Close up image of Crane Currency's MOTION SURFACE micro-optics feature

Crane releases MOTION SURFACE™ film

Currency, News, Technology

Crane Currency has released an educational film detailing MOTION SURFACE™, their latest micro-optics security feature product. MOTION SURFACE™ is an evolution of Crane’s MOTION® security thread feature, developed to enable the MOTION® micro-optics technology to be applied as a patch. MOTION® was first used in a circulating banknote in 2006, by Sweden’s Riksbank on the 1,000-krona note. RAPID®, the first…

Thumbnail image of the Bolivia 10 2018 banknote.

Bolivia begins issuing new banknote series with Bs.10

Banknotes, News

The Central Bank of Bolivia has launched its new banknote series with the issuance of the new Bs10 banknote. The new Bolivia Bs. 10 banknote entered circulation on 10 April 2018, the first of the new banknote series called Primera Familia de Billetes (PFB), which translates to the First Family of Banknotes. The design of the banknote…