very attractive and likable.
Great looking informative video.
amazing video yet again from hoog.
where do you keep finding these topics?
also, could you share where you got the recordings from the designer?
Topics come from my grandparents, ngl. Recordings are AI generated from a lecture that the designer gave.
@@hoogyoutube Fascinating, I was confused about why the speaker chose to change the way he pronounces "asking" immediately after saying it a differently. Seems to be an AI cock-up.
It’s so beautiful getting to know the origin story for colorful money. Here in Mexico is that colorful as well, but our portraits are not sketches, and now I kinda desire they were.
mexican bank notes are beautiful!
fuck yeah, president 2:53
I remember the introduction of the Snip and the vuurtoren and especially the sunflower, since it was a new denomination (more easily obtainable than the fl. 250 banknote) when I was young. I distinctly remember the bright colors of the fl. 10 and 25, which we used a lot as youngsters in the 70s and 80s - back in the day when digital payments were not common or maybe not even invented yet.
I am proud of the special designs by a talented Dutch designer. Thank you for teaching me his name: Oxenaar.
8:42 EPSTEIN WHAT
What a incredible editing
The "Epstein didn't kill himself" easter egg was on point
8:37
Wow I can’t believe he managed to sneak his children’s names into the bank note designs without anyone noticing?? That seems like no one at the bank was actually looking into the notes!
Old school American Money is the best, Morgan Dollars, Walking Liberties, Silver Certificates, amazing designs
Amazing! The Brazilian Real kinda follow the same ideas, with one unique thing: they have different lengths to help the visually impaired even more. They’re color coded, and present an Efigy on one side and an animal on the other side. I find them very beautiful and creative!
While the artistic merits might be nice, I think these fail compared to Australian paper money in practical terms.
It appears to be old-fashioned cotton paper which is grossly outdated compared to modern polymer banknotes.
Every note is the exact same size which is poor for accessibility. Australian notes get larger as their value goes up, helping vision-impaired people tell apart their money. There are also tactile bumps along the edge of notes to further aid accessibility.
The security features shown here were good, but still a step down from what's done with modern polymer banknotes and their clear strips, holograms, etc.
Sorry. I'll simp for the Netherlands all day when it comes to urbanism and transport planning. But Australia has you beat with money design.
The money is also from before the Euro so it makes sense they lack modern features. The design dates back to the 70s and 80s.
Banknote security features have come a long way in the last 50 odd years.
Another nice feature of the Gulden was that the bills were made to be accessible to visually impaired persons. For example, each bill had a distinct size (increasing in value), and each was embossed with symbols that you could feel with your fingertips identifying their value. These older, pre-90s overhaul bills were much more pleasing since they were simple in design and easily recognizable, i.e., very accessible. The ones introduced in the mid-90s were visually busy, and I didn't mind that the Euro eventually replaced them.
Still think that European countries should be allowed to have one side of the bill be country specific like the coins are.
yeah i like the 2 euro coins and their differences between countries
I love this video and are definitely going to check out the rest of your channel! Also, the way this video is made, edited and the voice-over is awesome, must have taken quite some time! Respect.
I always thought it was weird to have portraits on currency, maybe someone else has a different opinion
Either way we won't see them in future because we have already started shifting to digital currency and digital transactions for everything due to their convenience
Throughout history, many countries had portraits of their rulers on currency. This is so every citizen would now the face of their rightfull ruler, who they would probably never see in real life. Roman emperors did this and medieval+ french kings
Using digital currency means being controlled by government. Having cash as an option is a safe rout to preserve independence from goverment.
@@Singgen I agree because I believe that privacy is a very important human right, in the future some governments may give you the choice but some will force you to use digital money saying something like that it will end corruption or it will ensure tax is being paid but in reality it may be used for mass surveillance (like in china)
@@Singgen Using cash means free possibilities to money laundering, black labour and grand-scale fraud as well as governmental corruption. Having digital currency as an obligation is a safe route to battle against crime and corruption.
Mass surveillance and privacy issues must be fought against, obviously, by strong democracies with privacy policies integrated in the constitution.
@@Someone-gx2sb Do you really trust government THAT MUCH? They control media and can manipulate how you think, they manipulate you.
Democracy? Democracy works only when a country has strong middle class. Currently middle class worldwide is destroyed. Corporations rule and rule more aspects of our life. There are less people needed for them, no middle class. Government is always an enemy of a citizen. It always tries to undermine us.
And now we have the diarrhea Euro not only a total waste of paper but also the coins are made with such bad quality.. its hopeless.. we the Dutch hate it and hopefully we get our beloved Gulden back.. we miss it
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