As of today, the same coins and banknotes can be used to buy a cup of coffee and the morning paper in Amsterdam, Lisbon, Helsinki, Naples, Dublin and Dresden.
The observed differences between the various currencies were unexpected and were not based on different climate conditions or hygiene levels, since all experiments were performed at the same conditions, using previously sterilized banknotes.
At around the same time, Shepherd-Barron, workedrked for banknote manufacturer De La Rue, was developing a rival cash-dispensing device.
The four denominations in this series are not the same by dimensions as the $25 billion note used different paper from the 500 ZWD banknote of 2001.
Britain's own array of satellite havens – the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Jersey, all of which sport the Queen on their banknotes – are part of the same problem.
The $5, $10 and $20 banknotes were also revised with the new designs in 1997, whilst the $2 banknote was and replaced by a coin in the same year with the $5 denomination undergoing the same process in August 2001.
The European Central Bank has decided to withdraw the €500 banknote from circulation by the end of 2018, and Sweden has done the same thing as a gradual exercise almost without anyone noticing.
"It has the same features as a cash payment – real-time clearing, the same as handing over a banknote.
— I returned to London on the same train as the bookies Ronnie hadn't paid, lugging a briefcase stuffed with banknotes from bets I'd placed for him around the course.
In the same way, E. coli was spread onto one side of a Euro and a Romanian Leu (RON) banknote.
