Beethoven and Marie Curie compete with birds to appear on new euro notes European Central Bank picks two themes for redesign submissions: ‘iconic personalities’ or rivers and birds.
In the “rivers and birds” table option, a seascape of a northern gannet flying over big ocean waves is envisioned for the €200 note, with the European court of auditors on the back, while the European parliament is placed on the smallest €5 note, with a mountain spring and “wallcreeper next to a mountain landscape” on the other side.
When the euro banknotes were created by the Austrian designer Robert Kalina, his “ages and styles of Europe” notes featured seven abstract, fictional bridges representing different design eras, rather than choosing one country’s designs or historical figures over the others.
He was a master of notes, and now the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven could be one of the faces of the redesigned euro, the first time the EU currency’s banknotes have been revamped.
In a process that started in 2021 and has already involved a public inquiry and two multidisciplinary advisory groups, the European Central Bank (ECB) has selected two themes for the redesign.
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