ART wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 7:56 pm
Very interesting, even if I have always thought that the banknotes of an internationally important currency such as the euro should never deviate too much from the initial basic model, because they must be immediately recognizable for the style even outside EU.
Well: europas keep images, sizes and basic colors of 2002s, and my guess is that at least the two latter characteristics are not going to change.
Apart from that, I can say that from 1978 (aprox, I think) we had 3 ABSOLUTELY different 100 pta banknotes (in design and size, all same brown), 2 different 500, 4 different 1.000, 2 different 2.000 (the second "model" printed in two different colours, dark red first, orange later), 2 different 5.000 and 2 different 10.000. All of them sharing common colours, but totyally different image, totally different style disegn, and becoming smaller and smaller at every new edition.
When I was in Germany in january 1991, there were the old "baroque" banknotes along with totally different new modern ones. And in UK they have (or had together for a year or so) old 5 & 10 pound banknotes together with new smaller vinyl ones.
If it was for me, euros would get back their national letters, and not only that: I'd reserve 1/4 of the area for a national image corresponding to the age of each bill: Acropolis for greek 5ers, Colosseo for italian teens, Nôtre Dame for french 20ers, Brandenburg gate for german 50ers, Elevador do Carmo for portuguese 100s or Arc de la Défense for french 200s, for a quick improvisation. Showing 6 images for 6 styles for each country.