New $100 security feature

[San_Miguel98]

Here's a quote from the IACA awards:

Crane's Motion™ got the hotly contested award for the Best New Currency Feature. This optically variable feature involving a micro-lens array for security threads first appeared on the Swedish 1,000 Kronor bank note and has recently been selected as the primary overt feature for the new US$100. G-switch™ (from Securency) and Varifeye® (from Louisenthal) were worthy competitors who both received runner up awards. All the competitors for this award have made great strides in raising the bar to counterfeit money.

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I wonder what the new $100 will end up looking like. Here's a borrowed image of the new 1000 Kronor note. The Motion security thread is the brown striped band going down the middle.

 

[bifrost]

It is a rather nice feature I think. Now are the new 1000kr banknotes beginning to appear more in circulation. The waiting time was because there were low demand in the market for new 1000kr banknotes. Also 1000kr banknotes are often in very good condition even after many years in circulation. This of course because they are a high denomination (1000kr about 145 USD).

// Joakim

[thedeadpoint]

Hmmm... so the brown sections on the strip move up and down as you tilt the note?

[De Orc]

Sounds like the new holo on the new bank of England twenty pound notethat was introduced recently, Here is a link to the Banks web page on the new security built into the note.

 

 

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/s...security_20.htm

 

 

[bifrost]

It is a bit different than the holographic strip you are mentioning (you can see a holographic strip to the left of the note). The numbers seem to float on another white plane than the paper (it is like you see through a window behind the note and get a feeling of depth). The numbers seem to move independently from when you move the note.

// Joakim

[Scottishmoney]

I wonder why if the $100 is the most counterfeited, especially overseas, it is the last to get the new colouring and effects makeover? The new $5 bill is on tap to be released next March or April accd to the BEP, but nothing yet on a release date for the new $100.