Why the Catalogue?

Paper (now also plastic) money, as any other credit money, has only a negligible intrinsic value; they need trust for their usage

Exist threats:

Political and economic instability accompanied by a high inflation or high scale of counterfeiting

Biological motives, social, institutional and technical preconditions make the banknotes counterfeiting possible and attractive

As an example of technical preconditions, the dramatic growth of counterfeits made by modern reprographic devices is to be mentioned

Efforts of security printers; issuing authorities:

• Technically more complicated banknotes (e.g. new security features, inks, materials, etc.)
• Shorter innovation cycles (e.g. US dollars, Series 1929; 1990 (62 years), 1996 (6 years), 2003(7 years))

Attention:

There is a limited reason to place any highly sophisticated security feature into a banknote;
if majority of users cannot authenticate it

Solution:

Sophisticated banknotes need sophisticated expert systems such as

The Catalogue of Currencies

Features:

Mission: Professional, simple and effective work with global currencies

In time information (monthly update): New issuing banknotes; changes of Legal Tender/Recall periods; typical counterfeits; upgrades

Genuineness (Overt, Semi-covert, Covert security features): Locations; indications; illustrations; video sequences; detail descriptions of security features and recognition process (knowledge, look, tilt, feel, devices)

Validity: Automatic monitoring of Legal Tender/Recall periods

Permanent Training: Each security feature is linked to relevant training part

Administration: Central or/and local settings, central updating, internal purchase/sale rules, annotations

The Catalogue of Currencies:

Knowledge, training, education, survey, recognition, detection, comprehensive databases in time, sample room

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