New €5 note launched

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Publication Date 03/05/2013
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European Central Bank director Mario Draghi handed out signed copies of the new €5 bank note on 2 May 2013 to a group of ‘euro children’ who have grown up only knowing the euro.

The ECB chief unveiled the new note in the Slovak capital, Bratislava. It marks the official launch of a second-generation bill with new security features aimed to help stamp out counterfeiting.

The old-€5 notes will continue to circulate with the new series for the next several months. The ECB expects the new generation note to outnumber the old by autumn.

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ESO: Background information: Cyrillic alphabet makes first appearance on euro notes http://www.europeansources.info/record/cyrillic-alphabet-makes-first-appearance-on-euro-notes/
ECB: Euro Banknotes http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/
ECB: Euro Banknotes: Key fact about the €5 banknote http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/Euro-banknotes/KEY-FACTS-ABOUT-THE-5-BANKNOTE
ECB: Europa series of euro banknotes http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/europa/html/index.en.html

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