Everything recorded about the Europa-series 100 euro banknote: 61 documented runs, each with its printing works, signature, plate, sheet position, rarity grade and GEM-UNC quotation. Search or filter the table, then read the notes below it.
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Rarity on the Cartamoneta catalogue scale: C3 extremely common, C2 very common, C common, NC not common, then R to R5. Italic grades come from the catalogue itself and mark the runs it does not price. Quotations are for gem uncirculated banknotes (GEM-UNC).
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Rarity uses the scale printed in the Cartamoneta catalogue, from C3 (extremely common) up to R5 (of the highest rarity). It is derived from how far a run sits above the ordinary level for this denomination, because the ratio between face value and catalogue reference is not comparable across denominations. Where the catalogue supplies its own grade instead of a price, that grade is shown in italics and no quotation appears.
Every quotation is for a gem uncirculated banknote — GEM-UNC, the top of the grading scale — and for no other condition. It is the Cartamoneta.com reference: the catalogue figure with the published mark-up for this denomination, rounded up to the next step. From a threshold upwards — €500 on the 5 euro, €750 on the 10, €1,000 on the 20, €1,500 on the 50, €1,750 on the 100 — the mark-up gives way to a 10% reduction, because high-value examples are placed by negotiation rather than at a premium; the 200 and 500 euro are never reduced. A circulated example is worth less, often much less. The figure is an indicative reference and not an offer, an appraisal or a statement about the condition of any particular banknote.
The Europa 100 euro entered circulation on 28 May 2019 with a change no other denomination in the series received: it was made shorter and its height was aligned with the 50 euro, so that it fits machines and wallets designed for the middle of the range.
A new size and a new hologram
Alongside the reduced format, the 100 and 200 euro introduced the satellite hologram: small euro symbols that move around the figure when the note is tilted. It is the only security feature in the series that appears on two denominations and nowhere else.
Because both notes arrived at the very end of the rollout, their production record is short. Seven printing works appear here, against eleven for the 50 euro.
A young catalogue
Five country associations and a handful of plate runs make this one of the quickest tables on the site to read in full. Draghi rows belong to the 2019 launch; Lagarde rows follow from her appointment in November of the same year.
Reference prices sit close together for the same reason: there has not yet been enough time, or enough variety of production, for wide differences to appear between one documented run and another.
Where the identification code sits on the 100 euro
A short catalogue that will grow. What is recorded here is the beginning of the denomination, not its final shape.
