Banknote Serial.checker

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The training highlights the security features on our notes, which you can use to check your notes are genuine. We also offer advice and a short test to check your understanding. It takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.

We cannot reimburse you for counterfeit banknotes. If you suspect that you have a counterfeit banknote, please take it to your nearest police station. The police should fill out an NCO-1 form and provide you with a receipt and incident number. The suspect notes will be sent to the National Crime Agency and if counterfeit to the Bank of England for further examination.

Counterfeiting directly funds organised crime. It hurts the UK economy by creating losses for businesses, which ultimately affects the cost of things that we buy. It also affects the pocket of anyone who receives a counterfeit note, as the notes are worthless. If you report counterfeiting to the police, you are helping with investigations and alerting them to a problem in their area. This means they can take action to protect your community.

Not all denominations of Australian banknotes are produced every year. Instead, they are printed based on demand for new banknotes to replace those no longer fit for circulation. The information below details the serial number ranges for those banknotes printed each year. This information does not account for the serial numbers used on banknotes that are destroyed and therefore not issued.

Some of the banknote prefix and serial number information has been compiled from incomplete records, and it is possible that banknotes have been issued with serial numbers outside of those published in the above tables. While every effort has been made by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to ensure the information is correct, the RBA accepts no liability for the accuracy or completeness of the information, nor any responsibility for financial loss or damage resulting from use of the information. The RBA recommends that users exercise care and judgement when using the information.

When we release a new banknote, we hold back some of the first printed notes with especially low or symbolic serial numbers. We donate these to people and institutions that were involved in the development of the note or who traditionally receive a note when a new series is issued.

Following the introduction of the 10 note featuring Jane Austen in September 2017, we donated the tenner with the serial number AA01 001817 to Winchester Cathedral, marking the year when Austen was buried there.

And following the introduction of the 20 note featuring the artist JMW Turner in February 2020, we donated the 20 note with the serial number AA01 001839 to the National Gallery, where The Fighting Temeraire is exhibited, marking the year that Turner painted this masterpiece.

On the front of both series of euro banknotes, windows and doorways are shown. They symbolise the European spirit of openness and cooperation. The bridges on the back symbolise communication between the people of Europe and between Europe and the rest of the world.

Like the first series, the new Europa series banknotes show architectural styles from various periods in Europe's history, but do not show any actual existing monuments or bridges. The styles are as follows:

A geographical representation of Europe is shown on the back of both series of euro banknotes. The Europa series has a revised map of Europe, including Malta and Cyprus. The tiny boxes near the bottom of the banknote show the Canary Islands and some overseas territories of France where the euro is also used. Very small islands are not shown on the banknotes because they cannot be accurately reproduced using high-volume offset printing.

The new polymer notes caused quite a stir, with collectors rushing to secure the notes with the lowest serial number. But what happened to the very first notes of each denomination?

Whilst collectors were on the hunt for polymer 5 banknotes with low serial numbers when they first entered circulation in 2016, the very first ones never actually made it into circulation.

The Bank of England always hold back some of the notes with the earliest serial numbers, donating them to people or institutions that were involved in the development of the note, or who traditionally receive a note when a new series is issued.

As is tradition, Queen Elizabeth II received the very first polymer 50 note printed with the serial number AA01 000001, however AA01 000010 was donated to the Turing family in honour of Alan Turing featuring on the reverse of the 50 note.

I collected one of each AA 01 through to AA 60 in 5 notes took me quite a while to find an AA 56 and an AA 28 that I really wanted as my birthday is April 28th , guessing the collection is only worth face value though .

Banknotes of the euro, the common currency of the eurozone (euro area members), have been in circulation since the first series (also called ES1) was issued in 2002. They are issued by the national central banks of the Eurosystem or the European Central Bank.[1] The euro was established in 1999, but "for the first three years it was an invisible currency, used for accounting purposes only, e.g. in electronic payments".[2] In 2002, notes and coins began to circulate. The euro rapidly took over from the former national currencies and slowly expanded around the European Union.

The euro came into existence on 1 January 1999.[2] The euro's creation had been a goal of the European Union (EU) and its predecessors since the 1960s.[2] The Maastricht Treaty entered into force in 1993 with the goal of creating economic and monetary union by 1999 for all EU states except the UK and Denmark (though Denmark has a policy of a fixed exchange rate with the euro).[9]

Though the currency was born virtually in 1999,[2] notes and coins did not begin to circulate until 2002.[2] The euro rapidly took over from the former national currencies and slowly expanded around the growing EU.[2] In 2009, the Lisbon Treaty formalised the euro's political authority, the Eurogroup, alongside the European Central Bank.[10]

All the notes of the initial series of euro notes bear the European flag, a map of the continent on the reverse, the name "euro" in both Latin and Greek script (EURO / ΕΥΡΩ) and the signature of a president of the ECB, depending on when the banknote was printed.[17][18] The 12 stars from the flag are also incorporated into every note.[17][18]

The notes also carry the acronyms of the name of the European Central Bank in five linguistic variants, covering all official languages of the EU in 2002 (the time of the banknote introduction), and now 19 out of 24 official languages of the EU27, in the following order:[17]

The initial designs for the banknotes were chosen from 44 proposals in a design competition, launched by the Council of the European Monetary Institute (EMI) on 12 February 1996.[47] The winning entry, created by Robert Kalina from the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, was selected on 3 December 1996.[47]

In the first and Europa series, the Azores, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Madeira, alba, Runion, and the Canary Islands, overseas territories of the eurozone member states, which also use the euro, were shown under the map in separate boxes. Cyprus and Malta were not shown on the first series because they were not in the EU in 2002, when the banknotes were issued, even though they joined the eurozone in 2008. The map did not stretch as far east as Cyprus, while Malta was too small to be depicted.[18] Both Cyprus and Malta are however depicted on the Europa series note.[4]

The following table depicts the design characteristics of the second series of euro banknotes (ES2), also known as the Europa series, after the holographic depiction of the mythological Europa common to these banknotes.[49]

The Europa series banknotes, similarly to the first series, bear the European flag, a map of the continent on the reverse and the signature of Mario Draghi, since 1 November 2011 president of the ECB. The 12 stars from the flag are also incorporated into the notes.[17][18] On 4 May 2016 the European Central Bank decided not to issue a 500 euro banknote for the Europa series.[5]

The design for the 50, 100 and 200 euro notes features the acronyms of the name of the European Central Bank in ten linguistic variants, covering all official languages of the European Union, in the following order:[4]

In December 2021, the ECB announced plans to redesign euro banknotes by 2024. A theme advisory group, made up of one member from each euro area country, was selected to submit theme proposals to the ECB. The proposals will be voted on by the public; a design competition will also be held.[69] In 2023, the ECB asked the public to vote on a theme for the new design.[70]

Due to the great number of historic bridges, arches, and gateways throughout the European continent, all the structures represented on the notes are entirely stylized illustrations of the relevant architectural styles, designed to evoke the landmarks within the European Union,[17] representing various European ages and styles.[17] For example, the 5 euro note has a generic rendition of Classical architecture,[17] the 10 euro note of Romanesque architecture,[17] the 20 euro note of Gothic architecture,[17] the 50 euro note of the Renaissance,[17] the 100 euro note of Baroque and Rococo,[17] the 200 euro note of Art Nouveau[17] and the 500 euro note of modern architecture.[17] The initial designs by Robert Kalina were of actual bridges, including the Rialto Bridge in Venice and the Pont de Neuilly in Paris, and were subsequently rendered more generic.[71] In 2011, Dutch artist Robin Stam and the town of Spijkenisse in the Netherlands built seven bridges of colored concrete after the designs on the seven euro banknotes.[72][73][74][75]

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