Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Euros

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and special guests Jeremy Bent and Dimitry Pompée explore why the euro currency is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

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LINKS FOR DIMITRY AND JEREMY:

• ‘Eurovangelists’ podcast (Maximum Fun)
• Jeremy Bent’s website
• Dimitry Pompée’s IMDb page
• Tink Media interview with Jeremy and Dimitry

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

• Katie Goldin on TikTok
• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Euro Banknote Design Exhibition (European Central Bank)
• Economy and Finance: The euro: Types of euro coins (European Commission)
• The euro banknotes and the partially sighted (European Central Bank)
• The euro banknotes and coins (European Central Bank)
• Banknote production and stocks (European Central Bank)
• Euro banknotes (Bank Of Spain)
• Europe to Remove 500-Euro Bill, the ‘Bin Laden’ Bank Note Criminals Love (The New York Times)
• Cash out: Eurozone banks stop issuing €500 note in fight against crime (EuroNews.com)
• American money (USA.gov)
• $10,000 Bill (Museum of American Finance)
• Italy makes massive seizure of counterfeit euro banknotes (Reuters)
• Counterfeit euros: Fake it ’til you make it (Al Jazeera)
• Italy seizes 556,000 euros in fake coins minted in China (Reuters)
• National side designs of 1 euro and 2 euro coins (European Central Bank)
• eBay listing for “Estonia 2022 2 euro coin Ukraine and freedom – Slava Ukraini No War UNC”
• Tracing Ukrainian Identity in the National Numismatic Collection (Smithsonian Global)
• Spijkenisser Eurobruggen (Euro Banknote Bridges) — Spijkenisse, Netherlands (Atlas Obscura)
• Euro banknote artist fears redesign could revive rivalries (Phys.org)
• How the Euro Works: Bank-note designs (HowStuffWorks)
• Fact Follows Fiction: Real Bridges Based on Euro Banknote Artwork (article for the 99% Invisible website by Kurt Kohlstedt)
• Euro banknotes set to get a facelift, ECB says (Reuters)
• The Divisive Euro (JStor Daily)
• Brexit What? On the Foundations of the European Union (JStor Daily)
• The Euro: How a Common Currency Helped Europe Achieve Peace (History.com)
• Jacques Delors, Passionate Architect of European Unity, Dies at 98 (The New York Times)
• Bulgaria can’t join the eurozone in January. Here’s why. (Politico)
• Margaret Thatcher said plan for the euro was ‘a rush of blood’, archives reveal (The Guardian)
• Scottish independence: SNP says Scotland should have own currency (BBC News)
• Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 : The Roots of the #indyref (JStor Daily)
• Greek bailout crisis in 300 words (BBC News)
• Greece makes first return to debt market in three years (BBC News)
• Why Would Anybody Adopt the Euro in 2015? (The Atlantic) — this is one example of experts claiming the Lithuanian adoption of the euro could kill it off.
• One Million Cent Pyramid — The Bank of Lithuania Money Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania (Atlas Obscura)
• Guinness records: Bank of Lithuania Money Museum’s one million centas pyramid — largest in the world (Bank Of Lithuania Money Museum)
• Op-Ed: Insieme 1992: Eurovision After the End of History (ESC In Context)