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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3546179, member: 39"]As for the sizes, guess it depends on what one is used to. US dollar bills I have always found "difficult" because of the same size issue. But then pretty much every other country I have been to apart from my "domestic" euro area, has different sizes. Not sure how blind and vision impaired people deal with USD "paper", but these days there are even pretty reliable apps that will recognize a denomination and read it aloud ... As for those letters, in the second series (Europa notes) they strictly refer to the printing works where the notes are made. There are indeed a few similarities however, primarily with regard to those central banks that have "in-house" banknote production. In the first series, the "U" preceding the serial number referred to France, which meant that the Banque de France commissioned the production. Now the U refers to the Banque de France printing works. But there is another French printer, Oberthur, which uses the "E". If you look at Germany for example, the X in the first series meant that Deutsche Bundesbank commissioned the production. Now the X means Giesecke & Devrient, Munich (one of two printers and three printing works in Germany), except that G&D recently stopped making notes in Munich. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Christian[/QUOTE]