It's a shame due to Brexit there will be no Count Binface €10.
The Monnaie de Paris could still do a coin series with him, just to spite Farage.
Future euro banknote design proposals
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I prefer the Birds & Rivers theme because nobody is expecting a specific bird to meet some arbitrary ideal whereas if you put identifiable humans on a banknote people start to mistake their inevitable flaws for a desirable property. I feel this more strongly for statues, but it seems desirable for the Euro or any potential international currency too.
> if you put identifiable humans on a banknote people start to mistake their inevitable flaws for a desirable property Does the same logic extend all elevated positions? A person in a national portrait gallery, a person with a statue, a person with an olympic medal or a nobel prize, a person with a fancy title like president or queen? Or is there something specific about bank notes that makes them more problematic?
You may have noticed that all the people on these banknotes are, much like on US banknotes, dead. So that insulates them from a lot of things which happen to living people if we reconsider them.
We can and do take away honours from living people, you might remember that Paula Vennells had an OBE, but that was removed because while she hasn't and likely won't ever be actually prosecuted for it, it's obviously her fault that so many UK subpostmasters were convicted of crimes they didn't commit and in some cases even committed suicide.
Likewise the present King of England's brother would in the ordinary course of things be a pretty important guy with the title Prince and so on. But he's not, he's just Andrew because even though again he's unlikely to face prosecution it does seem like he fucked an underage girl trafficked by Epstein so the King took away his titles.
But for example Oscar Pistorius has several medals for running - not just in paralympic events but straight up against people with both legs and no running blades. The medals weren't retracted when he murdered somebody or even when he was sent to prison for the murders. Oscar still ran really fast and the medals stand. But hopefully we are clear that "Was very fast" and "Is a terrible person" are compatible ideas.
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#123I love they don't explain what's in the banknote. Am I suppose to know everything? jeez
They’re called birds. They fly and make weird noises.
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#124Birds are clearly superior.
Birds aren't real.
Seems like some people are missing the joke
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
The original euro banknotes were replaced between 2013 and 2019 and are still accepted everywhere you can use the new ones.
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#126For me, across all of them only two felt actually decent for a bank note (B & E, I is okay, just not used to bank notes in that orientation, same for J, but that one should be more monochrome). Either they were too vibrant or the design was too busy/had unnecesary elements. I also feel like the notes that had buildings (like we have now) are just.. better. The initial run of 2002-2013 remains the best aesthetically,…
I think H works too. It's a good compromise between fresh colors and familiar design.
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#127It's gonna be E. The birds are nice, but there's no way they do the birds. The other ones with people are too photorealistic or too cartoonish.
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#128Are they going to switch to plastic while they're at it? That's the only thing I'll miss if Romania ever switches to Euro. Cash you can launder. Literally.
Euroes are cotton fiber and washable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mCVOAXLg00
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#129Decent enough, but quite boring. The nicest notes I know about currently are the Norwegian ones https://www.norges-bank.no/tema/Sedler-og-mynter/gyldige-sed... But the Canadian ones are physically impressive, they don't really crumble, and seem immune to both liquid and tearing.
I like the Swiss franc banknotes personally
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> absence of €1 and €2 banknotes The US style? I much prefer the Japanese style instead (where €5 would be a coin instead of a note). When our largest coin is too small to buy a drink at a vending machine we've got a problem. ATMs don't turn over €5 notes anyway, so their existence is painfully awkward.
Why, though? I'd much prefer not to carry any coins at all, ever since I gave up and stopped fighting the Big Brother (I applaud everyone who still does, but it just didn't seem like my struggle was productive). I mean, to think of it, coins never were very nice to use, I just wasn't bothered by it, because the volume of cash on me was quite significant anyway. Now it's not and I just don't carry any coins at all. Pa…
Coins are far more durable and usually easier for machines to properly sense. If you're using vending machines to buy drinks it's nice just dropping a coin or two into a machine and getting a beverage. Notes can get worn and fail to read properly by machines taking bills in the field. When you need like 5 of the most widely circulated coins for a single drink it gets annoying though.
I miss seeing machines that would bend a 12oz can of soda for 25¢. Those were the days.
I sometimes go to coin-op car washes, it sucks having to punch a fist full of quarters into the machine for a quick wash.