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5 Euro Test Note Siemens Nixdorf
| Issuer | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Test note produced by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG for use in ProCash Compact automated teller machines. The face carries the denomination '5 EURO' rendered in bold numerals, accompanied by the issuer's corporate name and the trilingual legend MUSTERBANKNOTE / TEST NOTE / SPÉCIMEN, clearly identifying the note's non-monetary purpose. A stylised guilloche-style underprint and geometric border elements are present in the background. |
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| Obverse lettering | SIEMENS NIXDORF MUSTERBANKNOTE TEST NOTE SPÉCIMEN 5 EURO 5 EURO SIEMENS NIXDORF INFORMATIONSSYSTEME AG 5 |
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Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG produced test notes like this one for calibrating and validating automated banknote-handling equipment — currency sorters, ATM validators, and counter mechanisms — before the euro entered circulation. The notes were never intended to pass through any monetary system; their value was purely mechanical, giving machine manufacturers and central bank technicians a standardized physical substrate to run against sensor arrays and rejection logic.
Siemens Nixdorf dissolved through merger in 1999, becoming Wincor Nixdorf. Test notes from this transitional period are consequently finite in number.