404 Not Found

nginx Industry News and Events

You are here:

Home
Industry News & Events

Industry News

Vietnam commemorative 100 dong banknote 2015 thumbnail

Vietnam issues commemorative collector note

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 06/04/2016

The State Bank of Vietnam held a press conference on the 4 April 2016 to announce that a souvenir (commemorative) 100 dong banknote will become available during May this year, to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Banking Sector. The new note uses a substrate developed by paper producer Arjowiggins Security called DIAMONE® COMPOSITE which uses…

Details

Poland 20 zloty commemorative banknote thumbnail.

Poland issues new 20 zloty banknote

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 05/04/2016

Poland’s Central Bank, the Naradowy Bank Polski, will issue a new collector 20 zloty banknote on the 12th April 2016 to commemorate the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland. The note, which was designed by Kristin Michalczuk and printed by the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW S.A.), contains several modern security features, including De La Rue 3D lens technology based security…

Details

New Colombian 100,000-peso banknote

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 04/04/2016

A press release from the Colombian Central Bank, the Banco De La República, has confirmed that a new 100,000 peso banknote was introduced on the 31 March 2016. The note is the first of a new series of banknotes issued by the Central Bank, and is an additional denomination to the previous banknote series which consisted…

Details

Thumbnail of new £1 coin from Royal Mint

Royal Mint starts £1 coin production

Coin, NewsBy SMI 01/04/2016

The new 12 sided £1 coin has officially gone into production a year before it is due to be issued into circulation, with the UK’s Royal Mint producing the coins at a rate of 4,000 coins per minute and the aim of producing 1.4 billion of the new coins. The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne,…

Details

Coin being inserted into a vending machine.

How Do Vending Machines Detect Fake Coins?

Coin, News, TechnologyBy SMI 31/03/2016

How vending machines work is a mystery to many people. Just how does it know which coins you are using, or which coins should be rejected? Vending machines, found in offices, hospitals, shopping malls, road service stations, airports, railway stations… just about anywhere, are a sought after convenience when it comes to snacking. But when they…

Details

Ukraine manufactures linen fibre banknotes

Banknotes, NewsBy SMI 29/03/2016

Ukraine’s Central Bank, the National Bank of Ukraine, has manufactured its first batch of banknote paper using linen fibres. A press release issued by the Bank on 23 March 2016 details how Ukrainian banknote paper manufacturers have been investigating the possibility of manufacturing banknote paper by mixing traditional cotton fibres with other plant fibres, such…

Details