Люди часто говорят: «Деньги не пахнут».Some people understand these words literally, others put a figurative meaning into them. What secret is contained in this order overwritten expression, if it does not lose its relevance for more than 20 centuries?
The smell of income is good ...
“Money does not smell” - this idiom came into being as an ironic commentary on the dialogue that took place between the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son Titus.
One day the Roman treasury was empty because currentIncomes to Vespasian’s many ambitious projects were no longer enough. The emperor found a nontrivial way out of the situation by imposing a new tax on newly-built public restrooms.
Titus began to reproach his father for an unaesthetic decision.of the question. Instead of answering, Vespasian handed his son the money received from the introduction of the new tax, and asked if he could smell them. Titus replied in the negative. Then the emperor was pleased that the source of money was urine.
This episode formed the basis of one of the satiricalworks of Juvenal. The cynical expression “money does not smell” that is loved by many, is a brief, prosaic version of one of its poetic lines.
Go past the coin shop workshop ...
Vespasian was definitely lucky that at the time of his dialogue with his son the Romans used metallic money. If by that time the banknotes had been invented, the world would have lost its famous maxim.
Modern paper money made from woodmass (pulp) and a mixture of cotton and linen fibers. The specially prepared cloth is soaked in gelatin to give it greater strength, and holograms, polymeric or metallized threads are inserted into it to protect the national currency from counterfeit.
Smell rubles typographical paint ...
Российская валюта действительно не отличается any peculiar smell. New rubles smell almost like fresh newspapers. Olympic souvenir 100-ruble pleased with the original vertical design, but did not smell anything special. Apparently, the developers were not tasked with flavoring domestic banknotes in some way.
Many believe that the new Americandollars smell green apples. In fact, the North American money does not smell. The main role in the distribution of this bike was played by the green color of the bills, and not by their peculiar apple flavor.
Not long ago, the Bank of Canada had to officiallyrefute reports that he is issuing notes with the smell of maple syrup. In fact, Canada has recently completely switched to banknotes, which are made of transparent and well-bending polypropylene film.
They can knead, fold and even wash inwashing machine. Unfortunately, plastic money is compressed by heat and electrified. But they are much more difficult to fake, and they are 2.5 times more durable than ordinary money.
Each bill has a special smell ...
The expression "money does not smell" can easilyto disprove any cashier who is confronted by the nature of service with large amounts of cash. Bank employees working in the cash register, with great enthusiasm, talk about what the notes that come to them smell.
"In the cash vault bring the mostof different enterprises and organizations, ”says the evening cashier of a large commercial bank. "I can tell by smell which of our clients has been visited by the collection service today." Indeed, bills that have been in a room with a strong, persistent odor for a long time will definitely absorb it.
Unfortunately, the daily revenue of the bakery is notwill delight you with the smell of fresh pastries. But the money, which was in the hands of the employees of the enterprise, pouring sweet carbonated drinks, for some time will emanate the smell of pear or orange essence.
Those who have seen ten-ruble looks give away staleness, and the scent of melted plastic, which comes from banknotes sealed in vacuum packaging, became the most favorite smell for all cashiers.
Only taxes do not smell ...
Following the emperor Vespasian, the tax authoritiessome leading European powers also decided that money does not smell. The value of this expression was fully able to assess the athletes who come to the Austrian ski resorts.
Власти этой страны ввели так называемый «налог на Gypsum ”, which aims to compensate for the cost of medical care for tourists injured and trapped in local hospitals. The presence of medical insurance, in this case, is not taken into account.
In Venice since 1993, levy a tax on the shadow.They were besieged by the owners of those buildings whose visors cast a shadow on the municipal land. When calculating the amount of tax, the number of cloudy days in a year is not taken into account.
Since 2008, the Estonian government has besieged the “environmental collection” of cow owners. Local cows were recognized as the main air pollutants in this country.
Similar examples once again confirm that withsince the Roman Empire, the principles of taxation have not changed. The state is able to derive income from the most unexpected sources, since non-cash money does not smell by definition.
