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100 Euro
| Issuer | European Monetary Institute / European Central Bank |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Size | 146 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a side-by-side comparison of the 200 Deutsche Mark banknote and the proposed 100 Euro banknote design, illustrating the conversion equivalence between the two currencies. The vignette serves as a transitional educational graphic linking the outgoing German currency to the incoming European common currency. The layout includes conversion rate notations and specimen overprints in place of serial elements. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1997 date places this as a specimen or trial note from the preparatory phase before euro banknotes entered circulation in January 2002 — the European Monetary Institute was dissolved and replaced by the ECB in June 1998, well before any public issuance. Notes bearing EMI attribution were never released to the public; they were produced strictly for testing printing standards, security feature evaluation, and central bank familiarization programs across the twelve adopting states.
The single listed security feature — watermark only — almost certainly reflects incomplete cataloging rather than the actual specification, as even early test printings incorporated multiple features under evaluation.