H and J for me. I prefer birds much more than people on the design and those two designs are actually colorful and distinct from the current more bland colors.
I would completely remove people and would add fish, plants and monuments.
Keep it abstract! I love the windows and bridges current theme. Couldn't we make a new design with the same colors and prompt?
No famous people!
Abstract doesn't mean anything. It doesn't evoke any feeling or being European or make it stand out as a European bank note. It could be money from some children's game set.
50 guilders note would like a word. As loved as a banknote design can be
I am kind of in love with F and H.
F because it's the only design that really tries to be differnet, fun and daring. I love the color combinations and how expressive they are. I am aware that this probably isn't going to be the one that's picked, but man, would it be cool it this was what the Euro looked like in the future.






H because they are, in my opinion the prettiest animal notes. Again, lively colors that are combines beautifully, and I like that they are horizontal. The tenner with the kingfisher is so pretty, I would frame it and put it on a wall.






I'm not voting, though, because I'm Danish and we still use our own currency. We probably will make the shift to Euroes someday, but until then, I don't feel it's appropriate for me to vote for the design of a currency that isn't used in my country.
I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to vote for the design of a currency that isn’t used in my country.

Aye, I can do that.
Granted, it's a bit of a silly issue for us Danes because we really, really, REALLY like our currency which is why we voted no to the Euro back in the day.
I understand that people in some countries don't really get countries like ours and our love for our royal family, but we were very attached to our former queen's face on our coins 😆 now we have a king and her face is slowly being replaced with his so maybe we will be more agreeable when it comes to switching to Euros now, lol. He's not a bad king, but he is no Daisy. She ruled for 52 years and is the longest reigning monarch in our history and she was and is very beloved.
I don't understand why they included vertical designs and suddenly want pictures of real people on the banknotes when they used to say it is better to have something neutral on there. From the comment here I like B and D most, but I don't know if the images from the comment are the same as the ones in the survey because I think there were more designs. Still B and D are worse than the current designs.
I’ve voted; but basically all designs are beautiful: colorful, optimistic, modern.
Some designs are quite decent, but I'm not sure the individuals, birds, activities and buildings depicted, resonate with most Europeans. The individuals are of select member states, the birds might go completely unrecognized, the activities are rather academic, and the buildings of EU institutions? WAY too much self-praise. I would rather see subjects that are more broadly applicable, over ones focused on specific individuals, birds, activities and buildings, like: cultural achievements, landmarks spanning multiple member states (seas, mountains, rivers), infrastructure connecting member states, cultural diversity, cultural values, etc.
It would also be neat if these flashy new notes were actually accepted in physical transactions...
Why all the birds? We need at least a cat and a dog.
Yeah they should've had different animals.
The most popular notes in Denmark were the ones with different animals. Pay me squirrel, I can't give a fish back on your lizard.
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.
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.
Ok then we should have wild animals like squirrels, moose and beavers. There are so many beautiful animals in Europe. No reason to restrict the collection to birds only.
One of the stated design goals with the existing design is to make them as generic as possible so as not to show favouritism towards a particular country. If you asked me for famous European figures to put on the notes, I'd probably name Beethoven, Curie and Da Vinci, but by including them you're highlighting a Germany, France/Poland and Italy. The building designs are boring but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The birds are cute, but I'd like to have seen broader nature themes: birds, fish, mammals and biomes would have been nice.
Bridges were a great idea and maybe other infrastructure like railroads and tunnels as a symbol of connecting countries.
I really like design D. F is cool as well, really unique design, but I think I prefer the birds because they're more inclusive than people from specific countries.
D was really nice, but I absolutely loved the colourful stork on I. Maybe cause I'm Bulgarian and biased, but it was my favourite one. In any case I agree - hope they pick the birds over a whole bunch of central/western European people.
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I find the backsides with the EU buildings too self-praising. I think the European people have more things that unite, than the buerocratic institutions.
The backsides of the people bills are also too general, I would like to see more of the people's work or achievements.
Generally I like the current design with fictional bridges and buildings, so no country is preferred.
I also think most of the back sides are just generally uninspired - bland, almost AI-like look, no interesting (or even aesthetic) themes. Many of the front sides I liked, so this is disappointing.
I don’t like the building at all. These are modern building which are not build for millenials.
~~The survey isn't good. They should've at least written a comment about each note. I don't recognise most of the people on there. ~~
~~Maybe y'all can help out.~~
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Great of you to put the images here, thank you!
Just for the sake of completeness, that's not all the series. I really liked series I, for example.
There's a character limit, unfortunately, and I could fit them all there.
Never mind, the ECB announced who they are
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| €5 Performing arts | Maria Callas | Street performers (music/dance/theatre) entertaining passersby | ||
| €10 Music | Ludwig van Beethoven | A song festival with a choir of children and young adults singing | ||
| €20 Universities and schools | Marie Curie Skłodowska | A school or university with a female teacher with young students. There are notebooks and books on the tables | ||
| €50 Libraries | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | A library with some adults reading paper and digital books. A little boy and girl in front of a bookcase trying to get a book | ||
| €100 Museums and exhibitions | Leonardo da Vinci | Adults and children admiring some examples of street art, contemporary art, etc. | ||
| €200 Public squares | Bertha von Suttner | A tree-covered square allowing people to come together, with adults and children talking, walking, playing, etc. |
Maria Callas isn't even European by birth. She's born in the USA.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [...] was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language [...] He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel. Don Quixote has been labelled by many well-known authors as the "best book of all time" and the "best and most central work in world literature".
Wow first try and already perfected the artform, why did anyone else bothered writing books? Idiots!
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.
The current designs are boring but good. Nature and birds would be good, people not so much.
Uff, there are some ... daring ... design proposals included.
I'm more worried that none of then appeared to have been created with color blind people in mind. Like at least don't mix green and red. Like 1 in 12 males are color blind and the most common is the red and green one. Source: Wikipedia
Yes, but that I actually really like. They have always been pretty bold in colour already, but some of the new designs match that boldness. Some are unlike any notes I have ever seen which I just think is cool.
I love Weird Europe, some of these banknotes perfectly fit the bill (semi-pun).
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.
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.
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
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
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