Birds are clearly superior.
Birds are the way.
Future euro banknote design proposals
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#52I 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?
As an Austrian, Bertha von Suttner is a big deal. First woman to win a Nobel Peace prize (and probably the reason that prize exists in the first place!), second woman to win a Nobel ever (after Curie). Your ignorance of her is not an indictment of "woke bureaucrats".
Daft Punk honestly sounds cool, but we probably shouldn't be putting any living personalities on there. Feels kinda weird.
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#53Birds are clearly superior.
I feel like birds are the superior front, but boring EU buildings are the worse back.
I'd like the birds front with the other option for the back (public squares or something?)
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#54What's with all the birds? Also I like A the best. It's very modern.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 wi…
TBH the only acceptable approach here would be similar to coins - where each member state may print their own people on some of the notes to keep representation.
Putting 6 people of 27 member states is just asking for trouble and lacks representation.
(I still prefer the current approach of using non-existing bridgets as a motif.)
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#56Earlier 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…
Old bank notes are not in circulation forever. They are accounted for by serial numbers. Banks and ATMs can process the serials and designs and report them. Eventually bank notes get pulled out of circulation. So an old bank note is by default suspicious and gets checked more thoroughly. Counterfeiters mostly benefit by blending in with the masses, so having some old note can raise suspicion.
Maybe it is also just fun...
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, the motifs were selected ~1.5y ago: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr2501...
Offensively dull. One shudders to think about the endless bickering that went in to this. May I propose 6 shades of off-white adorned with geometric shapes. €5 gets dots, €10 lines, €20 triangles and so on. €100 may have pentagrams instead of pentagons to keep Twitter on its toes.
Pentagons are plenty occult fnord!
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#58I love they don't explain what's in the banknote. Am I suppose to know everything? jeez
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#59So 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?
Disclaimer: IDGAF haven't used cash in years
Europe is a continent with countries that have literally centuries of enimity and nationalism between them. You cannot put a French building on a banknote.
Bland and inoffensive is what keeps the Union together. Its why Strasbourg exists. Its why there are Dutch translators despite the fact every Dutch member of parliament speeches in English.
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#60I love they don't explain what's in the banknote. Am I suppose to know everything? jeez