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Bank Note Design
| March 08, 2007

The design of currency, paper bank notes in particular, can be interesting. One of the most prominent designs has been a set of Dutch Guilders by Robert Oxenaar pictured above.

What can be even more intriguing than the visual aspects are the *symbols* selected to represent and identify the issuing nation. If you could choose new imagery for your own national currency, what would it be?

A very nice book is The Art of Money by David Standish.

Tags:  bank notes, currency, national identity, public

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Sameera K
on March 08, 2007

i really should find and scan some curacao money for you. You would love it! its still in guilders but its antillian guilders rather than dutch antillian ones. each has birds and buildings rather than people

 

ana perez
on March 09, 2007

That was my favorite school project. I choose bridges for imagery... they connect, support the country... traffic flows through them connecting people and they are beautiful too!

 

Brian Slawson
on March 09, 2007

I think the winning design for the Euro used a similar architectural theme of "gateways and windows".

Here are the proposed designs for the Euro (a bit hard to navigate the site, click around and you'll figure it out). A similar French site about the Euro bank note contest.

 

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