The Joke That Corrupted Europe's Currency
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2022
- One of the world's foremost currencies has a stickman on the back - but why?
"The euro (symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens as of 2019. The euro is divided into 100 cents.
The currency is also used officially by the institutions of the European Union, by four European microstates that are not EU members, the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, as well as unilaterally by Montenegro and Kosovo. Outside Europe, a number of special territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency. Additionally, over 200 million people worldwide use currencies pegged to the euro.
As of 2013, the euro is the second-largest reserve currency as well as the second-most traded currency in the world after the United States dollar. As of December 2019, with more than €1.3 trillion in circulation, the euro has one of the highest combined values of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world.
The name euro was officially adopted on 16 December 1995 in Madrid. The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on 1 January 1999, replacing the former European Currency Unit (ECU) at a ratio of 1:1 (US$1.1743). Physical euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making it the day-to-day operating currency of its original members, and by March 2002 it had completely replaced the former currencies.
Between December 1999 and December 2002, the euro traded below the US dollar, but has since traded at or above the US dollar, peaking at US$1.60 on 18 July 2008 and since then returning near to its original issue rate. On 13 July 2022, the two currencies hit parity for the first time in nearly two decades"
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Don't forget the 10 Euro Silver Coin
btw Kosovo also uses Euro
Maybe one on the disgruntled Fed Ex pilot who hacked up the flight crew so he could fly the plane into the Memphis hub.
I have had that coin in my hands twice, I was always wanting to know where it came from
@Qxir You should do a story on why the Unicorn is the National animal of Scotland. Seems a little strange to me.
I love how coins can be super meaningful and important and sometime it's just "Screw you, stickman time."
I want the "Get Stickbugged LOL" meme on the next coin
@Thank me later 🅥 S H U T B O T
that's captain stickman for you. boaty mcboatface's captain.
Henry Stickman
I think it accurately demonstrates EU citizens' deep connection to their beloved EU.
This has to be the most significant influence on European culture by the Greeks. I can't think of anything more important.
I mean seriously….what have the Rom…Greeks ever done for us then hey?!
@@thedudeabides3138 *Angry Hippocratic noises*
Child molestation?
Uh hello? I think some of you forgot Butt-s3x. I'd say many a greek has a lot to answer for, Europeans wouldn't know about it anyway. The Greeks blame the Turks, and the Turks blame the Greek Cypriots (nonsense) because they developed homosexuality independently, so everyone went over to Cyprus on the weekends with the boys, or the girls. On Mondays, those with the Cypriot sore "leg" was made fun of, playfully of course.
@@thedudeabides3138 MONTY PYTHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that the people in charge of this competition just went 'THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN!!' and went ahead producing the design like a boss, instead of pussing out and picking another design.
Looking at you, 'Boaty Mcboatface' committee.
Petition to do this for American currency
@@TranslucentGanon One of the coins would have a US flag on it and the other some sort of gun or truck. I bet the troll face would win by a landslide and it would not surprise me to see a bigfoot coin as a entry
This is why New Zealand never got the Laser Kiwi flag
@@staticbuilds7613The cryptid, or the monster truck?
@@Dom_MarettiBoth. Both are good
What I love about this, is the fact is that they accepted the winner and actually made coins with the design on it!
otherwise they would have to admit to anti democratic behaviour. if you let people have a vote you can't simply not take that vote into account.
well im sure they censored out a ton of even less appropriate designs, especially if works were submitted online
internet historian has some examples on how well all that "let people choose" usually goes
Yes. The Chinese refused to call their military ship "a mantis shrimp" (people voted for this). 🦐
@@Timsturbs in the video the official explanation says it was chosen out of a shortlist of five, makes you wonder how that design got into that shortlist in the first place, probably because the dude was actually a professional and no one decided it was worth it to stop him, it was for an internet poll too so I guess being silly wasn't too looked down upon
@tommerker8063 The EU has plenty of anti-democratic or dictatorial behaviour. The least they could have done is mint stickman coins.
As an American coin nerd, I envy this. What better way to respect your democratic ideals than to say, “well, Stickman won, now we’re stuck with it?” I guarantee if the US Mint did something similar and Dollary McDollarface won, they’d disqualify it and declare something traditional the winner.
I'm still pissed about a boat naming vote we had in Britain a few years ago, Boaty McBoatface won fair and square! But they named it like Queen Elizabeth II, the most boring and generic boat name ever. I hope the crew secretly calls it Boaty McBoatface
Now I want Dollary McDollarface
Tell that to Susan B. Anthony.
@@mhenderson7673 They named it after the greatest monarch in history. Good on them!
@@mhenderson7673 Do you guys name everything based on your monarchs/overlords? Genuine Question. Like is there a story behind it?
In Australia we're still debating what to put on our $5 note... THERE'S STILL TIME FOR THE STICKMAN!!!! 🤣
When are you changing from the Australian Dollar to the Australian Dollarydoo?
@@twiggledy5547 we're going to switch to Chuck Bucks
Sassy the Sasquatch, surely?
You should put the Tasmanian Tiger on your Dollar note to remind people of their stupidity for them not to repeat earlier mistakes.
Good sir is there a poll somewhere to be influenced?
As an Austrian I've had a couple of those come across my wallet and always thought they commemorated some cave art somewhere in Europe. Kept the first one for my small collection, but never thought too much about it. Never had the feeling they were rare, either, since the come along every once in a while. Never knew this funny backstory of the vote and what's clearly a joke entry. That's pretty cool.
As an American that’s what I thought when I visited Germany and came across one of these coins as well- Thought it was supposed to be a tribute to European prehistoric cave art
I’m pleased to see the official explanation proved that to be somewhat correct
I recall showing this coin to my teacher and friends in Vienna and some where convinced it must be fake money. I did not know what to think but is to this day the most memorable coin design i have ever seen.
@@schnittmagier5515by the time I first encountered this one, I already knew about memorable coins.
But I did wonder if the first memorative 2 Euro coin I got was a fake. It was a "traditional" design; I don't remember which one. But it said Germany and didn't have the normal German design on it, so at first I did a double take. Then, when I got home I googled it.
“Central Bank of Greece” and “financial environment” are two things that should NEVER be near each other in a sentence/paragraph
unless it is "Central Bank of Greece is a horrible financial enviroment"
@@SilverGamingFI fair point.
As someone who lived with the Euro most of his life, I didn't realize so many coins had the problem of NOT SAYING WHAT THEY ARE
Then you are lucky enough to have lived with your countries real currency before the Borg of the EU made everything the same.
@@TFAric reading comprehension and thinking in general isn't your area of expertise I see.
Never said it was, he could also have moved to an EU country. Allot of people my age and older have seen the currency that was before, the German mark. The Euro might have different pictures on the coins, that is great, it is still the same money.
@@TFAric OP said that a lot of coins don't have their value on them.
Euro coins do have their value on them.
He is not criticizing the euro coins.
He is not talking about the coins looking similar.
@@SimpleAmadeus @Amadeus Yeah? He said for most of his life, that means there were a time when he didn't have the Euro, I called that lucky, to be able to have seen a time when countries have unique money.
I was not commentimg on what the coins says.
Being really into 2€ collecting when I was around 12, I actually own one of the stickmen from Luxemburg. If I recall correctly, those were not put out into circulation back in the day because of the grate design, as it could be destroyed rather easily. Those grates are indeed a hologram that shows the Grand Duke of Luxemburg. I recall reading about a law, where Luxemburg‘s head of state had to be depicted on each Euro-coin, which is why they went with this technique
oh, that blood thirsty narcissistic arse? seems pretty fitting for him. 🙄
Honestly its even funnier thinking about a holographic coin which contains both the image of the Grand Duke of Luxemburg and a stickman joke. How is this not more well known.
Those coins were put into circulation. My friends Grandma found one of the Luxembourg EMU stickman coins in circulation, but yeah they are not that nice anymore after they were in circulation.
They were/are in circulation allright. I have one of those somewhere, cool idea, but kinda wierd after some time.
Luxembourg [richest nation(?)]. Lived there once for 30 years. You'll probably step on a few of those grated coins after alighting from the train. The streets are paved with 'em.
Weird video title. How did it 'corrupt' the currency?
Broken english
just clickbait at its finest
It didn't, it's a shitty clickbait but it's on a good video so it's illegal to get mad at it
Telling a story about a corrupt education system.
Hard to accept.
Watch it
You can fool a vending machine with a 10 Thai Baht coin, i did it a decade ago in France.
The guilt is heavier than the money save.
As a Greek person, I must say I am so proud to be from the same country as this coin design's inventor.
If I were you, I would hide and never tell anyone that you like this coin. It's an embarrassment.
@@petermontoya1796 Why should we be ashamed of our superior shitposting abilities?
@@petermontoya1796 wdym, its one of the best coins to ever exist
@@ajamsandwich7701 A stick man ?? That's a 3 year old design, not a man's design.
@@crazeelazee7524 I don't use Euro's. I live in California. We use weed as our currency.
Fun Fact: You can actually feel wich coin you got because every Euro Coin has diferent ridges on the side so blind and Visualy impared people can pay easier
That's cool
Probably easier than looking at them, I can barely tell one from another they're all too similar in size.
i use this all the time when looking for money, 10, 20 and 50 cent are very easy to tell which they are just by touching them
I thought pretty much all currencies have this
The bank notes have a similar feature, with different ridge patterns on the right edge of the front side. They're also good for easily checking for counterfeit money.
The coins are arranged by dimensions but in groups, depending on the material. No need to make all of them ordered by dimension, because you can instantly recognize that a 10 cent is more than a 5 cents cause copper looks cheap and the "gold" looks fancier. The 1 and 2 euro are also easy to identify and they weight more than the golden coins.
I guess this prevent the smaller coins from being extremely small and yet keep a certain ratio between dimensions and value
I think the weight is also how coins slots recognize what coins you put in.
Same with the UK coins, copper 1&2p are scaled so 2p weighs double, same with 5, 10 (round, silvery), 20, 50 (has corners, silvery) and £1, £2 (gold-ish)
So you could tell how much a bag of shape/material sorted coins is worth by weight
If I were going to make a commemorative coin design, I would make a design that looked like the coin itself, infinitely repeating until it was too small to see.
i guess the only visible thing would be a repetition of the border in a concentric fashion. nice idea... but you need to find a very interesting border!
'Its just a Lions Arse' that one had me in stiches, never noticed it before.
Someone needs to start a campaign to nickname the 20 pence the "lion's arse"
I want to use this currency now so I can say, "That'll be 3 lion's arses mate."
@@wanderinghistorian next time I give someone a 20p coin I'm gonna give them 3 lions arses instead.
That's when we really did reach the bottom in coin design.
Heads or lions arses?
"What the hell is a dime?!?"
as an American I laughed at this more than I care to admit
reminds me of a childhood class. lol
wait til he sees that Canadian and US coins are all the same sizes and interchangeable. Well in Canada anyway, you can give and receive US coins in your change and no one really worries about it. It's like a plague if you try giving a Canadian quarter to someone in the US.
@@brianbarker2551 I don't mind receiving some Canadian Coins in a purchase, but I do collect them. However, the main reason why not everyone accepts them in the U.S., is that the exchange rate is different, and local banks will no longer trade them in. One has to bring them to an International money exchange.
@@brianbarker2551 It would make sense for Canadian and US coins to be the same sizes because they used to be based on the silver standard, which was based on weight of silver. So an American dime and a Canadian dime would be the same 1/10 ounce of silver back in the day.
@@brianbarker2551 You can sometimes use Canadian quarters in the US. Sometimes. I tend to hoard them if I get them though.
The stickman was always my favorite and I still smile when I get one randomly.
In america we got ummm a Tree once or something..'Merca
The word "corrupted" isnt being named even once in this video… clickbait?
Yes
Speaking of currency recognition based on how a coin looks if you don't look too long at it, I got a bunch of Egyptian coins that looked almost exactly the same as old UK £2 coins about 10 years ago.
Many a cheap bus fare was gotten.
Also Swaziland had coins nearly identical in size and weight to the old £1 coins. Lots of cheap stuff from the school vending machine with those things.
Nice
Did the same with 5 Lira pieces from Turkey, they look almost exactly like 2 Euro pieces, but for about 50 cents back then. Good times.
Good God, these bots are everywhere
10 Thai Baht is almost exactly the same as 2 euro, worth significantly less. I believe some vending machines needed adjustment for that.
@@drunkonsuccess779 jjojoj
The stickman with the euro looks like an ancient sigil. I think it looks ridiculously cool, not like a joke at all.
Like an ancient relic. I love it.
I do believe the design incorporates occult astrological sigils.
That’s probably what archeologists 100,000 years from now will think when they discover this coin.
I seriously thought that's what it was going to be. "Here's a cave painting in Malta that someone added a poorly drawn Euro symbol to and called it a day."
Yep, that's why I voted for this design back in the day
@@FarfettilLejl Based
On my trip to Greece I got one of these as change in a cafe and I couldn't bring myself to spend it, even after my trip when I transferred all of my euros back to pounds I still kept this guy and I still have him to this day.
Good on ya, I'm the same way. Worst feeling is if you need to buy something but you only have the cool/unique coins in your wallet.
This had to have been one of the darkest & most frightening videos you've ever thrown at me, love your work keep it up!
i owned this coin already a few times and always wondered how the stickman got on the back. thanks for the video
@Thank me later 🅥 you slam your head into tables and yell dur da dur.
Good on the EU on respecting the vote, more often than not if funny submissions win in things like this it gets overturned
also I always thought this was drawn by a kid and was part of some charity thing, wild that it was just some troll artist xD
Its unfortunate we never voted for the Euro itself
Boaty McBoatface would have been welcomed into any port on Earth with a smile and a tear.
@@websciencenl7994 bro is anti euro 💀💀
bro your country voted for eu membership euro was included with it 💀💀💀
@@adrian-121 UK never adopted the euro while it was part of the eu
I am from Italy and I am currently living in the UK.
At the beginning I was confused by the coin dimensions as well, but then I was told this easy rule to remember:
> the one with least value are copper circles and they grow with dimension: 1p is smaller than 2p
> then you have the middle value which are silver circles: 5p is smaller than 10p
> then you have the higher value which are hexagonal: 20p is smaller than 50p
> finally you have the double colored ones: £1 is smaller than £2
Hope this helps :)
what we have in australia is similar but weird, we have silver coins, 5c 10c 20c 50c which all go up in size. then the gold dollar coins $1 and $2, of which $1 is smaller than 50c, and $2 is even smaller than that
It's mind blowing how photo realistic your animations have become.
I could swear that's real footage of a guy holding a coin. Wow! Great job my man!
I remember once getting the stickman coin as a child, I was so scared. I thought I had recieved a fake coin and I was scared I was going to get in trouble possesing this coin. I remmeber going to the store all scared and all. Buying something and handing the cashier the coin faced down so that she wouldn't see the fake desing on the bottom. Years later i realised this was an actual coin and it was a pretty funny story
It's much worse to try and buy something with fake money than to just have it somewhere in your house. If you thought it was fake, your best bet was definitely not to spend it? 😂
Haha, that's a great story. Funny how its intuitively recognized as not genuine, even by a child.
@@nosten5276 I know right. I remember thinking someone destroyed the coin by drawing on it
@@jamesthomson13 dude when we are kids we think outside of the box :v
I had a similar experience in America when all of our paper bills were changed to have these weird stamps all over it. To me it looked like Funny Money and it didn't seem real. To this day I still don't understand why our money looks so bad.
I’ve never considered how our American change would be confusing to someone who hasn’t grown up with them. It really would make too much sense to make them incremental in size wouldn’t it?
Edit: Or even merely include the value on the coin? Yes I get the historical context and how certain materials are more expensive than others, so size alteration wouldn’t be the most practical and that’s just me being nit-picky, but including the value would hardly be a trivial task.
even british money you can (sort of) split it into 4 bits (bronze coloured coins, silver circular coins, silver non-circle coins, bimetal ones) (1p 2p, 5p 10p, 20p 50p, £1 £2)
and our money sometimes may have a number on it but it definitely says fifty pence or one pound or two pence or whatever
You also need to take into account the varying value of copper vs silver vs gold. So a small silver coin (dimes back in the day) would be worth more than a larger copper coin (a penny).
It confuses me that they don't say the value
@@stupidvideos1449 yea its weird but a trick that I used as a kid to understand it was to just remember which presidents face corresponded to which value. I do think its a lil dumb that they dont tho.
My brother owned the stickman coin, and we liked it very much. Therefore, we kept it on the top of the box where he stored his coins, but one day, we looked for it and it had disappeared. My father had taken it without us knowing.
U should Stick it to the man.
I’m from Germany and I always notice the stickman coin! Funnily enough I never really thought twice about the design choice, I just noticed them like “Oh, it’s the one with the stickman on it.”
Same, I definitely have had one of these but never thought too much about it
The first time i got one of these I thought I was scammed lmao. I have a few of these and I absolutely love the design and story behind it. I'm glad you covered it!
Always learning something new and useful here. You the man Qxir.👍🏽
A few years ago, the Canadian mint issued a set of 25 cent coins with primitive drawings on the reverse side, which looked like they'd been drawn by a kindergarten class. They were subject to a lot of ridicule and even dislike. They were withdrawn after a while and are now rarely seen.
I literally thought my infant sister somehow carved the symbol onto a euro the first time I noticed it lmao
So, your infant sister has access to sharp stuff? lmao
In regards to Luxembourg, the Luxemburg one has the weird "stripes" because in Luxemburg the currency that gets minted there always needs an imprint of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg on it. So the weird stripes are actually a picture of their leader. Same goes for any other commemorative coin from Luxemburg. Most of the time you can hardly see it but there will always be a small circle on it somewhere on the coin with the imprint on it.
So he was right! It was an optical illusion or whatever those are called!
I'm from Luxembourg and never knew that damn haha
@Teamgeist Exactly. Sounds a bit egocentric to me.
@@teamgeist3328 He is the grand duke of Luxembourg, it’s standard for the monarch of a country to always be featured on that country’s currency.
@@LordDim1 Nah, it's not. Even UK didn't have the (dead) witch on all of theirs. Yup, sounds like megalomania and some stone age law that needed to be killed ages ago...
Have seen these very often, but never knew the story behind them, thanks!
This is why you put it through a panel of judges before selecting 10 designs for people to vote on
"Coiny McCoinface doesn't exist, he can't hurt you"
Coiny McCoinface: 웃€
Considering what would unfold for Greece in 2009, and you picture the stickman as a Greek in unison with the Euro...the stickman was the calm before the storm. Also, the reason the dime is smaller than the other coins is because when the US Mint first produced coins in the 1790s, the US standard coin was the silver dollar, and additional coin denominations were made with a proportionate silver content to the dollar. This, in turn, established the size of each.
"Coiny McCoinface" lol
omg our supreme leader
What the hell is that symbol next to the Euro symbol? Is it Korean?
@@Calvin_Coolage its korean saying "ut" (u+s symbols added together, if the character for S is on the bottom it becomes T . yeah yeah easy I know haha) looking like a stickman: ㅇ ㅜ ㅅ anyway, here is stickman with a hat especially for you: 훗
@@Yasminh- Thank you. He has a very nice hat.
I unironically always thought it was a great design. Simple and cute yet it has a profound message that is easily understood.
And it's something the people clearly wanted. The US would never approve of something like this, even IF it were put to a vote and won by an overwhelming margin.
I thought they were a democracy :(
@@MetalBansheeXi know this is an old comment, but the USA is a "democratic" republic, emphasis on republic. we elect middlemen who vote "on our behalf" on anything that matters, and they put corporate interests first every time since bribery is explicitly legal and expected. This is how "we" are able to repeatedly "elect" military-industrial corporate puppets that lose the popular vote and get the office anyways. If we were actually a democracy, neither George Bush Jr or that other guy more recently would have been elected but here we are 🤡 In american politics there are "two sides," but people keep forgetting that whether they wear red or blue they are all the same vile pieces of shit putting their boot on humanity's collective throat for personal gain regardless.
@@supraguy4694I doubt this. The US is so strict with this because their population is much more conservative than Europe, and the government reflects that, as demonstrated by the EU. If somehow the Karen plague got eradicated in the US, then inevitably attitudes of people in government will also reflect that. In the current US society, if this was proposed, most voting people (who are older and usually more serious about things) would probably spout on about how ridiculous and unbecoming it is. Clearly, this is not the case with the Europe.
TL;DR, it is not a problem of the inherent characteristics of the US government, it’s just a difference in culture., which reflects directly on the government.
Euro caused the Greece debt crisis in 2008. Maybe that was why…
Amazing, never knew this!
No likes OR comments? Im early
Chris?!
Thanks for the explanation !
I actually wondered the first time I got one of thoses (I am a european citizen), but as we're used to commemorative designs in our coins I assumed it was legit after a moment of doubt ...
Despite being uncommon you can find them once in a while, and I share the fun you experience about it ^^
The only thing I regret is we don't have much communication between union instances and citizens of any of its constitutive state, so most of us didn't actually know there was a competition or a vote (except coin enthusiasts I guess ;)).
We don't have euros in my country, so the only times I got to see one was in those chocolate coins you could buy at airports in EU. The way I ate them was to make the first bite with the foil on because that's what funny people in movies did when they found gold.
When I got old enough for allowance I got a few coins to spend on stuff I wanted during a vacation, and since I was a very special child I thought they handed me candy, so naturally I bit down hard on it thinking it would squeeze chocolate out of it.
It did not.
looks like you're still a very special child. a toothless one, but still a very special one.
bless yuo and yuor parents for the laugh. 😘
i think you just didn't bite hard enough to release the chocolate treasure. you should try again, take a monster bite!
A very special child, indeed! 😉
me, as a lithuanian, am really happy that he put "Lithuania" on the screen for 2 seconds or something, tbh anything's better than nothing
Bring back the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 👏
I just realized my almost-full collection of euro coins needs an update. Lithuania had no euro at the time I stopped traveling…
I was of course aware of the different designs, and the stick figure one was actually my favorite when I was young. But this video did motivate me to look at the coins in my wallet. Out of three 2 euro coins, one had the stickman. Nice.
A few years ago I noticed that the euros had different designs on them and I started collecting various unique ones, that includes 2 of the stickmen shown, one from Greece and one from Cyprus (btw I'm Greek and I lived in Cyprus for three years). One coin that is quite common despite it being limited edition is the 2004 Olympics one, I see it all the time in the wild
I remember Ron Weasley being confused about the shape of muggle money, and I wondered what absurd shape the wizards coins must have. Then I visited Scotland and was shocked to see hexagonal coins.
lol, it's to make them easier to tell apart. I never considered that it would seem weird to other countries!
Hexagons tessellate. Circles don’t.
I was about to say, that's normal for us lol
The point of hexagonal coins is to help blind people know the difference between them and similar-sized coins.
@@darthkek1953 I've always thought it stops them from rolling away, but that's great too I guess
The stickman, while funny, is at the same time genius.
You can get a laugh out of it, while me myself see the deep historical history which a simple stickman holding the euro ment.
I did recognize this meaning quite quick because right next to my house there are what is called "Helleristninger", or thousand years old carvings in the boulders identical to that stick figure.
It makes sense though
Yeah honestly having a nice little joke on a coin seems kinda fun. American coinage is all pretty boring, even the commemorative pieces are just the same sort of style. Its not bad but I really wish people played around with money designs a bit more, finding a stickman euro after a long day seems like it would be such a nice bit of joy. The caveman history is a bit iffy, I can see the point but I'd think of it as joke first, vague historical reference second. Maybe a reference to ancient Greek coinage would be neat.
@@StuffandThings_ The crudely drawn circles around the stickman resemble the rough edges of an ancient coin, so your reference is already there!
@@StuffandThings_ Now that you say that, it would be cool to see antique coin designs reinvented on new coins. Seeing the various nations in Europe's old symbology now used across the Euro as a symbol of the union would be cool. I want to have a 21st century ducat. Or now that it's been a couple decades, seeing a Euroified franc or deutschmark would be awesome.
Nice Video.
I always thought it was a design by some kid (similar to some of those contests that they sometimes do for post stamps where they put designs from kids on them)
I've had several of these. Never thought twice about it. Cool background story.
It's kind of like when mountain dew had that poll for a new name, but the EU had the balls to accept that they lost and made that meme coin
To be fair, an innocent stick man would cause a lot less negative PR than “Evil Moustache Man Did Nothing Wrong” or “Gushin’ Granny”
@@punjabiplug2823 don't forget "fapple"
@@punjabiplug2823 The EU was also smart enough to set terms for what could be allowed as a design.
I've seen compilation videos that talk about all of the not-so-serious winners of these online votes, but this Euro 2 is actually the best yet.
Good on the EU for actually going through with it, the mad lads.
A great example of EU democracy
If ive learned anything , give the general public a chance to be stupid silly with something meant to be serious, were gonna take the silly option far more than not
And that brings me joy ♡
I didn't even know these existed, and after the video I checked my 2 € coins (I have quite a lot of them, long story) and actually found one of them. Thank you for making me aware.
When they first redesigned the $100.00 bill, here in the states, many shops/retailers/businesses, rejected them because they looked so fake. Same with the $10.00 and the $20.00.
They redesigned the euro bills a few years ago too and it honestly looked so fake at first. When I first saw a 20€ bill with a fucking window in it, I was like "u sure this is real money?", I mean, come on, a window?
@@tezzanoia that was only foreshadowing, now they're throwing them out the windows like there's no Winter coming... 😬
My own grandfather accused my mother (his *daughter*) of giving him a counterfeit $100 bill for Christmas. For CHRISTMAS! That, among other offenses, made that trip to my grandparents the last one for many years. He's not a bad man, but he is a total jack@$$, if that makes sense.
I call the "new bills" Monopoly Money.
I worked at a gas station when that happened and we knew what the new bills would look like because the boss had us go the the federal reserve website to read the methods of spotting counterfeit bills. There was a whole article on the new $100 and what to look for.
I also know a way to trick the counterfeit detection pens for American currency, which is why we didn't use them. There are several other ways to check that are more reliable.
I never realised that the English coins made up the royal crest. . . and I find it so ironic that it was an Irish man, and a user of the Euro who pointed it out! 😄Thanks for that! The double irony is that hardly anyone seems to use coins anymore. . .
To my knowledge the ability to design the back side country-specific was made for the UK, so they could have the Queen head on them. Then at the last moment they backed away anyways. But it turned out a great idea, so no harm done
We use a lot of cash money in Germany.
@@TheStiepen Not solely - to my knowledge Luxemburg also has a law that only the Grand Duke's head is allowed to be on the back of coins. Therefore maybe that one is really a hologram thing and from the right angle you see Henri to fulfil the law. I think due to the duration of his reign in relation to the introduction of the Euro and no other pictures on their coins, I think Grand Duke Henri is, despite Luxemburg's small size, the most minted Euro back picture.
@@MirkoC407 interesting, I did not know that!
@@MirkoC407 Germans use a lot of coins and are the biggest country by population and most coins in Germany aren't special.
I don't think Luxembourg has more of the same embossing.
Nice GradeAUnderA sound when you display the stickman coin.
It’s one of those things that’s not really significant, nor does it have much meaning, but its sole existence just makes you happy and puts a smile on your face.
In 2016, in Australia, they released special $2 coins when the Olympics in Rio were on. There were six different ones. Each one had a coloured ring in the middle for each colour of the Olympic flag. The last one had all six colours in a swirl. It was cool seeing colours on a coin that is just usually gold.
We had international students living with us at the time, so every time I got a new colour I would give it to one of them to have as a memento. Idk if they spent them or what, but it was fun collecting the colours for/with them.
I'm Australian and I've never seen the 6 colour one
Not as fun.
@@change_your_oil_regularly4287 it was the 6th coin in the series, but the 5 colours of the Olympics
I loved those coins, but never got to see the full colour version. My favourite ever Aus currency though, is the original polymer note. It’s a $10 note with an aboriginal design. Fun fact, Australia actually invented the polymer note, and due to how successful it was at reducing counterfeiting, and being much more durable, many other countries licensed our design. So anyone with polymer notes can thank The Reserve Bank Of Australia
And for 2020 those coins had furries on them and were sold at woolies
Kinda reminds me of the US $2 Bill. Most people don’t even know they exist, and I’ve heard stories of cashiers refusing to accept them because they think they’re fake.
@LabRat Knatz Right on. As a cashier back in the day, me and the rest of the team used to get rid of all the odd coins or bills before the end of the day, simply because the cash sheets (little balance sheets) we had to fill out at the end of the day did not have space for $2 bills, 50 cent pieces, or dollar coins. Therefore we would have to squeeze in these amounts when there was no space on the sheet, and if we put arrows or whatnot then the person balancing the drawers the next morning would often miss it. 50-cent pieces and dollar coins went back to customers very easily, but the $2 bills often brought a blank, vacant stare - and more than one accusation that I was joking or trying to steal their change by giving back fake bills.
Scottish people have this problem sometimes when we try to buy things in England with Scottish bank notes. They are perfectly legal tender, but tend to be a bit more colourful and pretty than the English bank notes and it is not unheard of for people to get the kicked out of shops or even have the police called on them because the English people think they're fake XD
@@mrmustard-mp6ij Happens now with dollar coins.
@@mhenderson7673 no, the scottish bank notes are not a legal tender.
Neither in scotland nor england. The only legal tender in scotland is the 1 and 2 pound coin (smaller coins are legal tender up to a certain amount).
Read the text on the bank notes: Their are "promises to pay" from a bank.
For every batch of scottish bank notes, there is one very funny extra large "bank note" signed in and by the Bank of England nominally worth the amount printed in the batch.
Yes, the bank of england has the same funny "promise to pay on it", despite beeing a legal tender in england - but it is not a legal tender in scotland, so it is just a "promise to pay" from the bank of england while in scotland.
One moment that haunts me to this day was when my mom sold the old coffee maker online with somebody coming over paying in cash. The person gave a $2 bill and I, the bright 6th grader I was, legitimately thought it was fake. I couldn't bring myself to say that they were lying so I made a whole bunch of guttural noises before running to find my mom and ask what I should do. I now hang on to all my 2's. They aren't rare yet I just can't bring myself to give them up.
The existence of this coin and this channel brings me great joy
I never knew this was put to a vote. It seems perfectly in line with other EU promotional material I've seen. They desperately want to come across as uncomplicated and relatable.
I figured this had to be a kind of "Boaty McBoatface" situation.
At least this time they honored the voter's wishes.
Coiny McCoinface, or Coiny McCointails.
Honestly, I'm so used to weird and exotic 2€ designs that I just don't question the back side at all any more.
I remember both having had and seeing them as a child up to recently; Such a fun coin, cool to know the backstory of now too!
TIL: that all countries made the stickman, I ONLY got the one from Malta.
The mixed up coin sizes is due to them being made of silver in the past. The half disme (half dime i.e. 5 cents) was the smallest silver coin in the US (aside from the itty bitty trime 3 cents) and proportionately smaller than the dime. Then quarters, 50 cent pieces and silver dollars. All had a silver weight proportionate to their value. They made bronze/copper 1 cents from the start too, they were also much larger. They then came out with the penny of the size we know in the 1860s, then a larger nickel made of well nickel. Both were no longer proportionate to their metal value, so they made them more reasonable sizes. They kept making silver coinage up into the 1960s, and now that they don't i agree the sizes are rather strange.
Imagine if they continued using silver, but just made them smaller and smaller due to inflation. A dime would be like the size of a ladybug.
@@SalisburySnake if I did the math right, a dime would only be somewhere between 2 and 2.5mm across.
That's a bit like saying we allow the shooting of school children due to the ridiculous easiness to get hold of a gun because every citizen has the right to bear arms in 1777 which is probably your average president dating range lol. America thinks conservative ISM is a virtue so it always looks backwards the trouble is there's no f****** answers back but nothing's going to change revelation doesn't suddenly pop out of the past you have to do something new to fix a modern problem the founding fathers didn't have ar-15s just like the used silver coins the USA is going to fall for the same reason the Roman Empire Fell it kept looking backwards when it should have looked forward. that's why Britain is still one of the most wealthy Nations on the planet because we say we're looking backwards but we actually do a full rotation and constantly look forward because our past is all f****** horrific but at least we have healthcare and bullet free children always sometimes gluten free vegan bisexual genderfluid children as well we really are living in a modern Marvel lol you got to play the course you're not try and correct the course the USA's control freak behaviour is going to kill it even if it's simply that you don't have the Next Generation because they've all been unalived.
@@SalisburySnakeBóín Dé the Irish for ladybug is God's little cow cows are sacred in Celtic Society ladybugs are very honoured also cute little critters unlike I don't know spiders and s***. having a pocket full of ladybugs wouldn't be the worst thing in the world might be a bit like having a pocket full of Skittles though might get a bit squishy God's Little mush
@@MiIIiIIion I was assuming it would also be much thinner than the current time. But I didn't do any actual math.
i’m an american, and i can tell you our coins are frustrating. i can’t tell you how many times i’ve been cleaning my house or car and saw a nickel on the floor thinking it was a quarter, and then have that wave of disappointment wash over me thinking i found 20 more cents than i actually did lol.
In~cent~ive to pick it up...??
@@JTA1961 For that pun, you will get no quarter from me.
tee hee
@Ur Mom You cannedn't tell them what to do.
@Ur Mom They shall listen to Nickelback as punishment.
@Ur Mom They shall listen to Nickelback as punishment.
I honestly prefer that design for the coin than whatever is now...
lol dat stickman design was a great troll move, respect ! xD
As a Canadian, I was like, "So what's so strange about it?"
I remember they released this awful quarter of three stickmen holding hands in 1999, "Canada through a Child's Eye." Yeah it's symbolic or whatever, but it's ugly
...We get a lot of weird ones actually. I got a Bill Reid Loonie one and showed it to an American once and their reaction was like, "It looks cool and colourful but it's too impractical for real life." Like, they assumed it was something you had to buy and not something we randomly got from grocery change.
Yeah,canada looks like a real circus.
Have you ever found or made a Spock five?
@@buddyclem7328 I have not but it's great
At least you folks have the sense to use your Loonies and Toonies and to eliminate the cent.
I have some colored coins from Canada that made their way down here to the states and when I got them when I was younger, I thought they were so cool. I still think they're really cool and they're one of my favorite parts of my coin collection!
Reminds me of Internet Historian
"Hey guys, I got a great idea... LET'S DO A POLL!"
Moving around Europe without needing to change currency is just perfect
With British coins the idea is:
2p is twice the size of 1p
10p is twice the size of 5p, and they are "silver", so therefore higher value than "copper"
The old 50p before it was shrunk was about 2.5x the size of the 20p, and 7-sided makes it higher value than round. New 50p is still approx. twice the size
£2 is about twice the size of £1, and because it is "gold" that makes it higher value than silver
While you're right that 50 cent are bigger than 1€ and all that, I think it's still relatively intuitive to tell their worth by a combination of size and material. First is what we call "Kupfergeld" in Germany (copper money), so 1 cent, 2 cents and 5 cents, with 1 being the smallest and 5 the biggest. Then there's the bigger cent coins with 10, 20 and 50 cent, all of them being "gold" coloured, once again 10 being the smallest and 50 the biggest of them. And then there's the two coloured ones, which is 1€ and 2€. Sure, it's not as intuitive as just having an ascending size, but still works quite well I think
Something else I think is quite cool about the Euro is that the coins were made with the blind and visually impaired in mind and in cooperation with organisations of and for blind people. The increasing size in each "group of coins" combined with increasing thickness (the one digit cent ones are quite thin, the euro ones quite thick) and increasing weight, as well as grooves on the sides of most coins make it quite easy to distinguish them without any vision at all. Additionally, for those who can still see but not well enough to read what's on the coin, there's also the different colours. I think that's pretty damn cool
Oh, also, I'm pretty sure I've had quite a few of the stickman euros so far and just kinda always shrugged them off as "just another one oth the thousands of designs,, probably one of the special ones" lmao
02:12 - The reason U.S. Dimes are smaller than Cents, five cent 'Nickels', has to do with the materials used in previous decades. The Dime through Half Dollar have remained the same thickness and diameter since 1837. Those denominations were coined on planchets of .900 silver, .100 copper through 1964 as had been Half Dimes minted through 1873. The size of those coins was proportionate to their weight i.e.. one half dollar = two quarter dollars = five dimes (= 10 half dimes).
To ease transition from .900 coinage to the new 'clad' copper - nickel coins of 1965 onward, previous designs and sizes of dime through half dollar were maintained as were size and composition of one and five cent coins. Cents changed composition in 1982 but not size.
It makes more sense if you think of the dimes through halves as silver coins in one's pocket six decades ago.
'Cent' and 'Dime' were decimal divisions of the U.S. Dollar; one (gold) Eagle was ten dollars as specified in the Coinage Act of 1792. The Treasury Department had devised an innovative system that would superimpose metric divisions of the new Dollar with the half, quarter, and eighth divisions of the Spanish Dollar on which it was based and equally valued. The Eagle would also be halved and quartered, a half cent and half dime included for 'small change' as one Spanish Real would be twelve and one half cents (1/8 dollar).
Original denominations were:
Gold:
$10.00 - Eagle
$05.00 - Half Eagle
$02.50 - Quarter Eagle
Silver:
$1.00 - Dollar
$0.50 - Half Dollar
$0.25 - Quarter Dollar
$0.10 - Dime
$0.05 - Half Dime
Copper:
$.01 Cent
$.005 Half Cent
'Nickels' (.750 copper, .250 nickel) came about as an emergency measure during the U.S. 'Civil War' as had the bronze Cent and Two Cent coins that had been introduced in 1864. The original 'Nickel' was the Three Cent Nickel of 1865 - 73 followed in 1866 with the Five Cent Nickel as used today (but for design). Half Dimes would continue to be produced through 1873 as the Three Cent Silver (introduced 1851) would through 1872.
@@-oiiio-3993 it's not like I haven't heard this before, it's just not very intuitive to me. I see how it makes sense when you know about it, sure, but that's different from being able to tell just from looking at it without any further information given
@@tezzanoia Indeed.
At issue is that the general public of the U.S. has a tendency to be ridiculously averse to changes that would likely or definitely be of benefit to them.
Add to that the absurd political extremes of today and I'd say it is exceedingly unlikely that the U.S. coinage and / or currency systems will see any significant revisions for decades.
The Brits threw off LSD coinage in 1971, Canada eliminated the Cent, $1 and $2 notes and actually use their $1 coins as well as $2.
The U.S. wastes billions of dollars coining and distributing one cent coins, one dollar notes.
@@-oiiio-3993 yep, I definitely see what you mean :/
And man do I hope that we get rid of the 1 and 2 cent coins with the euro too, they just don't make sense. Or just remove the copper coins altogether honestly
@@tezzanoia That would be a quick and easy 'fix' for U.S. coinage. Eliminate one and five cent coins from circulation (mint only as items sold for profit to collectors), add two and five dollar coins, eliminate one dollar note entirely which would bring dollar coins into use. We presently pay to store billions of them.
Also change designs to include tactile identification and simple numeric denomination (10c, 25c, 50c, $1, $2, $5).
All of the above makes far too much sense to be seen any time soon.
I used to be a shift supervisor at a place I worked at a few months ago and we would get large rolls of change for our registers that would have change from all over the globe. My boss, being the awesome person he was, let me keep the other currencies since we couldn’t keep circulating it so I have a small collection of coins from Canada and the EU. What’s more are the ones I have that are from Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.
It’s really cool to see change travel so far across the borders of not only the ocean but also so deep inside of the US.
What's funny is that Roman coins are found all over the old world from the Indian ocean trade networks so that's not even a new phenomena. Its honestly amazing how little foreign currency makes its way into countries with such an interconnected global trade network. I imagine digital transfers help a TON with this. But still I really wonder how they managed like 70 years ago.
I also have a foreign coin collection from work and it's interesting to see the age of some of the coins as well. I once found a Scottish shilling from the 1940s in a roll of quarters and wonder when it made its way over to the US and how long it avoided getting taken out of circulation until it got to me.
Australia does the same thing, they have commemorative coins for almost all of the different coin values although the 1 dollar and 50 cent coins are the most common and our coins go up in size as the value does until you get to the dollars which are smaller but a different color.
i come across them in my work quite often. i love them. never seen the luxembourg one tho. i'll look out for it
Jaysus you've got me digging through my coin box
Awesome vid 🫶 I will look out for these now. Been enjoying the different country logos so far
oh god, i literally found a stickcoin the other day for the first time, i was opperating a cash register at the time and debated with the customer cause i thought it was fake >.>
Lmao
Did you win the argument
I got one of these from a vending machine on a trip to Germany recently, and I remembered this video. I was so excited
every 2 euro coin that get in my wallet here in spain is stickman
I think it's like the most minimalistic coin ever. By the way Mr. Georgios Stamatopoulos has designed coins for Greece since the 90's and the coins for Cyprus. Also his design was the 2015 common commemorative 2 euro coin and also some of his designed coins have won awards as the best coins in some categories in the world money fair. Oh and btw there are about 550ish different designs of 2 euro coins.
God bless you man, I was curious to know more
He even did the design for the 5 cent coin with the oil tanker?
I always wondered - why an oil tanker?
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@@Quast Because Greece has the largest oil tanker fleet in the EU, if not the world. Its a large part of their economy and it helps to supply Europe with energy.
5p coins in Britain used to be bigger (round and about the size of a 20p). I vaguely remember much mockery when the tiny ones came out, and "these new 5p's are too fiddly!" was a stock "pretending to be old" phrase among kids for years.
..yeah, even the 6d was legal as 2 1/2p if you could find one
Will definitely keep an eye out for the stick man as personally I never seen them in Malta.
Saw a couple of these over the years. never questioned them. First time I saw one I smiled.
i never thought of this as a joke, it looks cute and minimalistic, there are a lot more 2 euro comemorative coins that are more obscure than that
Also the actualy stick man and euro symbol are on what looks like a historical handmade coin.
Same! I've had this coin a few times too and never questioned it at all.
I guess your just rationalize it if you see one "surely it's trying to make some profound point about us evolving from primitive cave men or something like that"
That's what I thought at least. I still never liked it tho
I think one of the best features of the Euro is, that no matter how you look on a coin, you always now how much it is worth. And you can even feel it.
I had one of those in my random collection of all kinds of memories from vacations etc... until the then-best friend of my sister apperantly stole this damn coin and I only realized it, years later, when I moved out...
That stick man is proof the EU is the home of democracy. In the uk, the public were given a similar vote on naming a new lifeboat, but the authorities went against the People and refused to call the boat Boaty McBoatface. True story btw, lol.
Fun fact: Living in France, I by random means got in my hands the stickman coins, I knew the coin wasn’t really rare and worth any money but I still sold it to a professional who did not know about it for around 40 euros. Sort off a lucky day
A professional... You sure about this part XD
Professional what? Professional idiot?
that's an obvious lie but okay ;) Cool story bro.
"Professional"
@@lip4973 he was more into furnitures, pieces of arts etc
Hmm, a Qxir video that isn't Gaelic, Tales from the Bottle, or Last Moments?
Very interesting...
This is a prime example of how a pure democracy is not always the best way to run things.
I got one of these in a store a few years ago. I looked it up and found out about the commemorative coins, and even started collecting them for fun. I think by now I have ~200 of those coins and at least 30 stickman coins.
Fun note: every EU member state can mint two commemorative coins each year, one of which is "forced to be" an identical coin throughout the EU, but the second is a national commemorative coin
in Germany we have our 16 federal states on the back and famous people
I have the "federal states series" completed (17 pieces as in 2019 they made the "Bundesrat") and I must say it is the most beautiful one that has met my eyes.
And Germany also has 5 entities that issue coins - the 5 ateliers that issue them are marked on the coins by the small letters A, D, F, G, J. And as some of these don't issue as many coins as others, some coins are indeed rarer and are worth more money than its printed value.
I use cash when i do most shopping irl and very often i do get these commemorative coins.. which im surprised when i looked their collection-values on internet.. some of these are worth 20 to 40 euros - each - and i have like 20+ of them already.. im like... do people even check what they use to buy groceries? imagine buying 2 euros worth of soda and paying it with 40 euros... daaaamn. Most of them are from country im from but surprising amounts of foreign coins as well (mostly from baltic and germany). But im happy to find these every once in a while ^^
Is Adolf on one... because he has to be the most famous German... lol
@@stevecollins2808 he was Austrian...
Do a video on the infamous €2.50 Waterloo coin! The French government exercised a veto on a 200 year anniversary €2 coin (because France were defeated at Waterloo they didn't think it a cause for celebration), so Belgium simply struck a new denomination of coin to sidestep the veto. Interestingly, Belgium also did a €2.50 for the 75 year anniversary of VE day, but I cannot imagine Germany and Austria would have objected to such a coin... France minted Charles de Gaul €2 coins for 75 year VE anniversary.
I have a €10 coin from Aquitaine in France got in change in the Post Office in a place called Belves, have never spent it. Lots of countries have commemorative coins that are not issued, this €10 was circulated!
@@peterperigoe9231 That's my coin-collecting father-in-law's birthday present sorted, thank you!
Imagine being this butthurt over a battle you lost over 200 years ago.
@@vesrchrieben7427 Well, they ARE French...
Don't panic - given the opportunity, I'll proposed a commemorative coin "Getting to know your neighbours 1939-1945" lol
The sizes of the coins in the U.S. and other countries are based on the value of their metal content. Originally, pennies/cents were copper and nickels were nickel...then dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars were all silver. Dimes up through dollars ARE appropriately scaled up in size the higher the denomination because they contain gradually more silver. Now all coins are debased due to inflation and contain things like zinc, aluminum or copper but their sizes remain the same as before to keep the illusion they are of the same value as when they contained higher value metals.