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20 Euros
| Issuer | Europäische Zentralbank (European Central Bank) |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 20 Euros (20 EUR) |
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| Obverse lettering | AA000000 50,00 DM=25,57 Euro € 20,00 Euro=39,12 DM 20EURO EYPΩ € 20 20 20 |
| Reverse description | Central vignette shows a blue map of Europe surrounded by a ring of twelve gold stars, flanked by twelve national flags of the founding Eurozone member states arranged in three rows. Denomination and currency inscriptions appear at lower right. Copyright notice of the Europäisches Währungsinstitut (1997) and Europäische Zentralbank (1998) runs vertically along the left margin. |
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The European Central Bank was established in June 1998, and the euro banknote series was not issued for circulation until January 2002 — meaning any note dated 1998 reflects the institutional founding year printed on the statute of the ECB, not an actual issue date. The notes of the first series carry a 2002 release regardless of what appears in the catalog record. A 1998-dated 20 euro in paper form almost certainly refers to a specimen, a pre-production proof, or a catalog misattribution worth investigating before pricing.