I'm leaving for Italy this next Friday (March 31, 2006). It's been a crazy couple of weeks since I found out that I'm going. We (Geckowerx, LLC) are doing a project with a company that is launching an urban lifestyle magazine in 46 cities, internationally. I'm spending the next month at their headquarters to get everything started. Looks like I'll be living the expatriate life for the next couple years. Viva! Italia.
I scanned the above Euros after exchanging some greenbacks this afternoon. When I opened the scanned image in Photoshop, I recieved the message, "This application does not support the printing of banknote images." The legal requirements for the digital reproduction of the Euro require that the image be 72 dpi (or less) and include the word "SPECIMEN" printed diagonally across the reproduction. It's incredible that Photoshop was able to recognize the scanned image as banknotes.