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10 Euros
| Issuer | European Central Bank |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Romanesque arch vignette at centre-right rendered in intaglio in red-brown tones, with a large numeral '10' to the right and a ring of twelve EU stars at upper left. Issuer abbreviations in multiple scripts appear along the top margin, with bilingually inscribed denomination 'EURO / EYPO' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 © BCE ECB EZB EKT EKP 2002 10 EURO ΕΥΡΩ |
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Robert Kalina won the internal ECB design competition in 1996 with a deliberately anonymous brief: no real monuments, no identifiable people, no specific national geography. The bridges and windows on the euro series are composites — architecturally plausible but fictitious, a political necessity given that any real building would privilege one member state over others. For the 2002 launch, De La Rue, Giesecke & Devrient, and several national printers produced notes simultaneously, with each country's output identifiable by a letter prefix in the serial number.
The letter "X" denotes Germany, "Y" Greece — a detail that briefly mattered when euro-skeptic commentators tried to track which countries' notes were circulating where.