Euro banknotes used fictional bridges, and one Dutch town built them anyway
laroyo · x · 2026-07-28
A repost highlights a funny historical detail about euro banknotes.
- The bridges on euro notes were deliberately fictional so no member state would feel favored.
- A Dutch town then decided to build all of the bridges anyway, turning the anti-conflict design into an accidental scavenger hunt.
- The poster calls the story brilliant and hilarious, and the thread is about the absurdity of the outcome rather than policy or finance.
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