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Birds are clearly superior.
by grim_io 3mo ago
Birds are clearly superior.
- hinata08 3mo agoI 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
- tialaramex 3mo ago> 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.
- bostik 3mo ago> deliberately destroy old notes and issue new ones with different images to replace them Big part of the reason for this appears to be security. Many years ago a high-ranking official from Finnish central bank told in an interview that bank notes need to be redesigned approximately once per decade. Reason is that it takes about that long for the materials and printing technology to get commoditised enough for criminal enterprises to be able to start manufacturing "high-grade" forgeries at any real scale. Every generation of bank notes employs a whole bunch of newly developed technologies and tricks that make the notes themselves distinctive, as well as incredibly difficult[ß] to forge. ß: Some of it is down to tightly locked down and guarded speciality supply chains. Some is due to advances in microprinting and ilk. If you had unlimited resources, you could arrange to have the necessary equipment, supplies, staff and materials to print your own forged money. It'd just be slow, low-yield and very expensive.
- pelagicAustral 3mo agoDesign H ftw
- sunaookami 3mo agoBirds aren't real.
- mytailorisrich 3mo agoThat'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. Obviously there aren't enough different banknotes to represent every country, either.
- ncruces 3mo agoExactly. Faces are a terrible idea for a common currency shared by 21 countries. You have to pick one writer, good that the English left for good so Shakespeare's out, but how do the French feel about Cervantes vs. Victor Hugo? The Poles complaining that they didn't get enough recognition because Marie Curie's maiden name isn't given enough prominence should tell you all there is to know about this being a good idea.
- seszett 3mo ago> how do the French feel about Cervantes vs. Victor Hugo? I don't think anybody would mind since there's already Marie Curie, which is an obvious choice because she's both Polish and French. I don't know how the Polish take it but the French have no particular feelings about her being Polish as well.
- mytailorisrich 3mo agoYou still need to tread carefully as @ncruses said. So not Marie Curie but Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
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- kaizenb 3mo agoBirds are the way.
- vrganj 3mo agoI 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?)
- Hamuko 3mo agoI want someone to slap a blackbird on my bank notes. Preferably all denominations.
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