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10 Euro - Plata Plomo Specimen
| Issuer | Eurozone |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 10 Euros |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a stylised violet-on-purple silhouette skyline of Paris set against a guilloche wave underprint, with clearly identifiable outlines of the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Sacré-Cœur and a modern high-rise district to the left. The numeral "10" appears in white at the upper left, a circle of faint EU stars is printed on the pale right panel, and the legend "SPECIMEN" is set in large bold type at lower left with "PLATA PLOMO" in two-colour bold type at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 SPECIMEN PLATA PLOMO |
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| Comments |
The "Plata Plomo" specimen is not an official ECB issue. The phrase — Spanish slang with narco-political overtones, roughly "silver or lead," the ultimatum attributed to Pablo Escobar — marks this as a novelty or fantasy piece produced outside any central bank authority. The Euro did not enter circulation until January 2002; a 2001-dated Euro note of any kind warrants immediate scrutiny, and this one does not survive it.
No legitimate specimen Euro from this period carries Spanish-language branding of this type.