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Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by tialaramex »

hinata08 wrote: post #23
grim_io wrote: post #11

Birds are clearly superior.

I don't like to have silhouettes instead of people on the back, and that buildings related to the current institutions are featured on so many designs These are a current necessities, but nothing to sanctuarize for the future. The only thing that should remain stable in Europe are ideas, and the Swiss got it better on their notes

> These are a current necessities, but nothing to sanctuarize for the future.

Although the ECB does not today "withdraw" notes in the sense that they cease to be valid for most purposes, it does deliberately destroy old notes and issue new ones with different images to replace them, so the original series must be getting pretty rare by now - not rare enough to be worth serious collectors paying money for it, but your ten year old may never have seen an actual old Euro €500 note even though in principle those still are valid money in the Eurozone.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by derdi »

I don't like having people on banknotes, for the simple reason that one day a French lobby group would decide that Napoleon is a great European who deserves to be on one.

I think the buildings are ugly, and D does its best to obscure them. So that's my winner.

F has very strong "Soviet children's book" vibes.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by derdi »

TitaRusell wrote: post #59
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?

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.

I mean, half of these proposals put specific people from specific countries on banknotes. So it's hard to argue that it would be impossible to do the same with buildings.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by latexr »

carlosjobim wrote: post #67

Who is the smug lady?

That’s Beethoven. I know his hair is a bit long, but that’s a man. He does look a bit miffed, but can you blame him? Being deaf when you’re a composer must not have been pleasant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

If you don’t recognise someone else, they are named in the brief.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr2501...

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by shimonabi »

vrganj wrote: post #52
shimonabi wrote: post #49

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?

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.

I'd rather have Henry Kissinger on the note.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by vrganj »

shimonabi wrote: post #87
vrganj wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'd rather have Henry Kissinger on the note.

Yikes.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by dang »

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.

Thanks! changed from https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/ht... above. I've put the original URL in the toptext.

Re: Future euro banknote design proposals

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Post by scuppernong »

abc123abc123 wrote: post #41
vrganj wrote: post #13

Earlier 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…

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