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Counterfeit Seizures Up In Czech Republic
Police forces in the Czech Republic have reported an increase in seized counterfeit bills this year, saying the number of forged banknotes retrieved was up by seven per cent compared to last year. To date, Czech authorities have already seized 5,245 banknotes varying in denomination and value, but the increase doesn’t necessarily translate to an [...]
BSP Redesigns Banknotes to Keep Up With Security Technology
In an effort to keep up to date with anti-counterfeiting technology and increasingly high-tech security features on banknotes around the world, the Bankgko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in the Phillipines announced this week that it will launch a new series of banknotes in December 2010. “We want to take advantage of these technologies,” BSP Monetary [...]
“Counterfeiting, A Three-Part Series.” Part 3: Modern anti-counterfeiting measures
*This article is the last in a three-part series on counterfeiting. Read the first two articles in the series: Part 1, Part 2 Anti-counterfeiting technology in and on banknotes has been evolved more over the past 30 years than it has in the entire history of money. Today’s banknotes are not just used as currency; [...]
