More Than You Knew There was to Know – the ‘Security Threads for Banknotes’ Report

The evolution of the security thread has happened at breakneck speed, with the pace accelerating in recent years. Today 95% of all paper banknotes contain a security thread and the options available can feel bewildering even to those familiar with banknotes. There is now a new way to make sense of all this – read the just published ‘Security Threads for Banknotes’ report from Currency News™.

There are 879 paper banknote denominations (86% of the total) and only 39 of them do not have a security thread. Details of all of the rest are in this report, including the location of the thread (embedded, windowed, front or back), the main optical effects and when they were introduced. Whether the reader is a central bank planning a new banknote series or a supplier or technology company trying to understand the options, here is the opportunity to see what other countries are doing.