Your Euro note

Is your Euro note genuine?

Euro notes are designed to be one of the most difficult currencies to forge, they have a number of notable features which aim to discourage counterfeiting. Genuine Euro notes have a number of features including:

Holograms, which are plainly visible on the right hand side of notes up to €20, and in a circular shape on the right of notes of €50 and higher.
Coloured ink – the EU flag in the top-left should appear green and orange when held under UV light.
The ‘EURION’ constellation – the dots on the front face of the €10 note are of a deliberate design which means some photocopiers will refuse to copy it .
Watermarks – not only the traditional one on the left, but also a ‘digital one’ embedded onto the print of the page, programs such as Photoshop are programmed to refuse. There are also marks that show up only under infrared light.
Security thread – Holding notes up to the light, you should see a ‘thread’ interwoven into the note, down the middle of the note.
Magnetic ink – Notes like the €20 are printed with magnetic ink in some parts (such as one of the church windows).
Micro-printing – The €5 note features a bar on which the word EΥΡΩ appears. That’s actually the words ‘EΥΡΩ’ and ‘EURO’ written in very small letters.
Bar code – Holding the note up to the light you will see a barcode to the right of the watermark. The width of the codes on this indicates the note.
Checksum – The serial number of each note is preceded by a letter. If you

convert this letter to its ASCII equivalent and add all the digits together, the number will be divisible by 9.
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