EuroBillTracker

Lowest: X0x002148xxx (guess the second digit )
Highest: Z9x504036xxx

Lowest: X000019*****
Highest: Z831********

ok...

My highest: N69014xxxxxx
My lowest : Y0001473xxxx

I had my first austian with this N69xxxxxx nr. in Januari..

I was surprised because in Holland I received low serialnrs from the ATM on Januari 2

I wished I was EBTracker in Januari: I had the most beautifull (low) nrs in Januari and never registred them on EBT

Some other serials from Austria I have are starting with 6 or 4

I also have seen some German banknotes with one of the nrs in ?:extra black ink[/b]

Can someone explain this to me?

hebben-en-houden wrote:I also have seen some German banknotes with one of the nrs in extra black ink

I have made this observation, too.

I have 788 X-notes, and not always but quite often I write into the comment if I find something "noteworthy" about the notes. Altogether, I have registered 45 of these 788 notes with the remark that some digits are printed "fett" [German for "bold“]:

25 of printer P (Giesecke&Devrient) [19 x 5EUR and 6 x 20EUR] and
20 of printer R (Bundesdruckerei) [13 x 10EUR and 7 x 50EUR].

It is interesting that 20 of the P-notes have the 6th place of the serial number printed bold, and mostly only one or two digits are bold.

On the other hand, R-notes have the 6th place printed bold only on 16 notes (12 of them are in two consecutive series of serial numbers; the P-notes are all from non-consecutive serial numbers), and sometimes 1, 2, 3, or even more digits in various places are bold.

That could mean: printer P has a much more "focussed" bold-printing-problem, while printer R has a smaller, but wider ranging problem with bold-printing.

I wonder, whether not only X- but also other NCBs' notes printed by P have this problem. It is known that Giesecke&Devrient printed notes for 11 NCB's, not only for X = Bundesbank.

Maybe the bold printing problems depend on the production charge. All my bold P-notes have the code P001, P002, P003 or P004, but my database is not yet big enough to tell anything reliable. Unfortunately, most other users don't insert their notes with such kind of comment, at least not into my database .

Thomas

I just entered 12 X notes from Giesecke&Devrient, only one 5 € note has bold digits, printer code is P003F4. I can confirm that there are irregular qualities of serial number printing. It seemed to be much better with the old Deutschmark bills. Probably they had to print the first editions in a hurry, which may explain the changing quality.

Thanks Tomas, Thanx Donald for the reply!

I was thinking that it was a code from the german banks for banknotes made for Luxemburg or Switzerland...

My lowest serial number is X00024#2###4 20Eur

My highest is N66002#2###1 5Eur

Lowest: P00164x74xxx €10

Highest is Z44709x97xxx €20

I just found out that among my Belgian bills, every denomination has its own series. All fivers start with Z1, 10s with Z2, 20s with Z4 or Z5, 50s with Z6. That fits with the observation of the highest number of someone being a Z9 on a 500 bill. It would probably mean that Z3 are 10s as well, Z7 100, Z8 250. So the Belgian serial number has little to do with age, you would have to look beyond the first digit, for each bill denomination separately.

Renate

RAW wrote:I just found out that among my Belgian bills, every denomination has its own series. All fivers start with Z1, 10s with Z2, 20s with Z4 or Z5, 50s with Z6. That fits with the observation of the highest number of someone being a Z9 on a 500 bill.

Interesting observation!!

Maybe one of the moderators can send you a 500,- euro bill to see if your theory is right

Not only among Belgian bills, but also among Irish and Portuguese bills every denomination has its own beginning number.

In Portugal:
M1****** is 5 Eur
M2******** is 10 Eur
M3********* is 20 Eur
M4********* is 50 Eur

I have 133 M- Notes
Lowest-M1000190****
Highest- MM403509****

Hi,

My lowest is: V0060675****
My highest is: N5901505****

In Ireland, similar to Portugal, €5's start with T1, €10's with T2, €20 with T3, etc., so the range of notes isn't high except with foreign euro bills.

HNL wrote:Nop, not impossible, there is an other site like eurobilltracker and Thomas is the webmaster of it (see other discussions). Total entered notes on that site: about 11.000 .

12244 at the latest count (not counting the handful of double/triple hits) .

Thomas