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The unique code identifying one individual note.
Also known as: Number on a banknote, Serial, Letters and numbers on a note
A prefix and a number, printed twice in different positions and often in different sizes. It identifies a single physical note, which is what makes a note traceable and what makes two notes with the same serial an obvious forgery.
An alphanumeric code unique to an individual banknote, conventionally printed twice on the same face in different positions and frequently in different sizes or colours.
Contexts: Public information
Printed twice deliberately. A forger working from a single image reproduces one number in both places or misaligns them, and comparing the two is a check anyone can make without equipment.
The prefix identifies the print run, which is how a note is dated and how issuers withdraw a specific batch without recalling a whole denomination.
A short group of capital letters followed by a run of numerals, printed twice on the same side of the note in different positions.