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Euro Test Note – 5 Florijn – Joh. Enschede
| Issuer | Joh. Enschedé Security Printing B.V., Haarlem |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Printer | Royal Joh. Enschedé (Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Johan Enschede en Zonen), Haarlem, Netherlands (1703-date) |
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| Reverse description | Reverse in yellow, grey, and olive tones with VIJF FLORIJN at upper left and a large central numeral '5' in intaglio. A serial number appears twice, with colour-register test blocks, dot-matrix patterns, a fine-line intaglio guilloche vignette at lower left, the Joh. Enschedé printer's cartouche at right, and a green numeral '000' in the lower-right corner. |
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| Protection type | Holographic foil, Microtext, Security thread |
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Produced by Enschedé in 1998 as an internal demonstration piece ahead of the euro's 1999 introduction, the "5 Florijn" was never a proposed currency denomination — the name was a deliberate fiction, chosen to showcase the firm's security printing capabilities without encroaching on actual euro design specifications still under ECB embargo. Enschedé had been printing Dutch guilder notes since the eighteenth century and used this note to pitch its technical range to potential clients during the transition period, when central banks across the continent were evaluating printers.
The holographic foil, microtext, and embedded thread were live demonstrations of production capability, not decorative choices. Enschedé lost the euro contract to the national central banks printing within the Eurosystem — this note is a relic of that competitive moment.