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Bdaily
Banknote counterfeiting: how VHP Security Paper makes it harder
Bdaily
It's a known fact that banknotes are highly technical products, with large amounts of technology underpinning them. Though the printer takes on most of the anti-counterfeiting tasks, the paper medium is the basis on which will be built the graphical ...

Financial Times
India ramps up banknote printing to end cash crunch
Financial Times
India is ramping up its printing of new banknotes, as it seeks to ease a currency shortage that has emptied ATMs in many parts of the country, reviving memories of the disruptive 2016 ban on high-denomination notes. Arun Jaitley, finance minister ...
Banknote shortage leaves India's cash machines without rupeesThe Times

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Sputnik International
Money Field: Tourists Find Billion Rubles in Missile Shaft
Sputnik International
Packages of Soviet banknotes were lying right on the ground in the forest in Vladimir region, covering the former missile shaft. After monetary reform was carried out in the 1990s, millions of obsolete Soviet rubles were concealed in former missile ...

The Northern Daily Leader
Oxley Police District warning after business finds counterfeit notes
The Northern Daily Leader
Look for the star: Diamond-shaped patterns are printed inside a circle on both sides of the banknote. If you hold the banknote up to the light, the patterns should line up perfectly to form a seven-pointed star. The clear window: Check that the white ...

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The Observer
Rare coin and banknote collection: local collector adds unique pieces to collection
The Observer
“Everyone is coming to see this note,” Soobah says as he points to an 1878 one dollar bill – the second year for the series of Dominion of Canada banknotes were issued. “It's an extremely rare piece. They printed two different notes one with the ...

Nottingham Post
How many of these old banknotes do you remember?
Nottingham Post
In the past year or so we've lost the paper five and ten pound notes, both gone for good to make way for their newer, plastic versions. But they are by no means the only notes to have been lost in recent years. Even before the polymer tenners and ...

Daily Telegraph
Fake $100 notes being passed around on the northern beaches
Daily Telegraph
Police are warning businesses to check any $100 bills they receive in payments. Australia has one of the lowest rates of counterfeiting in the world, but in the last financial year, according to the Reserve Bank (RBA), more than 4300 fake counterfeit ...

The Phuket News
Man caught with drugs, fake banknotes in suitcase at Phuket airport
The Phuket News
Man caught with drugs, fake banknotes in suitcase at Phuket airport. PHUKET: Police arrested a man at Phuket International Airport with a haul of drugs found in his suitcase along with 53 fake B1,000 banknotes last night (April 12). crime, drugs ...

Online Khabar (English) (satire) (blog)
Kathmandu police arrest two in possession of banned Indian banknotes worth Rs 5 million
Online Khabar (English) (satire) (blog)
Police in Kathmandu say they have arrested two Nepali citizens in possession of banned Indian banknotes worth Rs 4.9 million. Sunil Dev Baishya (53) from Katahari Rural Municipality-3 of Morang and Chet Bahadur Nepali (50) from Shivapuri Rural ...

Lonely Planet Travel News
Switzerland's 'gorgeous' 10-franc note has been voted bank note of the year
Lonely Planet Travel News
Over 170 new banknotes were released worldwide during 2017, and almost a third were considered to be of sufficiently new design to be eligible for nomination. The Swiss 10-franc note was described as “a gorgeous yellow vertical banknote” by the judges ...

Express.co.uk
Four Britons arrested in Magaluf for 'using FAKE banknotes' to fund party lifestyle
Express.co.uk
Four Britons arrested in Magaluf for 'using FAKE banknotes' to fund party lifestyle. POLICE have arrested four Britons suspected of using fake banknotes to fund a party lifestyle in Magaluf. The men were held on Monday night after police were alerted ...

Daily Star
Brits arrested in Magaluf for 'using FAKE banknotes' to fund party life
Daily Star
Brits arrested in Magaluf for 'using FAKE banknotes' to fund party life. COPS have arrested four Brits suspected of using fake banknotes to fund a party lifestyle in Magaluf. Published 11th April 2018. fake1 SOLARPIX. NICKED: Spanish Police have ...

Six suspects to be tried in Latvia for making fake US dollar banknotes
Xinhua
RIGA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- A group of six money counterfeiting suspects are going to stand trial in Latvia for making and putting into circulation a large amount of fake U.S. dollar banknotes, the prosecutor's office for organized crime informed ...

euronews
Swiss on the money with award-winning banknote | Euronews
euronews
Did you know there was a worldwide contest to find the best new banknote? Well, there is, and Switzerland just won.

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Jakarta Post
BI, Navy team up to distribute banknotes in West Nusa Tenggara
Jakarta Post
BI, Navy team up to distribute banknotes in West Nusa Tenggara Services for the people: A Bank Indonesia (BI) officer carries packages of banknotes onto the KRI Sidat warship, which departed on March 20 for the central bank's cash service expedition ...

Manila Bulletin
BSP completes SPC facility upgrades
Manila Bulletin
The central bank has completed a major part of its modernization and expansion of its banknotes printing and coin minting facility, making the Philippines one of a few that could produce its entire currency requirement. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP ...

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The Local Switzerland
Switzerland's 'gorgeous' 10-franc banknote voted world's best
The Local Switzerland
It means Swiss notes have taken the IBNS prize two years in a row: last year the new Swiss 50-franc note took the gong. Switzerland is rolling out a new high-security series in banknotes in stages, with the new 200-bill set to appear in August. The ...

Pattaya Mail
New banknotes with portrait of His Majesty popular among Thai public
Pattaya Mail
Bangkok – Thai people are flocking to commercial banks to exchange old banknotes and coins for new ones featuring a portrait of His Majesty the King. The Government Savings Bank at Or Tor Kor Market was besieged by banknote collectors on Friday ...

Quartz
The Swiss 10-franc note tops the most beautiful currencies of 2017 ...
Quartz
Which country's currencies elicit shivers of pleasure, exchange rates be damned? For the second year in a row, the Swiss franc wins for its svelte stacks. The annual contest for the best banknote of the year, run by the International Bank Note Society ...

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Pattaya People
NEW THAI BANKNOTES
Pattaya People
The Bank of Thailand have released images of new currency bearing the portraits of King Vajiralongkorn. or King Rama X. The new set will enter circulation April 6, this year – the 236th anniversary of the founding of the Chakri dynasty – according to a ...