How to tell where your euro note is from

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🗓️ 29 June 2015

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Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce work out where a wallet full of euro notes originated and hunt down some elusive Greek ones

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

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0:00.0	On this is money, you've resurrected an article you wrote back in 2012, based, I believe,
0:04.4	on an article that you wrote in 2010. Now, tell us a little bit more about this, if you would, Simon.
0:09.7	So this is how you find out where a euro note is from. Now, this is a trick that's not known to many people,
0:15.0	but whilst the architects of the great European project would have you believe that all euros
0:20.4	are created equal
0:21.4	and are equal. Actually, there's a little letter on the note that tells you it's country of origin.
0:26.8	We mentioned this last week, actually, but I'd written something in 2012 about how you find out
0:32.0	where are euro is from, talking about how it looked like Greece might finally about to be
0:35.2	bundled out of the Eurozone. And actually, that was talking about something I'd originally written in 2010
0:40.2	when this whole thing first kicked off.
0:42.4	But readers love it.
0:43.3	So I reflected on the fact that this was an illustration
0:46.4	of the complete failure of the Eurozone to deal with the problem
0:49.2	because five years down the line it was still going on.
0:52.2	But also explained how you can work out where your Euros are from. So we have got euros in the studio for a real live euro test. We've got euros are plenty, not because of me, but I'm just in front of you, Simon, it's a wad of euros. Now, what's funny is neither of these euros or notes belong to either of us. We both borrow them. Some of these are mine, but some of them are Mark Schofman's, who I relieved of his euros yesterday afternoon. You relieved a lot of euros off Mark Schofman there. He's nervously waiting by his desk back at this is money, hoping you're going to return them. So let's find out then. How do we find out where they're from? This is so exciting. Lee, you've got the list. Yeah, I've got the list in front of me.
1:28.0	Georgie, do you want to go first?
1:29.0	All right.
1:29.3	But I've only got one.
1:30.3	That's not fair.
1:30.9	So there's a letter at the front of the serial number,
1:33.1	and that tells you what country it's from. What do we not? We want Germany? No, you want Greece. No, you want Greece.
1:37.9	You want a hoarder.
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