Crane Currency has announced that it will close its printing plant in Tumba, Sweden, moving its banknote printing operations to its newly opened facility in Malta. The paper mill, design team and related departments will continue to operate from the Tumba facility. The Swedish banknote printing plant has been operating since 1755 when it was run by the…
The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic is continuing to celebrate 25 years of the country’s national currency with the introduction of two new coins. The coins were issued by the Central Bank yesterday on the country’s National Currency Day to celebrate 25 years of independence and the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the national currency. The…
The Central Bank of Venezuela has confirmed that a new International Organization for Standardization (ISO) code will be assigned to its soon to be denominated currency. The ISO code “VES” will be used to identify the new Sovereign Bolivar that comes into effect on 04 June 2018, replacing the previous ISO code of “VEF”.. The Venezuelan currency is to…
De La Rue (DLR) has opened its new product authentication facility in Malta, which will produce tax stamps, authentication and brand products including protection labels for Microsoft. According to DLR, the facility, which was opened today by the Prime Minister of Malta on 24 April 2018, is a centre of excellence across Currency, Identity and Brand…
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…
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…
Switzerland has won the International Bank Note Society’s (IBNS) Bank Note of the Year Award 2017 for the second year in a row. The IBNS selected Switzerland’s Ninth Series 10-franc banknote from more than 170 banknotes that were released globally throughout 2017. The Swiss 50, also from the Ninth Banknote Series, won the award for 2016.…
The Central Bank of Venezuela has confirmed that banknotes from its new re-denominated currency will start circulating on 4 June 2018. The news was confirmed by the Central Bank of Venezuela in a press release issued today. News of the new denominations, which will have three zeros removed from each denomination’s value, was announced last month by…
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Philippines Central Bank, has started to issue its latest circulating coins from the New Generation Currency (NGC) Coin Series. The new series comprises of six coin denominations consisting of the 10, 5 and 1-piso and the 25, 5 and 1-sentimo. Micro-printed details have been included on the two highest…
The next Swiss banknote of the new Ninth Series will begin circulating in August 2018. The Swiss National Bank, Switzerland’s Central Bank, confirmed the news via a press release yesterday. The new 200-franc banknote will be the fourth denomination to be issued from the Ninth banknote series, following the launch of the 50-franc note in…