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Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by abc123abc123 »

vrganj wrote: post #13
klausa wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the motifs were selected ~1.5y ago: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr2501...

As an Austrian, it feels a bit annoying that the Germans got their one famous composer - they're kind of our thing! Why not Mozart, Strauss, Haydn, Schubert? It's also unfortunate that the nice peaceful bird motif was paired with the ugly modern buildings on the other side.

Don't you worry. This is a political process and politicians are basically big children, so no country will ever accept notes without someone famous from their country on the note.

So al will be watered down to abstract art or animals in the end, so that the suggestion with the least amount of friction gets accepted.

Like all decision in democracy, it is not about finding the best solution, it's about the solution with the least nr of votes against it. That is why democracy never works in the long term, because it is a long, drawn out, trip to the bottom.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by soco »

fodkodrasz wrote: post #14

I wonder why do we need new notes... but I guess running some competition is not a tragedy. You can see all side-by-side here: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/ht... My takes: Designs A and B and I are not terrible, but I'm not impressed. Design C - the backside looks like the worst soulless corporate landing page graphics (Corporate Memphis style?). Design D and E, H are okayish. Possibly I'…

I love H, and I mean it - not only acceptable but even pleasing to me, quite surprising to say. A and B stayed too long in the sun, C indeed is PowerPoint heaven, D is fun but in a circus entry ticket way, E reminds me of a school book and not in the good way, F ouch my eyes too much going on, G okayish but doesn't feel like a banknote but rather... flyers? I - spilled its colors in a watercolor cleaning water way, and finally J is too photo-realistic to look banknote-ish to me.

PS you can even vote for them! https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by ketzu »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #36

So many of these have some building as the backdrop, but all the buildings are modernist skyscrapers and uninspired office buildings Europe doesn't have a dearth of stunning architecture. Have they all been discarded in favor of ugly straightline modernist sloptitecture because they might be construed as offensive for some reason?

> but all the buildings are modernist skyscrapers and uninspired office buildings

Because they are the european institutions, eg the EU parliament building, EU comission, etc.

They are mostly office buildings.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by timpera »

I try to pay everything in cash as much as I can, so it's nice to see the banknotes get some love from the ECB (even though the absence of €1 and €2 banknotes still hurts…).

I think it's a bit strange to feature people on these, plus it would be difficult to agree on who to feature between the 21 € states. The birds look cool! But it would have been nice to modernize the current architecture-based design rather than feature random EU office buildings.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by TacticalCoder »

broken-kebab wrote: post #39

Flip sides on all of them look like they are taken from a random free vector illustrations archive.

Yup terribly bad. I pick the birds: those with portraits of people are really badly fucked up and the faces do not integrate well at all with the notes.

The current ones are much better looking than any of those.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by rcxdude »

LukaD wrote: post #37
frb wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder why do we need new notes... Every redesign introduces new (secret) watermarks, patterns that are hard to copy, so it's also a "tech" update. Eventually more and more of the details become public. By now the current banknotes are too well known and I guess the counterfeits are getting too close.

> Every redesign introduces new (secret) watermarks, patterns that are hard to copy, so it's also a "tech" update. Eventually more and more of the details become public. By now the current banknotes are too well known and I guess the counterfeits are getting too close. But if I wanted to create counterfeit euro bank notes I could just go with the old ones, no? Anyway, I think creating new designs just for fun is a go…

The old ones get pulled out of circulation and usually stop being accepted at most places, or at least get more scrutiny.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by matthiasv »

vrganj wrote: post #13
klausa wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the motifs were selected ~1.5y ago: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr2501...

As an Austrian, it feels a bit annoying that the Germans got their one famous composer - they're kind of our thing! Why not Mozart, Strauss, Haydn, Schubert? It's also unfortunate that the nice peaceful bird motif was paired with the ugly modern buildings on the other side.

> Mozart

I don't want to open old wounds but Mozart's nationality is debated and warrants its own long Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart%27s_nationality

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by shimonabi »

I don't like the designs.

I didn't even know who the person on the 200€ bill is until today and I have a suspicion she was chosen by some woke EU bureaucrat. I'm sure Europe had better persons in its history.

If Maria Callas is suitable for currency, why not put Daft Punk on it?

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by kaizenb »

klausa wrote: post #4

A better link might be https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/ht... , which has all of the proposals on a single page for easier browsing.

I wish I've seen this before clicking 2359 times :/ Thanks anyway at least now I can share the right experience with people so they won't suffer like me.

Also I like birds. H looks nice.

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