The invention relates to a coil (1) made of a coiled metal strip (2), in particular an aluminum strip, having a marking (3, 103) on a flat side (2.1) of the metal strip (2). The aim of the invention is, inter alia, to be able to clearly identify the strip segments (7) severed from said coil (1). This aim is achieved, according to the invention, in that, for allocating strip segments (7) severed from the coil (1), the marking (3, 103) assigns the coil (1) and the original position of the marking on the coil(1) an information track, preferably extending across the entire strip length (L) of themetal strip (2), comprising a de-Bruijn sequence (5) of successively arranged words (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6 to 5.25) of said de-Bruijn sequence, or of a subset of the words (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6 to 5.25) of said de-Bruijn sequence.