Specification
The euro banknotes are pure cotton fibre, which improves their durability as well as making the banknotes have a distinctive feel.
| Image | Value | Dimensions (millimetres) |
Main Colour | Design | Printer code position | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obverse | Reverse | Architecture | Century | ||||||
| €5 | 120 × 62 | Grey | Classical | < 5th | Left image edge | ||||
| €10 | 127 × 67 | Red | Romanesque | 11–12th | 8 o'clock star | ||||
| €20 | 133 × 72 | Blue | Gothic | 12–14th | 9 o'clock star | ||||
| €50 | 140 × 77 | Orange | Renaissance | 15–16th | Right image edge | ||||
| €100 | 147 × 82 | Green | Baroque & Rococo | 17–18th | Right of 9 o'clock star | ||||
| €200 | 153 × 82 | Yellow | Art Nouveau | 19–20th | Above 7 o'clock star | ||||
| €500 | 160 × 82 | Purple | Modern 20th century | 20–21st | 9 o'clock star | ||||
The Azores, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Madeira, Martinique, Réunion, and the Canary Islands, overseas territories of the eurozone member states are under the map in separate boxes, because they use the euro. Cyprus and Malta, although they are in the eurozone since 2008, they are not shown, because they only joined the European Union in 2004 and the map does not stretch that far east, with Malta being too small to be depicted, with the minimum size for depiction being 400 km2.
The first reprints of the note use Willem Duisenberg's signature, who was the first president of the European Central Bank, and has since been replaced by Jean-Claude Trichet, the second president of the ECB in 2003. The reprints of the banknote printed after 2003 use Jean-Claude Trichet's signature. On 1 November 2011, Mario Draghi assumed the presidency of the European Central Bank. Banknotes bearing his signature appeared in circulation in March 2012.
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