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Who is the smug lady?
The angry one is Ludwig van Beethoven.
I guess of the designs with people I only like designs E and F. There the expressions don't look too odd. Takes some getting used too though.
The only reason I can think of for this is a push to a cashless society. Specially the vertical banknotes, what is up with that?
> Specially the vertical banknotes, what is up with that? They look awesome. Design I is amazing
The only reason I can think of for this is a push to a cashless society. Specially the vertical banknotes, what is up with that?
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> Specially the vertical banknotes, what is up with that? They look awesome. Design I is amazing
Sure, but people hold them and look at them horizontally, elderly people will get super-confused.
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.
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> 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.
That does not mean they were the only possible choice. Personally, I find having my continent represented by them an extreme insult.
I'm not trying to start a debate about relevance, but I can't recognize the faces on the 50 and 200 noted. An author and a "nature lover", I guess ?
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That's exactly why they are a better choice, like the imaginary bridges on current Euro banknotes. The selection of people is also quite poor but that's because people are a poor choice: Most notable historical people are very linked to specific countries, often against other countries so picking neutral ones is hard. They also clearly decided to have an equal number of men and women, which makes it even harder. Obvi…
They could have done the same thing they did with the coins and make every country put their own faces in there.
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> 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 fau…