Pooling system banknotes

airis · Post by **airis** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 3:01 pm

2 % of the notes entered from Luxembourg in January 2003 are Finnish.

I think most of them are 100 € notes printed by Finnish Setec for Luxembourg.
In another thread it was mentioned that these notes are entered especially from Belgium and the Netherlands too. So maybe 100 € note with serial starting with L1 (printing year 2002) can be considered as a Luxemburgian. Anyway these are pooling system banknotes.

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 4:12 pm

Yeah!
I noticed this too.
Lately I get a lot of Finnish 100euro notes!
About 20% of my 100euro notes.
Not that I get that many of them, but it's really striking how much Finnish L1 notes are between them!

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 7:49 pm

The first 100€ I ever held in my hands (this summer) had a L1 serial ...
[I thought it was genuine Finnish ... but it could also have been a pooling note]

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Mon Jan 20, 2003 7:59 pm

Those L1 notes are usually printed by D001
So they're really Finnish

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 3:24 pm

Skylimit wrote:The first 100€ I ever held in my hands (this summer) had a L1 serial ...
[I thought it was genuine Finnish ... but it could also have been a pooling note]

It is a "pooling note", because Luxembourg ordered their notes in the pre-2002 phase in the Netherlands (except the EUR-10 notes they got from Bundesruckerei). But in 2002, they let Setec print their 100€ notes in the pooling system.

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 4:06 am

Yeah, I got stacks of crisp 100 euro L1s a few days ago. ( a few days before the robbery).

bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 6:56 pm

I've found some fresh new 20E Spanish M009 V-notes in Belgium.

nodisch18 · Post by **nodisch18** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 8:57 am

Back in Juli 2002 i got 2 fresh Spanish 50 euro-notes from the ATM in eindhoven The Netherlands

V1234XXXX686 2002 50 2002-07-07 20:54:13 Eindhoven 5612 KW M010
V1234XXXX677 2002 50 2002-07-07 20:54:52 Eindhoven 5612 KW M010

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:44 pm

bhoeyb wrote:I've found some fresh new 20E Spanish M009 V-notes in Belgium.

Yep!
Today I also got a very new 20E M009 note from Spain!

byrnefm · Post by **byrnefm** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:05 am

Curious - why have the Spanish notes been pooled all over Europe? Did they really overestimate their needs of €20s and €50s?

bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 12:42 pm

byrnefm wrote:Curious Did they really overestimate their needs of €20s and €50s?

Probably, they did ...

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Sat Mar 08, 2003 6:20 pm

byrnefm wrote:Curious - why have the Spanish notes been pooled all over Europe? Did they really overestimate their needs of €20s and €50s?

That's the very nature of the decentralized pooling systems. Only a few of the 12 NCB's are responsible for a given denomination, give printing orders to printers of their choice and distribute the notes to those NCB's across EuroLand which are in need of this denomination.

Spain is responsible in 2002 and 2003 for EUR20 notes, together with France, Finland and Italy in 2002 and Germany, France, The Netherlands and Potugal in 2003. Spain is also resonsible for EUR50 notes, together with Belgium and The Netherlands in 2002 and Belgium, Italy and The Netherlands in 2003.

So, it looks as if those many spanisch EUR20 notes appearing in Belgium were printed in 2002. They might even be printed earlier, for the initial production, and have been kept in the reserve, but who knows?

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:13 am

There has been a surge of new V 20s in our teller drawers from customer deposits. Ther has also been a surge of Z 50s but they aren't from the pooling system, in fact theres only a few that are pooling while the crisp, consecutive ones are all T001.

airis · Post by **airis** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 10:05 am

This is from an old thread:

Olivier wrote:I think at the beginning, the banks used their "national" funds. After the summer, there will be millions of notes in the south of Europe (Europeans usually go to the south for the vacations). A logisitic program has already been decided by the european central bank to bring back some bills to the north.

The BIG MIX is coming!

Can this also be a reason, why there are so many Spanish pooling notes ?

bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 8:38 pm

Last weekend, I've found the first uncirculated 20 E Spanish V-notes printed by M008* near my place

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