Armenia and Kyrgyzstan win Best Regional Banknote Awards

The Best Regional Banknote Awards have been presented this week at the High Security Printing EMEA conference, with Armenia and Kyrgyzstan announced as the winners. Reconnaissance International revealed the winners of the Best Regional Banknote Awards at its HSP EMEA conference held in Warsaw, Poland. According to Reconnaissance, the Best Regional Banknote award recognises “…outstanding achievement in the design,…

Thumbnail image of Louisenthal Water house note specimen.

Louisenthal wins IACA Award for Best Specimen Banknote

The Louisenthal “Water” house note has won the Best Specimen Banknote award, presented by the International Association of Currency Affairs (IACA). The “Water” specimen house note includes the optically variable RollingStar® LEAD security foil shown on the left of the adjacent image, as well as the RollingStar® Registered security thread, seen in the right hand note. Louisenthal, a…

Thumbnail image of the Switzerland Swiss 50 franc banknote issued April 2016.

Switzerland wins 2016 IBNS Banknote of the Year Award

The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) has announced the new Swiss 50 banknote as the winner of the Bank Note of The Year Award 2016. The 50-franc banknote was issued by the Swiss National Bank in Switzerland in April 2016, the first denomination to be circulated from the country’s ninth banknote series. Printed by Orell Fussli Security Printing…

Australian five banknote thumbnail.

Australian $5 wins Regional Banknote of the Year award

The new Australian polymer $5 banknote has been awarded the Regional Banknote of The Year at the High Security Printing Asia conference. The award was presented at the conference in Singapore on 6 December 2016, hosted by Reconnaissance. According to Reconnaissance, “The awards recognise outstanding achievement in the design, technical sophistication and security of a banknote or banknote…

Durasafe® customer, Kazakhstan banknote.

Kazakhstan and Georgia win Best Banknote of the Year Award

This year’s coveted Banknote of the Year Award has been jointly awarded to the National Banks of Kazakhstan and Georgia. The award was announced by Reconnaissance during this year’s High Security Printing Europe conference in Romania on 15 March 2016. The award recognises outstanding achievement in the design, technical sophistication and security of a banknote…

IBNS 2013 Banknote of the Year Nominations

Nominations for the 2013 Banknote of the Year award, hosted by the International Bank Note Society (IBNS) have now been named. The annual award recognises exceptional banknote designs, which have been put into circulation for use by the public during the year of the award. The IBNS states that banknotes put forward to be nominated…