[Someone]

> The whole "some person's face" thing doesn't work because most people won't be familiar with them.

There’s millennia of history of having coins and paper money faces that most people will not be familiar with.

> The previous two series - depicting bridge types and building styles - neatly bypassed this by being something everyone could relate to,

I don’t see much difference there. Just as many people can’t see more than “man with beard” or “bird with long legs”, I bet many people can’t seen more than “old bridge” or “modern bridge” for the current designs (what fraction of the population can discriminate the €5 ‘classical’ from the €10 ‘romanesque’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes)?)

[sznio]

I think the whole original bridge and doorway was representing the whole idea of the Euro. The bridge between various nations, the doorway into a larger market.

As the EU is slowly growing beyond just economical ties I assume it tries to form a pan-european identity, hence why some famous European people. And Skłodowska to entice the Poles to drop their currency and finally join the Eurozone.

I still don't know who is it that they placed on the 5€ banknote