Datatypes

Euro banknote serial number

ID eu_banknote

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Serial number printed on euro banknotes. Notes of the first series have one letter and eleven digits; notes of the Europa series have two letters and ten digits. The first letter shows the printing works, and all characters together form a simple checksum.

Categories
Finances and banking
Countries
European Union
Languages
English
python-stdnum
stdnum.eu.banknote
Quality
95/100 · missing: translation
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
DataPrep, python-stdnum

Regular expression

^[B-HJLMNPR-Z][A-Z0-9]\d{10}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
VA0436214792Real-world value published online
U71220515711Real-world value published online
VA04362147927 invalidOne character too many

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