50 euro note euro banknote is about four years before it is replaced due to wear. It is the fourth smallest note, measuring 140 mm × 77 mm, and has an orange colour scheme. The note depicts bridges and arches/doorways in the Renaissance era (15th and 16th centuries). The €50 note contains several complex security features such as watermarks, invisible ink, holograms and microprinting that document its authenticity. The full design of the Europa series €50 banknote was revealed on 5 July 2016. The new 50 note was released on 4 April 2017. The euro was founded on 1 January 1999, when it
Euro banknotes The notes also carry the acronyms of the name of the European Central Bank in five linguistic variants, covering all official languages of the EU in 2002 (the time of the banknote introduction), and now 19 out of 24 official languages of the EU28, in the following order: The order is determined by the EU country listing order, with BCE ahead of ECB because of the national precedence of Belgium's two main languages, followed by the remaining languages of Germany ("Deutschland"), Greece ("Ελλάδα/Elláda") and Finland ("Suomi"), in that order. The euro banknote initial designs were chosen from 44 proposals in