EuroBillTracker

When I went to my usual bank on Monday, I received the bill you can see below. It bears all security features and asking the cassier, he told me the note was real and even the machines in the banks I visited did not reveal this note as a fake. However, I was not able to enter in into the system as both - the C-shortcode and the K-serial - are not accepted. Can you please fix it??

As it's serial number starts with K it has to be swedish. However, Sweden did not join the Eur nor did they print notes. I did some research on the web and found that Tumba Bruk AB did 'test prints' of Euro notes some years ago (see literature below). I assume these test-prints have been more than tests. There was a Euro referendum in sweden which ended in swedish people abandoning the euro after some politician was killed, if I remember correctly. So I think Sweden sat on a stack of paper as the government let Tumba Bruk print some notes as the Referendum seemed to be just a formal thing before that incident. Maybe they contacted the ECB in autumn 2009 which took the notes than and brought them into circulation as there was a high request for notes that days.

Remember that England also printed some notes bearing the H-shortcode. The new thing is, that we now have notes printed for a country that never joined the Euro. Well I think I'll gonna keep that note. Has anybody else found something like that??
Serial:

(I have an uncensored verison too, but I fear faked hits as soon as it is possible to enter it)
Printer:


Literature:
Swedish test production is mentionned here:
http://www.sedelmynt.se/eur/english.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Official stating of the 'test' production: See page 19 right column 'Euro banknotes'
http://www.riksbank.com/upload/Dokument ... rt5eng.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hmm; what date do we have today?

And why you didn't wait for the first "WHAT THE F***?" post to get some laughs.

Good job, a funny April fish!

Yeah good photoshop job, you can't see a thing.

I bet it was a X-Bill, very easy to turn it into a K

The scans look very real, well done there!

Too bad the joke didn't have the time to unfold itself. It would have been nice to see some reactions to this post.

Something no-one noticed yet (or didn't feel like posting it) is that it would be possible to fake the hit if he enters it, because he only censored the numbers which are visible on EBT: Kxxxx1234xxx

BaliBennie wrote:Too bad the joke didn't have the time to unfold itself. It would have been nice to see some reactions to this post.

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh vermeer....

some people are going for laughing about a joke into the basement...

VERY GOOD JOB doiknow!!!!!

Thanks for your positive comments. I want to add some things nobody (seemed) to realise(d) up to now:
There is an uncensored version on the webspace. Just remove the '_censored' part from the URL and you will see the whole faked serial which fits the necessary criteria...
As Fons already realised the 'censoring' was just applied in that way to make it in EBT matters totally ridicoulus.
I have to credit Jalos for providing an excellent scan of a netherlandic G-shortcode which became a C some days ago (And angelino for linking it to the english forum)

The note itself once was italian as the google search on '20 euro note' displays this as 4th and 5th hit - I than just cut the 1 out of the serials end and transferred it to the beginning to make a K out of that copied 1...
http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_image ... 0euro2.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(maybe a thing to add to the public serials section...)

What a disappointment.