Re: Two Birds, One Stone
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:43:02 +1000
> I think you may be thinking of The Little Prince. (Note to
> Francophiles: France's 50-franc note is a veritable riot of
> Little Prince details. It's a tribute to Antoine de
> Saint-Exupery, and has pictures from the book printed,
> laminated, and watermarked into the paper. It's a work of
> art in itself; even the fine lines, when looked at under a
> magnifying glass, prove themselves to be text from the
> book.)
>
> It makes you wonder why we still have the same old faces on
> the same old money....
>
> --tim
>
Over here we have plastic money with little holograms and see-through bits
and it is very nice although it feels a bit like Monopoly money until you
get used to it (and you can tell the difference between a 10 and a 100
which I found near impossible in America). We used to have a banknote with
Henry Lawson (kind of the Australian Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) on them
but alas they left with the old paper currency.