To protect against counterfeiters, the new design of Euro banknotes will use the image of Europe — the heroine of Greek myths. Watermarks of the Phoenician queen kidnapped by Zeus will replace current architectural styles, according to an unnamed source from Bloomberg. Now the image of this mythical heroine is only on the two euro coins minted in Greece..
The colors of the new euros will also change slightly. The map of Europe, which is printed on the banknotes, will be amended due to the change in the composition of the European Union over the past 10 years. It is expected that the European Central Bank will issue new banknotes next year. The new design of the banknotes will be presented in November this year, and in May 2013 the five-euro banknotes with the image of Europe will already be printed. A little later, banks of Rostov and other cities of Russia will receive new banknotes.
Changes in the appearance of euro currency notes were not made in 2002, when it was introduced into circulation. Back in 2008, the ECB announced that a new design of banknotes would appear in 2011, but this did not happen. The agency points out that the appeal to ancient Greek myths should remind of the origin of Europe (it is named after this princess). However, the perception of the new image of the euro may be negatively affected by the fact that it was Greece in 2010 that the debt crisis of the euro zone began..
