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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1757716, member: 39&quot;]In Europe it&#039;s ... well, if the term &quot;design by committee&quot; did not have that negative meaning, I&#039;d say that is usually it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But usually artists/historians/designers are somehow involved too. Sweden for example is about to introduce a new banknote series. The country&#039;s central bank decided, two years ago, who or what should be depicted, then artists submitted suggestions, then a jury picked the &quot;best&quot; series.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Swedish central bank had one problem, by the way, that had nothing to do with people (dis)liking the designs but was copyright related. In many cases the works of the participating designers were based on photographies, and the bank asked the people who had taken the photos whether they could be used provided some royalty fee was paid. Fine in all cases - except for the planned portrait of (former UN secretary general) Dag Hammarskjöld. So a different photo had to be found that will now be on the 1000 kronor note. More <a href="http://www.riksbank.se/Documents/Sedlar_mynt/2013/Memorandum%20Copyright%20issues%20in%20the%20new%20banknote%20series.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.riksbank.se/Documents/Sedlar_mynt/2013/Memorandum%20Copyright%20issues%20in%20the%20new%20banknote%20series.pdf" rel="nofollow">here (PDF, English)</a>; see section &quot;5. Remuneration&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Side note: Who made that &quot;new photo&quot;? Yousuf Karsh ... who also took the photo of Winston Churchill which will be used on the new Bank of England&#039;s £5 note. Seems his heirs were OK with the use of Karsh&#039;s Hammarskjöld photo too.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Gender balance on notes makes sense to me. If you have, say, six denominations, finding three men and three women who should be honored is not that hard. Germany did that with the last pre-euro series, Sweden does it, Norway does ...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One thing that many people here in Europe did not like about the euro banknotes (let&#039;s leave the political comments aside please) is that they did not depict any people, just bridges and windows and arches. Well, the new series has a small image of the ancient goddess <a href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/europa/html/index.en.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/europa/html/index.en.html" rel="nofollow">Europa</a> - on the other hand, what do the new <a href="http://www.nationalbanken.dk/DNUK/NotesAndCoins.nsf/side/Danish_banknote_series!OpenDocument" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nationalbanken.dk/DNUK/NotesAndCoins.nsf/side/Danish_banknote_series!OpenDocument" rel="nofollow">Danish notes</a> depict? Bridges (and prehistoric art) but no humans. The future <a href="http://www.snb.ch/en/iabout/cash/newcash/id/cash_new_result#t3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.snb.ch/en/iabout/cash/newcash/id/cash_new_result#t3" rel="nofollow">Swiss notes</a>, still in the works, seem to go away from portraits too ...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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