The Catalogue of Currencies suite - milestones:
April 29, 1929
Geneva Convention:
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Delegates acknowledged that Anti-counterfeiting centers had to be established
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Anti-counterfeiting centers were obligated to co-operate in dealing with counterfeiting; new issuing, etc.
Periods after 1929
Society pressure:
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Determine, collect and publish counterfeiting data
Problem solution:
Turnover of 1980/1990
New break impulse:
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Development of reprographics techniques (color copies, printers, computers)
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New counterfeiting offence
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New sophisticated currencies
November 11, 1992
New society demand:
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New sophisticated device to collect and publish currency data for recognition and detection
New global solution:
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The Catalogue of Currencies
- APIS software!
April 1993
Catalogue of Currencies
suite released to market:
June 1995
International conference on Anti-counterfeiting issues held in Bratislava:
Autumn 1996
The Catalogue of Currencies
Windows version 2.xx was released
1998
Other companies (competitors) developed and released electronic versions of the Paper catalogue
1999
The Catalogue of Currencies
Windows version 2.xx with automatic Internet updating of process was released
2000
The Catalogue of Currencies
Windows version 2.xx with central management (installation, administration, updating) was released
2001
The Catalogue of Currencies
"Thin-Client"
version 3.xx suite are released as follows:
2002
Biggest installation of The Catalogue of Currencies
"Thin-Client", v3.xx had been done (Intranet with 12 000 workstations)
2003
New language mutations: Chinese, Russian
2004
New language mutations: Spanish, German
