The majority of the pieces in this series feature textual elements that include well-known slogans and quotations, reflecting the artist's social awareness (e.g., “Quo vadis?”, “L’homme sans pays” – a man without a country), as well as his unique sense of humor (e.g., “Napoleon ou rien” – “Napoleon or nothing”, “Millionario o Muerte” – “Millionaires or Death”, a reinterpretation of “Patria o muetre!”). Numerous euro banknotes are connected by Tân’s favorite quotation from Dostoevsky: “Beauty will save the world”, which challenges the authority of actual currency in a commercialized society. Throughout the decade, the series transformed, particularly after 1996, when the artist began creating dollar-sized, duplicated, and hand-colored currency notes (including dollars, euros, pounds et cetera) that could serve as functional money.