Ruibai
.. I must admit that I am still puzzled about what makes certain euro notes more rare - for the one in this post, …A quick search for ‘banknotes rarity’ and ‘rare euro banknotes’ in the Forum provided no clear results while in DuckDuckGo it led me to a basic article about rare euro notes
People writing on the blogs at EuroBillTracker seem as confused as I, so, could anyone provide a link to a place (preferably in English) where these tables or similar are easily explained?
I agree that it can be confusing & I regret the fact that many social media sites/articles (like the MIRROR which you link) tend to sensationalize & make outrageous claims of notes being RARE such as
“Today, there are 5 euro bills being sold on eBay for more than €1,000 while one current sale reached €6,500 in bids.” showing a well circulated 5 Euro note with 3 fives in the serial number! The only statement that made sense was, “For instance, notes with printer code H (De La Rue printer in the UK) would be sought after as they are rare,” but it would be more prudent to claim “uncommon” rather than "rare." See this Notable Terms link from my Notaphylic Culture site for a better explanation.
If a Euro note has a foreign printer code (a different nation printed it) than it tends to be much scarcer than a printer code that matches the nation's prefix. So while Finnish Euros tend to be highly sought after, if the note has a printer code from another nation, it would be even tougher to find (& uncommon). The table I inserted above unfortunately is missing the top row which shows the denomination. It should read:
5 Euro; 10 Euro; 20 Euro & 50 Euro (from left to right) above the 3 of notes reported with the T printer's code & Z prefix. The fourth column is where I found that 3,662,721 50 Euro notes with the Z prefix (& T printer code) were reported on EuroBillTracker. Your note could be uncommon (after all it is the # saved that counts) but I highly doubt it would be rare & highly valued in that condition.
Hope that helps!
(BTW: I also apologize for excluding the link where the printer codes & # of notes reported is published. I've just added it now).