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,…

BoE pound design

Royal Mint’s new pound coin design

The Royal Mint has produced a prototype for a replacement £1 coin with the aim of reducing counterfeit coins in circulation. The coin will include the Royal Mint’s new security feature, iSIS (Integrated Secure Identification Systems), which “involves the application of an existing security technology that has been proven over decades in banknotes”. The Mint…

Botswana launches new circulation coins

A statement by the Royal Canadian Mint has announced that it has produced a new series of coins for the Central Bank of Botswana. The entire series of coins use the Canadian bank’s multi-ply plating technology – consisting of alternating layers of metal such as nickel, copper and brass plated over a steel core –…