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Picking up the design part of the Winter Olympic banknotes in the previous issue, in this issue we will continue to look at this pair of Winter Olympic banknotes to talk about the anti-counterfeiting technology of the Winter Olympic banknotes.
China's first plastic banknote developed with independent intellectual property rights
In the last issue, I said that the significance of the issuance of this pair of Winter Olympic banknotes is much higher than that of other commemorative banknotes issued before. It is because this is a plastic banknote developed by China's completely independent intellectual property rights, and it should be known that in the world, there are only two companies that can independently develop and mass-produce plastic substrates.
One is the Canadian CCL Group's Guardian substrate, which was previously developed by Australia in the 1980s, and the world's first plastic banknote used such substrates. China's first plastic banknote issued in 2000, the Dragon Banknote, is made of Guardian substrate.
The other is The Safeguard substrate developed by De Laroux, which began issuing plastic banknotes for such substrates in 2013. At present, the number of issues issued by these two companies is basically equal, and the total monopoly of more than 99% of plastic banknotes.
Therefore, do not underestimate this plastic banknote, the significance of its issuance is groundbreaking, and it is a milestone in the history of printing in our country. In Asia, it is also the first to issue self-developed plastic banknotes.
For the first time, rmb banknotes used a long strip foil
Compared with this plastic banknote, this banknote also has the first time in the history of the renminbi, the first time to use a long holographic film of the renminbi. The previously issued 1999 50th Anniversary Commemorative Banknote, the 2000 Dragon Banknote and the 2008 Olympic Banknote also have a foil, but they are all blocky films.
Some commemorative coupons have used a long holographic film before, but the effect is not as good as this banknote.
Let's first talk about what anti-counterfeiting technology is used for this Winter Olympic banknote, plastic banknotes are the focus, let's talk more about plastic banknotes.
Transparent windows for plastic bills for the Winter Olympics
Plastic banknotes we also talk more, plastic banknotes and paper banknotes the biggest and most essential difference is that there is a transparent window that paper banknotes can not have, this feature is that cotton fiber paper banknotes can not be copied, so evolved into the most anti-counterfeiting security features of plastic banknotes, so the security anti-counterfeiting features used in plastic banknotes, most of them are the use of transparent window characteristics as the focus of security research and development, in recent years these anti-counterfeiting technologies are also based on optical anti-counterfeiting, including anti-counterfeiting holographic films.
The use of different shapes of transparent windows and the application of different opaque layers, coupled with shading, offset printing and gravure pattern design, can create different design variations and anti-counterfeiting features, so the application of transparent windows can maximize the space of banknote design, but also can create different security features.
The shape of the transparent window of the Winter Olympic banknote is the shape of a mountain, which is basically transparent, only a small piece of "small tail" is translucent, and I can't understand why there is this "small tail" design, which may be a simple performance translucency.
The anti-counterfeiting of the transparent window of the Winter Olympic banknote has only one film, and the design of this film is composed of patterns such as mountains, the Great Wall and snowflakes. Anti-counterfeiting also concentrates on holographic scenes, multi-colored holographic stripes, 3D effects, dynamic numbers, etc. Let's take a look at the effects one by one.
Holographic scene, in the light tilting the angle of the banknote will see the multicolored effect, very gorgeous.
Multi-color holographic stripes, at the same angle, these seven or eight lines will appear different colors.
The 3D effect is that these relatively large snowflake patterns use 3D effects.
The dynamic number 20, tilting the angle of the banknote will see the dynamics of the 20 number inside.
Holographic and 3D effects can be seen on both the front and back, but the dynamic numbers are only visible on the front.
The holographic film of paper money is similar to that of plastic banknotes, and there should be some.
The anti-counterfeiting technology of the two Winter Olympic banknotes is similar
Other anti-counterfeiting technologies are similar to the 2019 version of the renminbi, and the two Winter Olympic banknotes are similar, and the similarities are put together.
1, the "rotten street" of the brilliance of the light change pattern, the use of spark live, linear light band, plus blue to green color change effect.
2, single-sided gravure printing, banknotes only use engraved gravure printing on the front, and only offset printing on the back.
3. Fluorescence effect under ultraviolet lamp. The front has a colorless fluorescent print of the number 20. The back has a pattern printed with colored fluorescent ink.
4. Both sides are coated, which increases the protection of the banknote and improves the resistance to circulation.
The differences in the anti-counterfeiting technology of the two Winter Olympic banknotes
Other security on banknotes:
1, watermark, watermark for high translucent watermark, the effect is still good.
2. Fully buried safety line, consistent with the 2019 version of the RENMINBI.
3. Fluorescent fiber filament of banknotes.
Other security on plastic banknotes:
1, similar to the number 20 of this fully buried safety line, which is magnetic.
2. The miniature effect of the gravure version, part of the double skater pattern is composed of rows of miniature curling, skates and ice hockey clubs.
That's basically all in terms of anti-counterfeiting technology.
Let's take a quick assessment
The test of domestic plastic substrates, from the current point of view, is very successful. The texture, touch and film of plastic banknotes are excellent. With this commemorative banknote of self-made substrate to test the water, it is estimated that the RMB plastic circulation banknote is not far from us~
If you put aside such a point of domestic independent research and development, and then evaluate the anti-counterfeiting technology used in the Winter Olympic banknote, it can be summarized as "relying on this film to support the face". This film I personally subjectively say, may be my domestic plastic substrate requirements are too high, compared to Kurz and other companies' films are still a great distance, and around the plastic substrate and transparent window design of anti-counterfeiting technology is less. There are no highlights in terms of mature anti-counterfeiting.
An excellent banknote, in addition to having an excellent substrate, but also with excellent design and unique and safe anti-counterfeiting features. Plastic Winter Olympic banknotes have been nominated for the best IBNS banknotes, which can see the world's attention and recognition of domestic plastic banknotes, and also shows that what other countries can do, we can Chinese do.
It is hoped that more plastic banknotes can be issued in the future and more new anti-counterfeiting technologies will be developed.
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