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Beijing police seize record haul of fake money
Beijing police uncovered the largest counterfeit banknote haul in the history of New China on the 8th of July, seizing fake renminbi notes with a face value of more than 6.6 million ($970,590). The forged notes were smoother and thinner than real bills - and the "100" mark did not change colors from grey to green. read more...

The Baroon Dollar
The suitably named "Baroon dollar" will come in denominations of one, two, five, 10 and 20 and will begin circulating within the Maleny community in late August. The interest on the Australian dollars in the central reserve will go towards community grants. "People don't realise how much of their money disappears overseas, particularly when you shop at the larger chains," said creator Darren Mitchell. read more ...

Computer information processing methods applied to bank-note sorting machines and validators
The number of detected counterfeit bank notes and what is more important their quality continues to rise despite the constant anti-counterfeit measures undertaken by all the countries around the world. Together with the number of counterfeits grows the need to improve the equipment as well as the methods of currency authenticity verification. read more...

Expert detector C8
The security features of all security documents and banknotes are improving every day and their counterfeits are only a few days behind them. C8 detects all security features known these days and its connectivity to other devices such as PC or magnetic detector makes it expert detecting solution. Check out detecting of some security features by C8 ...

UK minted error coins after 300 years
In November 2008 a number of 20p coins were incorrectly minted resulting in their having no date. One of those coins was sold on eBay for 7100 Pounds. read more...

$8.4M In Counterfeit Money Seized In Peru
The U.S. Secret Service announced the arrest of five people and the seizure of $8.4 million in counterfeit U.S. currency, as part of a bilateral effort to combat a rise in the spread of fake $100 bills. read more...

Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting
In the first half of 2009 a total of 413,000 counterfeit euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation. This is an increase of around 17% on the quantity recovered in the previous six months. read more...

Azerbaijani central bank not plans to change banknotes
The Azerbaijani Central Bank does not plan to issue new banknotes due to change of its name despite its old name - Azerbaycan Milli Banki (National Bank of Azerbaijan) was indicated at banknotes, the Central Bank's board chairman Elman Rustamov said on May 6. read more...

"Polymer" or "plastic material"?
Deputy BSP Governor and officer in charge Armando Suratos said the Australians, who pioneered in the use of polymer as substitute material on which to print legal tender, refuse to call them “plastic money.” read more...

India to issue ID Cards for 1.2 bilion Indians.
Nandan M. Nilekanias, chairman of the country’s recently-formed Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), is launching a massive effort to provide each of India's 1.2 billion people with an ID card embedded with a microchip. read more...

Mexico announces creation of citizens ID card
Calderón said that the citizens’ ID card will contain the full biometric identity of each Mexican. According to press reports the roll out will begin this year and by 2012 everyone would have one. It is understood the cards will contain fingerprint, iris and facial information. Many Mexicans currently use voter ID cards for identification purposes.
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Man arrested after database detects passport stolen eight years ago
A man attempting to enter South Africa was arrested at Johannesburg airport after a check against INTERPOL’s databases revealed that he was travelling on a blank passport stolen in Pakistan eight years ago. read more...

Iran bought e-passport solution
Thanks to two personal identification systems of the type LP2100, the company instructed by the Iranian government is in a position to personalize e-passports extremely rapidly, with all the biometric data, optical and electrical. read more...

China to use e-passport for Macao residents from September
China will start using e-passport and e-TP (Travel Permits) for residents of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) from September 1, 2009. The holder of the two documents will be permitted to travel to all countries and regions in the world. read more...

Ghanaians to get biometric passports in 2010
Benefits to be derived from the new passports, according to Mr Akanbong, would include elimination of middlemen in the application and acquisition of passports and the avoidance of situations where individuals manipulate the system and acquire multi-passports. read more...

Lucky win for the Swiss biometric passports
A referendum that took place in Switzerland on Sunday, 17 May 2009 was in favour of the biometric passports law by a very narrow margin. Thus the official results show that 50.14% of the voters approved the law, with just 5 504 votes separating the two sides. read more...

UK accelerating identity cards rollout
Residents of Greater Manchester will be able to apply for an Identity card before the end of this year and residents in locations across the North West will be entitled to apply from early next year.

Identity fraud costs the UK economy £1.2 billion on average each year. At a cost of just £30, the identity card will provide a cheap, universal and simple proof of identity, helping protect against ID fraud and acting as an important tool in the fight against organised crime, illegal working and terrorism. read more...

De La Rue will prduce UK Biometric Passport
The next generation of British passports will be delivered under a new £400 million contract announced today.
The biometric passport was given a new design and improved security features which were not present on previous passports, including intricate designs, complex watermarks and a chip antenna. read more...

Our Catalogue of Currencies was enriched by new additions this month :

We enriched our catalogue with complete counterfeits description of:

European Economic and Monetary Union:
- 1 EUR / 2002 Germany
- 1 EUR / 2002 Italy
- 100 EUR / 2002 (Dangerousity 3)
Canada: 100 CAD / 2004 (Dangerousity 3)
Great Britain: 20 GBP / 2006 F - TYPE 003

We enriched our catalogue with complete description of:

Bahamas:
- 5 BSD / L.2000(2007)
Bhutan:
- 50 BTN / 2008
- 1000 BTN / 2008
European Economic and Monetary Union:
- 2 EUR / 2009 Portugal
Macao:
- 100 MOP / 2008 - BoC
- 500 MOP / 2008 - BoC
Nepal:
- 10 NPR / 2008
- 50 NPR / 2008
- 100 NPR / 2008
- 1000 NPR / 2008
Northern Ireland:
- 5 GBP / 2008 - BoI
- 10 GBP / 2008 - BoI
- 20 GBP / 2008 - BoI
Poland:
- 10 PLN / 2008 Commemorative
Pakistan:
- 5 PKR / 2008
- 20 PKR / 2007
- 50 PKR / 2008
Paraguay:
- 5000 PYG / 2005
- 20000 PYG / 2007
- 50000 PYG / 2007
Samoa:
- 5 WST / 2008
- 10 WST / 2008
- 20 WST / 2008
- 50 WST / 2008
- 100 WST / 2008
Tonga:
- 1 TOP / 2008
- 2 TOP / 2008
- 5 TOP / 2008
- 10 TOP / 2008
- 20 TOP / 2008
- 50 TOP / 2008
- 100 TOP / 2008
USA: 1 USD coin / 2009
Uruguay: 20 UYU / 2008 E

We enriched our catalogue with initial description of:

Albania:

200 ALL / 2007
5000 ALL / 2007

Bulgaria: 5 BGN / 2009
Denmark: 50 DKK / 2009 - awaited
Guernsey: 20 GBP / 2009
India: 5 INR / 2009
Indonesia: 2000 IDR / 2008 -
Iran5000 IRR / 2009 Commemorative
Kyrgyz republic:
- 20 KGS / 2009
- 50 KGS / 2009
- 100 KGS / 2009
Libya: 20 LYD / 2009
Nicaragua:
- 10 NIO / 2007
- 20 NIO / 2007
- 100 NIO / 2007
- 200 NIO / 2007
Nepal:
- 5 NPR / 2009
- 20 NPR / 2009
Madagascar: 10000 MGA / 2008
Paraguay: 5000 PYG / 2008
Romania: 10 RON / 2008
Rwanda: 500 RWF / 2008
Republic of Korea: 50000 KRW / 2009
Malaysia: 50 MYR / 2009
Philippines:
- 20 PHP / 2009 Commemorative
- 50 PHP / 2009 Commemorative
- 100 PHP / 2009 Commemorative
- 200 PHP / 2009 Commemorative
- 500 PHP / 2009 Commemorative
- 1000 PHP / 2009 Commemorative
Tunisia: 50 TND / 2008
Uruguay:
- 50 UYU / 2008 D
- 100 UYU / 2008 E
- 1000 UYU / 2008 C

... and many more text informations and dates.

If you would like to access online version, please click on the link The Catalogue of Currencies

Our Catalogue of Documents was enriched by new additions this month :

We enriched our catalogue with additional informations of:

Czech Republic:
- CZE / 2009 - Passport
Netherlands:
- NLD / 2006 - ID Card

We enriched our catalogue with documents of:

Australia:

AUS / 2009 Passport

Albania:

ALB / 2009 Passport

Bosna and Herzegovina:

BIH / 2009 Passport

Bulgaria:

BGN / 2010 Passport

Burkina Faso:

BFA / 2008 Passport
BFA / 2008 Diplomatic passport
BFA / 2008 Service passport

Croatia:

HRV / 2009 Passport

Finland:

FIN / 2004 Diplomatic passport
FIN / 2004 Service passport

Kazakhstan:

KAZ / 2009 Passport
KAZ / 2009 Passport for stateless person

Lithuania: LTU / 2009 ID Card
Macedonia:

MKD / 2007 Passport
MKD / 2007 Diplomatic passport
MKD / 2007 Official passport

Malta:

MLT / 2008 Passport
MLT / 2008 Diplomatic Passport

Montenegro:

MEA / 2008 Passport
MEA / 2008 Diplomatic Passport
MEA / 2008 Service Passport

New Zealand:

NZD / 2008 Passport

Romania:

ROU / 2009 ID Card
ROU / 2009 Passport

Spain: ESP / 2006 Diplomatic passport

... and many more text informations and dates.

If you would like to access online version, please click on the link The Catalogue of Currencies