Interesting. Do you have a source? EDIT: For whatever it's worth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes#Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_bankno

Interesting. Do you have a source? EDIT: For whatever it's worth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes#Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes#Design says "The initial designs by Robert Kalina were of actual bridges, including the Rialto Bridge in Venice and the Pont de Neuilly in Paris, and were subsequently rendered more generic.", citing https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/news/etching-the-notes-of-a-new-european-identity.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/news/etching-the-notes-of.... This is a much weaker claim than what you wrote, and even this isn't supported by the article. The relevant parts of the NYT article are: "For his central motif, Mr. Kalina chose a bridge — not Pont Neuf in Paris or Venice's Bridge of Sighs. Mr. Kalina's was a bridge that no European had ever crossed. The ground rules for the design strictly prohibited displaying any recognizable national monuments or heroes that risked giving greater prominence to one country over another. So Mr. Kalina took bits and pieces of Europe's great bridges and with the help of his computer melded them into a neutered bridge presumably acceptable to all. "Hopefully," Mr. Kalina said with a grin, "no one will recognize the old places" incorporated in the design." and "He began the design process by scanning in architectural images from library books and toying with them on his Apple Macintosh. The initial landmarks included known sites such as the Rialto bridge in Venice and Pont de Neuilly just outside Paris. But Mr. Kalina, guided by the need to stress a European identity over any national loyalties, painstakingly eradicated all recognizable vestiges of each image, pixel by pixel." This doesn't sound to me like "the initial designs were of actual bridges", like Wikipedia says. And especially not like "copying" and "fraud" like you said.