I really like some of them and some look like prints on bus seat covers.
And Ludwig van Beethoven looks mean as hell on some.
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The survey seems very AI. Anyway, I prefer the bird ones, though really they should just pick generic symbols again. The bridges and buildings worked just fine for this.
Series D reminds me of 90’s guilders, though, so I liked that one.
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Series F or G for me. F has hand drawn images which is incredibly unusual but I really love it (even more so in the time of AI). It just feels radical and unexpected. G feels both retro and current, more of a typical banknote but still a striking design.
The birds bore me and the institution buildings aren't the worst idea but there was a reason why we only had fictional architecture on the old notes and some of the buildings just aren't that exciting.
Hand drawn and creep faces (A) are by far the best
I find the A series a little boring, feels like so many banknotes that already exist and what quite annoys me is that some have pictures and others paintings of people. I would strongly prefer them to be the same (and ideally painted in that case).
Which banknotes utilises the most unflattering creep shots of faces?
That's not something I've seen anywhere before, the rest of the people ones are pretty standard. But creepy faces is absolutely not normal
They're very similar, either people, buildings or birds as main designs and feels boring as well as the designs being mainly ugly. Some are nice but don't feel inclusive for all of Europe. I feel like the designs should be more generic to be inclusive of all countries, so no famous people or country-specific buildings/geography. I like the EU stars, constellations, the map of Europe, symbols of what Europe represents.
Birds are a pretty good motif because a small selection of them might already span the whole continent (don't know if that's specifically the case here), disregarding any borders. They also lack representation in a part of the world where people classify themselves mostly as either a dog or a cat person.
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What's with all the birds? Did someone study bird law?
ill take the birds over the ugly generic modern buildings every day
The Netherlands once had banknotes like that
Not a euro citizen, so not voting; but series H would very have my vote
You can vote, at the end there is an option to select that you are not an EU citizen.
The only thing is to make sure trump does not photobomb the session.
European website for euro banknotes and I can't enter because of CLOUD FLARE
Honestly I don’t really like the current design and some of the bird ones were cool, but I feel like you can’t even tell that some of these designs are euro banknotes
Why all the birds? We need at least a cat and a dog.
Birds don't belong to a single country or person, yet are very noticeable and something a lot of people can associate with.
And at least to me, they symbolise freedom, and more specifically freedom of movement. They go wherever they want, whenever they want, with no restriction. And this is a fundamental idea of the EU.
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House cats are an invasive species that kill all the birds. Hardly an animal worth putting on a bill. Large cats were however once native to Europe, which is why you see so many lion crests, but putting that on there would hardly seem progressive.
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There are some colorful and modern looking ones which I prefer over the existing ones. But some are too chaotic, some too dull, some too personal.
Monero Logo??