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Who will be the Pascals, Delacroix and other Saint-Exupéry of our future tickets? Bank ? For the twenty years of the single currency, the European Central Bank (ECB) is working on new banknotes.
And if at 1is January 2024, on the twenty euro banknotes, was Simone Weil? It’s not completely science-fiction : our euros will change shape. You use them every day, but you’re not sure that the drawings that illustrate them have made a strong impression on you. No national symbol should appear on the ticket. At the time, the designer of the euro explained his choices: “Bridges are the symbol of connection with other countries“.
For twenty years, these old euros have had their day: who would you like to see on the new banknotes? “Important figures in our time, such as Simone Weil“, launches a Toulousain. “At the moment, we are talking about Molière for example. It’s our story“, proposes a passerby. At the time of the franc, the banknotes were symbolized by characters from the history of France. There was no shortage of ideas, but for the euro, it will be complicated. “It would take a character that encompasses the history of the whole of Europe“, suggests a young man. Why not Leonardo da Vinci, who already had the honor of the Italian lira? But it will take six illustrious women or men for six different banknotes, recognized by all European citizens.