The shreds were produced by the cross-cut shredder of a banknote processing system BPS M7 from Giesecke+Devrient when destroying euro banknotes (series ES2) of different denominations. The shredder cuts pieces with a typical size of 1.5 x 14 mm². The banknote cannot be reconstructed. A €100 banknote is cut and torn into more than 500 pieces, where the pieces of many banknotes are mixed.
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