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April 2026
House notes (also known as concept, sample, or specimen notes) are non-circulating, design-focused banknotes produced by banknote printers and substrate and feature suppliers to promote their design and technical capabilities, introduce their latest features and/or celebrate special events, anniversaries, and other milestones.
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June 2025
Welcome this round-up all new banknotes and coins issued in 2024, brought to you by the publishers of Currency News™ and Coin & Mint News™. This annual summary will be issued each year from now on, covering the previous year’s new issues. This report is only available to Currency News and Coin & Mint News Subscribers - Please make sure to login to access it.
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February 2025
The backdrop to this paper is the European Central Bank’s Product Environmental Footprint study, which found that 82% of the environmental impact of banknotes happened post-issue; hence a paper dedicated to exploring cash recirculation and local recycling from every angle.
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October 2024
Published by Coin & Mint News™, the Directory of Circulating Coins is the only global guide to every circulating coin – making it an invaluable reference and research tool.
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May 2024
Cash Industry’s Most Comprehensive Directory Back by popular demand, the latest edition of The Directory of Currency & Technology Suppliers is an essential resource for central banks and issuers, printers and mints, and everyone in the cash cycle to identify suppliers and partners. The latest edition is the seventh since its launch in 2004.
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September 2023
The ‘Smartphones for Authentication’ report summarises the wide range of technologies underpinning the role of smartphones in the authentication arena, with the aim of identifying further opportunities… as well as potential drawbacks.
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February 2023
The Cash & Payments Sustainability Forum™ in Edinburgh was an industry first. As such it was very much an experiment, a step into the unknown. Following on from the November 2021 white paper, ‘Cash: A Roadmap to Sustainability’, and a series of conference seminars throughout 2022, the goal was to take a systematic and in-depth look at sustainability for central banks, cash producers and the cash management sector.
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November 2022
This paper seeks to explain the options that central banks have for disposing of banknotes well, following the hierarchy of options shown here.
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December 2021
A new technology report exploring the domain of commercial printing innovations that go beyond visual colour, with the potential to generate entirely novel features for secure documents.
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October 2021
Cash: A Roadmap to Sustainability', a new report highlighting the progress made by the global cash industry to secure a sustainable future for cash, is now available to download and read.
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December 2020
An essential guide to the technology behind and use of security threads for banknotes. The first use of a security threads as we know it was in 1940. 80 years later, and the security thread has evolved to become one of the most successful and innovative features to secure banknotes - - combining high public recognition value and aesthetic appeal with machine-readability and cost efficiency.
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October 2018
An In-Depth Report on the Evolution of Diffractive Features on Banknotes Over the Past 30 Years 2017 marked the 70th anniversary of the invention of the hologram, while 2018 is the 30th anniversary of the first use of a diffractive feature (optically variable device or OVD) on a banknote. Since then, it has evolved to become one of the most enduring and successful public security features for currency.
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