Everything recorded about the Europa-series 20 euro banknote: 192 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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It holds the 192 records the cleaned extract keeps for this denomination. Twenty rows load at a time; the search box and the filters always run over the whole list, so a match is found first and the rows around it are loaded afterwards.
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 20 euro, issued on 25 November 2015, was the note that introduced the portrait window: hold it to the light and the transparent panel near the top of the hologram shows Europa’s face from both sides. Every later denomination in the series inherited it.
The denomination that changed the series
The portrait window was the first genuinely new security feature of the Europa series rather than an improved version of an existing one. It is also the reason the 20 euro is the note most often used to demonstrate the series in teaching material and bank leaflets.
None of that appears in the catalogue columns, which record production rather than design. It matters here because it explains why this denomination was reprinted so consistently after 2015.
Twelve works, two signatures
The extract records twelve printing works and both Draghi and Lagarde signatures. The country associations are fewer than in the first series, which reflects how the Europa scheme assigns one letter per works rather than maintaining separate national and printer alphabets.
Sheet layouts are stable for this denomination: 54 notes, nine rows of six, with A1 to I6 positions and several documented numbering directions.
Where the identification code sits on the 20 euro
A note worth checking against the light before checking against the table.
