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 Contents № 6 April 2010 

THE OLYMPIC INTERESTS WILL BE PROTECTED WITH LABELS

Security labels will have not only visual security features, but also a unique identification number helping to track the movement of goods with Olympic marks through the electronic information system.

To support the Olympic Games personally As Arkady Trachuk, General Director of Goznak, noted, solutions offered by Goznak today for the security of licensed products with the mark of the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 are a complex of visual and covert printed and electronic means of securing such kinds of products from counterfeiting.

THE FIRST RUSSIAN «WINDOW»

Special attention is paid to the paper security complex on the promotional banknote of Goznak dedicated to 100th anniversary of the birth of Galina Ulanova

In 2010 Goznak has issued two promotional banknotes — of the “high” and the “low” facevalue — not simply to show the maximal complex of security features and recent developments, but also to demonstrate new concepts of security complexes for banknotes with different face-values. Alexander Mochalov, Deputy Director of Security Technologies of Goznak, helped The Watermark to wade through the details of the promotional banknote with the high face-value.

THE MONEY IS FIRST OF ALL THE PAPER. OR OTHER SUBSTRATE

The cost of the modern banknote is formed for 65–80 % basing on the price of the substrate and the security elements applied

The Banknote Conference took place in Washington last December. In spite of the difficult economic situation in the world, in 2009 the Conference attracted about 600 delegates from over 50 countries. It was 16% more than a year and a half before.

INTERPOL HAS RECEIVED E-PASSPORTS

The Ukrainian Consortium “EDAPS” was entrusted with their issue

In October 2009 in Singapore the General Assembly of INTERPOL by common consent confirmed Consortium “EDAPS” as the manufacturer of e-passports for its employees. Since that moment the Consortium has officially proceeded to implement the e-passport and ID card of the INTERPOL employee.

HOLOGRAPHY: LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE

Anniversary Holo-pack Holo-print® conference has summed up and gone ahead

The Twentieth Holo-pack Holo-print® Conference took place in November, 2009 in Budapest. According to its organizer Ian Lancaster, Budapest, the birthplace of Dennis Gabor who invented holography, is in a way a cradleland of holography and it is very symbolic that this is where the anniversary conference took place. If at the first Holo-pack Holo-print® conference in Gatwick, in the south of England, there were only 60 delegates, in 2009 there were more than 200 delegates and 19 companies placed their booths at the trade exhibition.

SAFETY PORTRAIT WITH 3D-EFFECT

For ID-cards of the new generation a holographic photo of a document holder is used. Specialists assure it is impossible to counterfeit it

ID-card personalization with the help of a hologram is a new way of protection and production of identity documents suggested by Hologram Industries, a French company. Guenther Dausmann's report about HoloID®-technology, presented at the 20th conference Holopack Holo-print in Budapest, was pointed out by many delegates as one of the most interesting. Guenther Dausmann told the correspondent of The Watermark about the advantages of new documents.

THE UKRAINIAN T.I.G.R.A.

Thanks to the new development of “Holographia” SE, the iridescent hologram has acquired new security functions

The new holographic security feature with the T.I.G.R.A. effect was developed by the specialists of “Holographia” SE (Kiev). Its peculiarity is in the moire effect easy to recognize and difficult to counterfeit. Ignat Pogan, an specialist of “Holographia” SE was the first to describe the new security element to The Watermark Magazine.

IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO FORESEE THE INTERESTS OF THE NUMISMATISTS THAN TO FORECAST THE WEATHER

Alexander Yurov, Director of the Cash Currency Circulation Department of the Bank of Russia, answered the questions of The Gold Chervonets

— What kind of year did 2009 turn out to be from the point of view of dynamics of the interest to commemorative coins? What is your prognosis for 2010?
— In 2009 the Bank of Russia put into circulation 54 kinds of commemorative coins, including 15 gold ones, 38 silver and one combined coin of silver with a gold insert.

FOUR COINS AND 150 YEARS OF WORK

The Bank of Russia found it anything but simple to choose the symbols for the festive coins

The State Bank of the Russian Empire was founded in 1860 according to the Decree by Alexander II. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the event in 2010 the Bank of Russia put into circulation four commemorative coins: two silver ones with the face-values of 3 and 5 rubles, and two gold coins with the face-values of 50 and 50 000 rubles. Moreover, one of them is the first in Russia 5-kilogram gold coin. The coins of “The 150th Anniversary of the Bank of Russia” appeared on February 1, 2010.

THE WEIGHT IS TAKEN!

The Bank of Russia congratulated everybody with its 150th anniversary by issuing a 5-kilogram gold coin.

There is a new absolute coin record in Russia. On February 1, 2010 the Bank of Russia put into circulation a unique 5-kilogram gold coin with the face-value of 50 000 rubles of “The 150th Anniversary of the Bank of Russia” series. It is the heaviest and the most expensive gold coin in the country.