Look whose face is on the Greek drachma

derwanderer says:

For those asking for the origins/sources of this (fictional, for the time being) banknote: It was just an exercise in creative graphism, by greek artist Pavlos Vatikiotis and has been created/shown back in late 2012. The denominations were following the defunkt (original) drachmas, with the addition “new”. The idea was to propose proeminent modern Greeks from the arts and sciences with international reputation, combined with iconic institutions connected with them: Marxian philosopher Cornelius Castoriades with the Athens University, actress and politician Melina Merkouri with the new Acropolis Museum, Nobel Prize winner poet Odysseus Elytis and his beloved aegean islands, Maria Callas and the Odeon of Herod Atticus, venue of one of her first major triumphs during her short greek carrer and of her first comeback recital after international stardom, painter and Yannis Moralis (whoose international reputation is indeed very thin) and the (yet to open, after loooooong delays) National Museum of Contemporary art and, finaly, Dr Papanikolaou, inventor of the breast cancer prevention PAP-test and the Athens Aeginitio Hospital. More on this (oh! not so fictional any more) project can be found here: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/04/05/a-new-artistic-greek-drachma/
here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/8577425/New-drachma-proposal-B
and on the artist’s page: http://pavlosvatikiotis.blogspot.gr/p/new-drachma-design-proposal.html

Of course this was a personnal and entirely hypothetical project, no one knows for sure neither if Greece will finally exit the eurozone (athough now this seems to be the most probable scenario) nor what/who will be depicted on its new currency,