I had no idea each country got to have their own euro design. That’s cool as hell.
US did this with state quarters in late 90s. These customized euros arrived early 2000s. Perhaps inspired? I’m not sure.

I think it was more like We had national currencies so let’s at least keep national backsides of coins.

The paper money is the same btw

let’s at least keep national backsides

Is a much more interesting but wholly unrelated sentence.