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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vyck, post: 1464045, member: 38598&quot;]In the picture below you can see the first European plastic bills:</p><p>[ATTACH]183260.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>It was issued in Romania whit the occasions of the solar eclipse of 1999.</p><p>Has a value of 2000, was issued for one year and eventually withdrawn from circulation after a monetary reform.</p><p>Has several interesting carecteristic as:</p><p>- a transparent window</p><p>- a pink semi-transparent window, which if superimposed to the sun from the opposite side makes that sun seen through this window to appear as made of two colors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Front: </p><p>Romanian coat of arms. A simplified solar system and depiction of the solar eclipse. </p><p>Back:</p><p>Romanian flag within map outline of Romania. On the map, the area and the cities are marked, where the eclipse was the most visible. </p><p>This 2000 Lei bill is the first polymer-based note in Europe and in the northern hemisphere.</p><p><br /></p><p>------</p><p>More information from the Internet:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_thousand_lei" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_thousand_lei" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_thousand_lei</a></p><p><a href="http://www.banknotes.com/ro111.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.banknotes.com/ro111.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.banknotes.com/ro111.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101016194809AAH4nLE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101016194809AAH4nLE" rel="nofollow">http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101016194809AAH4nLE</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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