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Siemens Nixdorf Musterbanknote 10
| Issuer | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Musterbanknote (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | Test note produced by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG for banknote-handling equipment calibration. The left portion of the note is plain white, bearing the Siemens Nixdorf corporate logo in the upper left corner and the issuer name at the lower left. The central and right fields are filled with a fine guilloche underprint in blue-grey tones, with the numeral '10' in large bold type at lower centre, the trilingual inscription 'MUSTERBANKNOTE / TEST NOTE / SPECIMEN' printed vertically in the central field, and a dark blue vertical band at the right margin carrying the repeated text 'MUSTERBANKNOTE 10' alongside an order number. |
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| Obverse lettering | MUSTERBANKNOTE TEST NOTE SPECIMEN Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG |
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Siemens Nixdorf produced this test note in-house to calibrate and validate its automated banknote processing and ATM hardware — it was never issued by any monetary authority and holds no face value. The company, formed from the 1990 merger of Siemens Data Systems and Nixdorf Computer AG, was at the time a significant supplier of cash-handling equipment to European banks navigating the transition toward machine-readable currencies and, later, euro-era processing standards.
The "Musterbanknote" designation simply means specimen or sample note. Numbered series in this range were used internally and distributed to banking clients for machine-testing purposes, which means survival rates depend almost entirely on whether the recipient bothered to keep one after the equipment was decommissioned.