tabbs Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 The Technical University Harburg (in Hamburg, Germany) has developed an optical sensor system that helps recognizing counterfeits. Current systems usually check features such as the size and weight of a coin, and the conductivity of the alloy. This sensor, developed for Crane NRI http://www.nri.de , can recognize photographic images and "wrong" relief structures. http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/101588/ http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb?fn=tt&sfn=go&id=1053938 (articles in German) Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 O_O Powerful... O_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28Plain Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Counterfeiting modern coins wouldn't be very cost-effective, would it? Unless there are circulating 5 and 10 euro coins, it would seem to me that counterfeiting would cost more than could be realized by passing the coins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted June 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Counterfeiting modern coins wouldn't be very cost-effective, would it? Unless there are circulating 5 and 10 euro coins, it would seem to me that counterfeiting would cost more than could be realized by passing the coins. Yes, counterfeiting notes is much more profitable indeed :-) And yet, in 2004 Europol confiscated 140,000 fake euro coins. In Germany alone, about 50,000 counterfeits were found in the same period of time. Most of them (more than 90%) were €2 pieces. Many of the fake coins are used in vending machines and the like, not so much for "face to face" payments. One problem we have in Euroland is that the coins are made in 15 mint locations, and despite common production standards there still are differences that the testing devices in vending machines have to allow for. Now the higher the "tolerance" is in such a case, the fewer legitimate pieces will be refused by a vending machines - but it may also accept certain counterfeit or foreign coins more easily. From what I read about this new optical recognition technology, it can handle such problematic cases, especially when combined with other (conductivity etc.) testing methods ... Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlavicScott Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 This sensor, developed for Crane NRI http://www.nri.de , can recognize photographic images and "wrong" relief structures. Christian So, no more Thailand 10 baht coins getting fed into vending machines??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDollarMan Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Kewl, Thanks 4 the read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted July 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 So, no more Thailand 10 baht coins getting fed into vending machines??? Hopefully not :-) Most vending machines will recognize those baht pieces anyway (unlike the €2 pieces they are not magnetic). But simple machines without any elaborate recognition techniques may still accept them. It is similar with new Turkish 1 lira coin ... Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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