Everything recorded about the Europa-series 5 euro banknote: 100 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).
How to read the table
It holds the 100 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 5 euro opened the Europa series on 2 May 2013. It was the first note to carry the portrait watermark and the first to show the reworked design by Reinhold Gerstetter, which makes its catalogue the starting point for everything that followed.
A first note, and one famous exception
Almost every Europa-series banknote carries the signature of Mario Draghi or Christine Lagarde. The extract records one anomaly for this denomination: a Belgian run catalogued with the Trichet signature, annotated in the source as three known examples. It is preserved here exactly as the catalogue states it, as a recorded entry and not as an ECB fact.
Everything else in the table follows the expected pattern. Draghi rows belong to the 2013 launch and the years that followed; Lagarde rows begin after her appointment in November 2019.
The widest sheet of the series
The Europa 5 euro is printed sixty to a sheet, ten rows of six, the same layout the first-series 5 euro used. Its position codes run from A1 to J6 and the extract records several numbering directions across that grid.
Ten printing works appear here. The letter that opens the production code now matches the letter that opens the serial number for the same works, which is the clearest practical difference between reading a Europa note and reading a first-series one.
Where the identification code sits on the 5 euro
The 5 euro set the pattern the rest of the series follows. Read this table first and the other five become quicker.
