---
id: "eu_banknote"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["finances"]
country: ["EU"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 95
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eu_banknote"
---

# Euro banknote serial number (`eu_banknote`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Finances and banking (finances)
- Countries: European Union (EU)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `VA0436214792` — Real-world value published online
- `U71220515711` — Real-world value published online
- `VA04362147927` (invalid example) — One character too many

## Mappings

- stdnum: `eu.banknote`

## Supported by tools

- `dataprep`
- `pythonstdnum`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes#Serial_number>
- other: <https://arthurdejong.org/python-stdnum/doc/2.2/stdnum.eu.banknote.html>
- other: <https://docs.dataprep.ai/user_guide/clean/clean_eu_banknote.html>

## Quality

Score 95/100. Missing: translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/eu_banknote.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/EU/finances/eu_banknote.yaml>