BANKNOTES AND COINS

Euro Banknotes and Coins

• Banknotes
  • Design and technical features
  • Security measures
    • Security measures
    • Low-value banknotes (231 KB)
    • High-value banknotes (228 KB)
    • Test performed on authentication devices
  • Reproduction rules
  • Defective and mutilated banknote
  • Bancknotes in euros documentation
  • Statistics. Boletín Estadístico, table 16 chapter 7 (40,8 KB)
  • Basic guidelines
• Coins
  • Design and technical features
  • Security features
  • Reproduction rules
  • Mutilated and defective coins
  • Euro coins of Non-Euro Area Countries
  • Commemorative coins and collectors coins
  • Legal tender status of coins
  • Documentation
  • Statistics. Boletín Estadístico, table 17 chapter 7 (40,5 KB)
  • Basic guidelines
• Cash cycle
  • Production and issue of euro banknotes and coins
  • Cash handling. Counting, clasification and destruction
  • The Banco de España's role in the cash cycle
  • Outline of the cash cycle (591 KB)
• Basic Guidelines
  • Extracts from the Treaty establishing the European Community. Title VII (ex Title VI) - Economic and monetary policy (103 KB)
  • Ley Orgánica 10/1998, de 17 de diciembre, complementaria de la Ley sobre introducción del euro (17,1 KB)
  • Ley 46/1998, de 17 de diciembre, sobre introducción del euro (81,5 KB)
  • Council Regulation (EC) No 974/98 of 3 may 1998 on the introduction of the euro (49,6 KB)
• The fight against counterfeiting
  • Overview
  • The National Analysis Centre (NAC) and the Coin National Analysis Centre (CNAC)
  • Basic guidelines

Banknote re-issuance

• Framework for banknote recycling
• Recycling in professional centres
• List of professional centres for the euro banknotes recycling (37,5 KB) (in Spanish)
• Test performed on banknote handling machines
• Data of credit institutions and other professional cash handlers
• Other links

Peseta Banknotes and Coins

• Exchange transaction of euros
  • Irrevocable conversion rates
  • Branches on Banco de España
  • Opening hours, identification and exchage period
  • Banknotes and coins eligible for exchange
  • Exchange transaction of euros for pesetas from abroad
• Reproduction rules
• The final issues
• The Royal Mint Museum
• Statistics
  • Notes statistics (39,5 KB)
  • Coins statistics (39,8 KB)
• The peseta (533 KB) (in Spanish)

Additional Information

• What's new
  • Children´s corner
  • From 1 January 2008 the Republic of Cyprus will issue euro coins (1,2 MB)
  • From 1 January 2008 the Republic of Malta will issue euro coins (1,2 MB)
• The euro: banknotes, coins and more
• Banco de España and ECB Press Releases
• FAQs

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