Currency of the 'Verse...

Great work, Mike.

When working on cleanup I had noticed granularity/clarity variance in the artwork and figured they hadn't created everything from scratch. Why it didn't occur to me to try to figure out what they used is beyond me.

Well done.
 
The shape of things to come:

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I'm still looking for someone to host the scan of the original. Email or PM me if you can help.


-Mike
 
Oh my God. this is so cool. I cant wait
im looking for a good frame this week to put all these bills, it will definatelly go up in my office.
gonna use this image on the bottom
serenitylogoblack3.jpg


and this one on the top
firefly.gif


found them on the net but i think it will look cool
 
I've been discussing this with Sith Sheriff Brody on IM and these are some things I noticed and discussed with him. If anyone sees anything different then voice your ideas. I'm hoping more eyes might find more details.

First off, the series bill is definitely more square than the movie bill. The pic of the envy bill shows that it's definitely been squashed lengthwise.
compressed_bill.jpg


Second is regarding the artwork on the one side (I know Philippes has stated in the past that the bills were the same on both sides, but I will go into that in a sec). It's too hard to tell what it is, but I'm going to assume there is some Chinese significance to it. Perhaps if anyone here is Chinese or knows someone who is Chinese they might recognize it.
face-like_art.jpg


Ok, then we get to the bill either having 2 different sides or there being 2 different bills. In the screen grab where Mal flips the bartender the bill it's obviously different than the other bills seen folded up in the otehr screen grabs and even the back of the one you can see in his other hand in the same scene. After a lot of thinking and some playing around I think it might be the same Bhutan note but modified a little differently. In the pic below I cut out the circle in the centre and englarged it and also kept it circular while squashing the rest of the bill (see the image below that which is just a quick and dirty version of what I think they might have done).
bill_reverse.jpg

quick_bill.jpg


So, ideas? Thoughts? Am I making myself look like an ass here?
 
Originally posted by dr_slurpee@Jan 19 2006, 10:40 PM
I've been discussing this with Sith Sheriff Brody on IM and these are some things I noticed and discussed with him. If anyone sees anything different then voice your ideas. I'm hoping more eyes might find more details.

First off, the series bill is definitely more square than the movie bill. The pic of the envy bill shows that it's definitely been squashed lengthwise.
compressed_bill.jpg


Second is regarding the artwork on the one side (I know Philippes has stated in the past that the bills were the same on both sides, but I will go into that in a sec). It's too hard to tell what it is, but I'm going to assume there is some Chinese significance to it. Perhaps if anyone here is Chinese or knows someone who is Chinese they might recognize it.
face-like_art.jpg


Ok, then we get to the bill either having 2 different sides or there being 2 different bills. In the screen grab where Mal flips the bartender the bill it's obviously different than the other bills seen folded up in the otehr screen grabs and even the back of the one you can see in his other hand in the same scene. After a lot of thinking and some playing around I think it might be the same Bhutan note but modified a little differently. In the pic below I cut out the circle in the centre and englarged it and also kept it circular while squashing the rest of the bill (see the image below that which is just a quick and dirty version of what I think they might have done).
bill_reverse.jpg

quick_bill.jpg


So, ideas? Thoughts? Am I making myself look like an ass here?
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from watching the episodes i have come to believe the bill used when mal is buying a drink in the train job is a 50 dollar bill, while most of the other bills are 20 hence the colors being different, of course i could be totally and utterly wrong
 
Originally posted by Sith Sheriff Brody@Jan 19 2006, 07:20 PM
The shape of things to come:

preview.jpg


I'm still looking for someone to host the scan of the original. Email or PM me if you can help.


-Mike
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Are those idealized/customized colors and designs, or is that the fo' shizzy real stuff?.
 
Ain't these guys smart?

My ngol..nugol.n........ foreign thingie came in the mail today. Wasn't till I pulled it out and I laid it out on top of the screen-used 100 and 500 I got that I realized they never even bothered to edit out where the original text stuck out around the edges of the new text at the top and bottom of the bill.

Rush job, indeed. :)



Originally posted by jedilos@Jan 23 2006, 01:52 AM
just curious if there is any new progress on this? this has been such a great read
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Originally posted by Sith Sheriff Brody@Jan 19 2006, 11:20 PM
The shape of things to come:

preview.jpg


I'm still looking for someone to host the scan of the original. Email or PM me if you can help.


-Mike
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Sith Sheriff Brody, Perhaps you should start a new thread stating your looking for someone to host these. Someone may be happy to do it but not be reading this post.

David.
 
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