Euronotes are boring!

Eoin_Sheehy

I've always been sort of interested as to what the pictures on Euro notes signify. Recently I finally got around to finding out what they signified and turns out they signify Architactural periods in Europe (classical, romanesque, gothic and renaissance etc etc) which in fairness isn't too bad an idea. The main thing is the windows and bridges and what not on the notes don't even exist. Europe has (arguably) always been the cultural centre of the world yet we can't even find a real bridge to put on a note.


Also now that the collapse of the Euro is upon us and soon we may be reverting back to the Punt, if you had the choice what would you put on a note?

The Master

Buy yourself a pen and go nuts

Logical Fallacy

It's okay, you won't have to look at them for much longer.

Mint Sauce

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

Also now that the collapse of the Euro is upon us and soon we may be reverting back to the Punt, if you had the choice what would you put on a note?

Louis Walsh, Bertie Ahern, and Johnny Logan.

wonderfulname

It's not that they can't find the windows and bridges, it's that they can't pick and choose between the architecture of the eurozone, so instead picked design periods common to all.

I'd like to see a national vote on random designs, that's what got us the commemorative stickman coin so I'm sure the results would be... interesting

Eoin_Sheehy

wonderfulname wrote: »

It's not that they can't find the windows and bridges, it's that they can't pick and choose between the architecture of the eurozone, so instead picked design periods common to all.

I'd like to see a national vote on random designs, that's what got us the commemorative stickman coin so I'm sure the results would be... interesting

But that's exactly the point, Coins have a national symbol on the back of them denoting their country of origin, why can't we do the same with notes?

wonderfulname

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

But that's exactly the point, Coins have a national symbol on the back of them denoting their country of origin, why can't we do the same with notes?

So you want the euro to be more like sterling, where there are somewhat different notes for Scotland, the North, and England but it's all the same really?

Emiko

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

...if you had the choice what would you put on a note?

I'd put Bertie, in his yellow trousers, bloody sword in hand, standing aloft a slain tiger.

mike65

The euro slips of paper are terribly dull and "regimented" in style. The Robert Ballagh notes were better but the ones that came before his spoke of "real money" being in ones hand.

The Olivia O'Leary notes

As for figures on notes -

5 Katy French (that's the one for snorting coke with)
10 David Norris
20 Dermot Morgan
50 David McWilliams (obviously has to have one!),
100 Louis Walsh

DublinWriter

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

Also now that the collapse of the Euro is upon us and soon we may be reverting back to the Punt, if you had the choice what would you put on a note?

Well, Churchill and Spitfires if I was David Cameron and wanted the support of the good people of the UK to join the Euro.

wonderfulname

Just in the euronotes favour, they are colourful! Not as wonderfully colourful as Canadian dollars but colourful none the less. Imagine if we had US dollars? Painfully boring notes...

mackg

Rory Gallagher, Dermot Morgan, Niall Quinn

imitation

http://www.ugo.com/the-goods/cool-currency

I like the Hong Kong Dollar, looks pretty cool.

Wolfe Tone

I would put historical figures on the notes and coins, famous landmarks, buildings etc

zuroph

mackg wrote: »

Niall Quinn

We'd have to start printing the notes in portrait.

PseudoFamous

imitation wrote: »

http://www.ugo.com/the-goods/cool-currency

I like the Hong Kong Dollar, looks pretty cool.

It looks horrendous, almost like a bad trip.

IMO, a banknote should have a bright, unique colour, and the value printed in a sharp, high point font. After that, anything else is just an additional security feature. A banknote does not serve the purpose of artwork, it provides an easily tradeable means of currency, and nothing else.

Eoin_Sheehy

wonderfulname wrote: »

So you want the euro to be more like sterling, where there are somewhat different notes for Scotland, the North, and England but it's all the same really?

Yep basically, I quite like Scottish money actually.

Mike 1972

Euro notes are okay but euro coins are shyte

Eoin_Sheehy

PseudoFamous wrote: »

It looks horrendous, almost like a bad trip.

IMO, a banknote should have a bright, unique colour, and the value printed in a sharp, high point font. After that, anything else is just an additional security feature. A banknote does not serve the purpose of artwork, it provides an easily tradeable means of currency, and nothing else.

That's quite boring, having artwork on currency doesn't make it any harder to trade, currency also showcases the country (which the Euro doesn't!)

I quite liked the Swiss Franc

blue movie

I was a fan of the australian notes. Durable Ard to tear and anytime I put them in the wash by mistake in my jeans they came out fine. Unlike the €5 notes that are like wet kitchen towels!
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Eoin_Sheehy

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Euro notes are okay but euro coins are shyte

I like the British Coins where all together they form the Royal Coat of Arms, something like that which form a map of the EU or something. . . .

wonderfulname

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

I like the British Coins where all together they form the Royal Coat of Arms, something like that which form a map of the EU or something. . . .

You'd have to leave out countries, it wouldn't go down well.

PseudoFamous

I had a flick through my bookmarks, and found these:
This is an interesting interpretation of coinage, I like the modular style of it. I feel if something like this was implemented that one and two cent coins should be dropped. They hold no purpose anymore, other than retailers going on and on about how their stuff is a cent cheaper than another.

And This is actually exactly the sort of banknote I would like to see, sans American symbols.

Simplistic is nice, there's no need for art on a banknote.

EDIT: Here's another nice idea

Rented Mule

Roy Keane on every note.

....it's the way he would want it.

languagenerd

irish-stew wrote: »

Louis Walsh, Bertie Ahern, and Johnny Logan.

I laughed quite loudly at that. :P But only if Daniel O'Donnell was on one too, yeah?

wonderfulname

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Simplistic is nice, there's no need for art on a banknote.

But simplistic is art, it's a style of design.

Vicxas

I want father ted on all our notes, or the savage eye, them notes would be hilarious.

PseudoFamous

wonderfulname wrote: »

But simplistic is art, it's a style of design.

Minimalistic is art, simplicity is keeping something uncluttered.

Eoin_Sheehy

wonderfulname wrote: »

You'd have to leave out countries, it wouldn't go down well.

Malta isn't included in notes, the minimum size for countried to be included is 400km

wonderfulname

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Minimalistic is art, simplicity is keeping something uncluttered.

So you think something is only designed to be aesthetically pleasing if it is complex?

The J Stands for Jay

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Euro notes are okay but euro coins are shyte

We shouldn't have the Harp on the back of all our coins. Other countries have different designs on different Euro coins. Bring back the salmon and the stag and all that.

Rockery Woman

Poland - the Zloty notes there are covered in pictures of sour looking ould kings, with faces like bulldogs chewing wasps!

Could get a few sour looking people to pose for the notes here - at least then we might be taken more seriously :pac:

El Siglo

I don't care what cunt is on the notes and coins, so long as I have plenty of them.

Rockery Woman

McGaggs wrote: »

We shouldn't have the Harp on the back of all our coins. Other countries have different designs on different Euro coins. Bring back the salmon and the stag and all that.

Agree, it was lovely when our currency featured our native wildlife - it made us unique!

7Sins

irish-stew wrote: »

Louis Walsh, Bertie Ahern, and Johnny Logan.

Can we sculpt them into the Cliffs of Moher too

Mike 1972

Rockery Woman wrote: »

Poland - the Zloty notes there are covered in pictures of sour looking ould kings, with faces like bulldogs chewing wasps!

I thought it a bit odd myself given that theyre a Republic

Not as odd as having a 0.01 zloty coin though (= about a quarter of one cent) I thought it was bad enough having one and two cent coins in Ireland FFS

El Weirdo

mike65 wrote: »

5 Katy French (that's the one for snorting coke with)

Pfft, everyone knows that you can't snort coke with a fiver.

They're the notes that get the most use so are normally ripped and flimsy.






Erm... apparently...

PseudoFamous

wonderfulname wrote: »

So you think something is only designed to be aesthetically pleasing if it is complex?

I suggest you reread what you quoted. Simplistic is not a style of art, minimalistic is. I never suggested something needs to be complex to be purty.

emeraldstar

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

Also now that the collapse of the Euro is upon us and soon we may be reverting back to the Punt, if you had the choice what would you put on a note?

Jedward.

n900guy

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

The main thing is the windows and bridges and what not on the notes don't even exist. Europe has (arguably) always been the cultural centre of the world yet we can't even find a real bridge to put on a note.

The bridges are being built in Spijkenisse in Rotterdam.

http://www.24oranges.nl/2011/06/12/real-bridges-to-resemble-the-fictional-ones-on-euro-bank-notes/

BEASTERLY

Lads, ye have it all wrong, its not about the design its about the amount of zeros , that's what excites the masses. I think zimbabwe have the idea:

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/358152/168392.jpg

animan

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

Also now that the collapse of the Euro is upon us and soon we may be reverting back to the Punt, if you had the choice what would you put on a note?

The prophet mohammed. Just for the laugh. Whats the worst that could happen?

Mint Sauce

languagenerd wrote: »

I laughed quite loudly at that. :P But only if Daniel O'Donnell was on one too, yeah?

One Queen in place of the other?

languagenerd

irish-stew wrote: »

One Queen in place of the other?

Pretty much, yeah :P. Although if he was on the coins, we may have a problem with oul dears not spending anymore...

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

We need some Zimbabwean dollars.

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