Size Duel deck / Sport, food and everyday things
5 euro note (first series)
Length: longer edge
12 cm (4.72 in)
Euro notes grow longer as their value goes up.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“120 x 62 mm”Deutsche Bundesbank: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“EURO 5: 120 mm x 62 mm”European Central Bank archive — 2 July 1997 design release: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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