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Is it legal to print specimen €5 note on flyer?

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  • 18-09-2017 6:06pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭


    Thank you all in advance.

    I'm offering mobile phone and laptop repair service so I'd like to add €5 note onto the flyer and in hope of attracting customers.

    Am I allowed to do it?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Can't see anything about this on the Central Bank website. But if you add Specimen - like your attached image, then you should be fine.

    I spotted on the Bank of England website that swatches of notes i.e. Not the full face of a banknote is acceptable without the Specimen watermark.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    that would make me pick it up then throw it away once I realized :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    You should be fine, but to be sure, use it at >20% bigger or smaller than the actual note size. I would also tend to use around half the note in the graphic design, partly because of what the previous poster said.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭EndaHonesty


    Canonfan wrote: »
    Thank you all in advance.

    I'm offering mobile phone and laptop repair service so I'd like to add €5 note onto the flyer and in hope of attracting customers.

    Am I allowed to do it?
    As long as reproductions in advertising or illustrations cannot be mistaken for genuine banknotes they can be used without prior authorisation of the ECB.

    https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/images/html/index.en.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Canonfan


    Thanks to all, i really appreciate your help.


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