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Re: Slovakia Banknotes
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:42 pm
by evaldas1982
westwind wrote:Oh. thank you so much for an informative answer!

All first Euro banknotes were brought in from Germany, as it was told on Lithuanian TV news
Elmo, thanks for great answer!

Re: Slovakia Banknotes
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:46 pm
by westwind
I heard it too, however it seems all new "lithuanian"

are Spanish and

are Dutch
Re: Slovakia Banknotes
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:05 pm
by negative
westwind wrote:I heard it too, however it seems all new "lithuanian"

are Spanish and

are Dutch
in Kaunas ATM's I get

S / Italian

Re: Slovakia Banknotes
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:52 pm
by Dioniz
Just before new

2014 came out I've read in Slovenian news site that our notes are delivered from French National Bank. Now we only have

S/S notes.
It seems that with the new Europa notes serial first letter, except indicating printer, doesn't really have any meaning at all.
Re: Slovakia Banknotes
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 8:25 am
by psv97
Elmo wrote:With the Europa series it is much more difficult if not outright impossible to find out for which country a banknote has been printed, because the letter in the serial number now represents the printer where the banknote has been printed, and not the country for which it has been printed. According to the
ECB, among others Germany and the Joint European Tender (JET) countries (CY, EE, LU, MT, NL, SI, SK, FI) were responsible for the production of the first Europa

. Since these countries are known for outsourcing the production of their banknotes, the only way to find out which banknotes are German or from a JET country is to obtain a brand new bundle with the original wrapper with the country code on it. It appears that the Europa

with serial numbers starting with EA were wrapped in JET wrappers, and Europa

with serial numbers starting with EB, PA and XA were wrapped in German wrappers. This means that your EB

is actually a German

, and not a Slovak one. Only an EA

might be a Slovak one, but then again, it might be Cypriot, Estonian, Maltese, Dutch, etc., etc. as well.
Doesn't letter "E" stands for Oberthur Fiduciaire?