Who goes to the ATM machine, should not be surprised: as of now, the new bills of the second Generation could come. Three billion new 100 – and 200-Euro Notes to bring the banks under the people.
The new banknotes of the second Generation should be even harder to forge than their predecessors. Because the guardians of the European currency have equipped the freshly printed banknotes with new security features. With the issuance of the new notes in the Euro area, the second Generation of the Euro Banknotes in completely. The revised fives, tens, twenties and Fifties are already for some time in circulation. The 500-Euro note is no longer issued since the end of April.
“The manufacturer of ATMs or cash vaults were able to borrow the new Bank notes already for nine months for testing purposes, the technical change should run, therefore, smoothly”, stresses the Bundesbank Executive Board Johannes Beermann. Who hopes, when you withdraw money in the coming days immediately to the new Notes, could, however, be disappointed. The introduction of the 2.3 billion revised Hundreds and 700 million two hundreds is gradual. The old Notes will be gradually withdrawn from the Central banks from the market. The Euro banknotes of the first Generation remain valid.
A phase-out model: the 500-Euro Bills
Hologram as a security element
A new “satellite hologram is in the hundreds and Two-hundreds” on the front top right. Icons move when Tilting small Euro to the value. Additional Euro symbols there are in the emerald number. “These two security features make counterfeiting the new 100 – and 200-Euro banknotes even more difficult,” explains Beermann.
In the hundreds and Two-hundreds security features to use, already from the twenties and Fifties well-known: they also have a “portrait window”. If you hold the note against the light, the window becomes transparent and you can see a portrait of the Greek mythological figure Europa. The shiny number printed on the value 100 or 200 on the front panel changes color from emerald green to deep blue when you tilt the Banknote.
As safe as never before
Overall, the development for the new Europe have taken a series of more than ten years, says Harald Deinhammer, an expert in banknote research at the European Central Bank. So tamper-proof, such as the Euro, a different currency is hardly. Your hammer speaks of the “first bill we have ever produced”. According to information from the Deutsche Bundesbank six percent of the Euro-flowers in Germany accounted for in the last year, on the hundred and one percent to the two-hundreds. By far the most counterfeited Banknote was the Fifties.
In the case of counterfeiters especially popular: the 50-Euro note
Your hammer but you have to keep in mind: “The amount of counterfeit money is very consistent and consistently very, very low.” About 500,000 to 600,000 counterfeits were discovered per year – in relation to 22 billion genuine banknotes. “If you were to stack all the genuine Euro banknotes, they would have a tower of 2000 kilometers. If you do the same in the case of the fakes, so this tower is just enough 70 meters in height.” After 2017, the revised Version of the 50-Euro was a ticket issued, the number of the corresponding counterfeiting prompt.
Imaginary Buildings
The motives remain the retreaded Seem to by the way get. Buildings that do not exist in reality, are the future for Europe. The basic colors of the Bills will not change also. The hundreds is still Green, the Two C’s retains its mixture of Yellow and brown. The colors are a little stronger than the old banknotes. Easily the Format of the Notes has been changed to: hundreds and Two-hundreds of the new series are the same as the 50 Euro bill. The width of the Bank notes was, however, retained. Thus, the Money, the higher will be the nominal value still applies: The wider.
Also, the 500-Euro note is no longer issued, shall remain legal tender and unlimited exchangeable to be. With the abolition of the purple ticket, want to fight the guardian of the currency, the financing of Terrorism and undeclared work.
kle/ww (dpa, rtre)