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The European Central Bank ( BCE ) withdrew 301,000 counterfeit euro banknotes during the first half of 2018, or 17.1% less than in October-December 2017, according to a Central Bank press release Compared to the first half of last year, the number of counterfeit notes in the currency bloc countries decreased by 9.1%.
Tickets worth 20 euros and 50 euros continue to be falsified, accounting for 83% of detected counterfeits. Thirdly – a denomination of banknote of 100 euros, whose share in counterfeits is 10.9%. Counterfeiters are often interested in 200 euro banknotes (a 0.8% share).
"The likelihood of obtaining a counterfeit denomination is not at all great.The number of forgeries remains extremely small compared to the number of real notes in circulation, which have steadily increased at rates exceeding the growth of GDP ", – notes BCE .
In 2017, the number of Eurobanks in the turnover increased by 5.9% and their value by 4%. Total in the euro area more than 21 billion cents of a single currency for a total value of more than 1.1 trillion euros.
According to the Bundesbank, in the first half of the year, the German authorities seized 31,100 counterfeit bills in denominations of 1.8 million euros. The number of counterfeit euros dropped by 6.2%
"Statistically, for every 10,000 people, there are about seven fake bills a year," said Johannes Beerman, a member of the board of directors of the Bundesbank
. account for 72% of all counterfeits.
However, in Estonia, the number of counterfeits detected for cuts of 50 and 100 euros increased during the year. At the same time, counterfeit coins in Estonia were 20% lower than those of a year earlier – that is to say only in 39 cases. In total, in January-June, 1,159 counterfeit euro banknotes were discovered in the country, 912 more than in the previous year.
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