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Index

Essentials

Security

Durability

Cost-effectiveness

Processability

Anti-polymer papers

Archives

Other

 

Essentials

New developments

News on the current paper-issuing countries that are likely to convert or are discussing about converting to polymer.

 

Promotional notes

Promotional notes on polymer substrates; by various printers.

 

Promotional prints

Promotional prints on polymer substrates.

 

Proof notes

Proof notes on polymer substrates.

 

Straus reference

A detailed presentation of the Straus reference.

 

Warning

Improper, misleading, and fraudulent practices involving polymer bank notes. Includes information on counterfeited and doctored/tampered bank notes.

 

Security

A paradigm shift in bank note security: security features in polymer bank notes

By Ronald G. Gration; Securency.

 

Australia's counterfeiting experience

By Les Coventry; November 1998.

 

GuardianTM Substrate as an optical medium for security devices

By Bruce Hardwick and Ana Ghioghiu; NPA; 2004.

 

Effectiveness of public security and features on bank notes

By Brian Lang; April 2002.

 

Improving bank notes for better counterfeit detection in note acceptor/validator machines

Improving bank notes for better counterfeit detection in note acceptor/validator machines

By Peter Carlin; April 2002.

 

Introduction of new bank note security features using a quality system approach

By Dr B A Hardwick and D Reid.

 

Plastic currency offers additional deterrents to PC counterfeiting

Protection Points, Issue 6, 2002, a publication of Banknote Corporation of America, Inc.

 

Polymer notes and recent counterfeiting experience in Australia

By John Colditz; December 1997.

 

Durability

Fitness detection for polymer bank notes

By John Taylor; October 1996.

 

Life of polymer currency notes–a study

Life of polymer currency notes–a study

By Les Coventry; November 2001.

 

Note sorting guide

A guide for classifying mutilated Australian polymer notes.

 

Polymer note fitness detector

By John Colditz; December 1997.

 

Polymer notes and the meaning of life

By Les Coventry; April 2001.

 

Cost-effectiveness

Cost-effectiveness of polymer currency notesAustralia's experience

Cost-effectiveness of polymer currency notesAustralia's experience

By Les Coventry; November 2001.

 

Processability

Changes to Australia's note processing and distribution arrangements

By Les Coventry; October 1999.

 

Changes to cash distribution and processing arrangements in Australia

By Les Coventry; September 1999.

  

Currency note processing and distribution arrangements in Australia

By Peter Carlin; May 2004.

 

Processing: issues in central banks

The Reserve Bank of Australia's experience. By Peter Carlin; October 1999.

 

Recent developments in Australia in currency note processing and distribution arrangements

By Peter Carlin; April 2001.

 

Anti-polymer papers

Anti-polymer propaganda

This archive comprises five PDF documents that contain anti-polymer propaganda.

 

Manufacturing banknotes: paper beats plastic

GD's comparison (arguing against polymer bank notes) of paper and plastic bank notes (2001).

 

Mould-made cotton bank note paper and plastic substrate alternatives

TDLR's comparison (arguing against polymer bank notes) of paper and plastic bank notes (1997).

 

Archives

Currency note research and development projectguide to records

Commonwealth Scientific, Industrial, and Research Organisation, Division of Chemicals and Polymers.

 

Noteworthy newsletters

Newsletters and tenders of Note Printing Australia.

 

IPCA newsletters

Newsletters of the International Polymer Currency Association.

 

RBA's reports on NPA and Securency

Reserve Bank of Australia's Board reports and financial statements on NPA and Securency.

 

Other

Advantages of long term contracts for bank notes and substrates (a strategic focus for bank note and coin issue)

By Brian Lang, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 2005.

 

Book review: World Polymer Banknotes (1st edition)

A review of a book on polymer bank notes by Peter Eu, Ben Chiew, Julian Chee (2005); reviewed by Stane Štraus.

 

Chatham Islands Dollars

Chatham Islands Dollars, a monopoly money on plastic without any legal tender status. By Štane Straus.

 

Customer reaction to millennium $10 note

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's research.

 

DuraNoteinformation sheet

Promotional material on DuraNote.

 

Error bank notes

Descriptions and images of error bank notes. By Stane Štraus.

 

First paper-based bank note with see-through window presented

A press release by Giesecke & Devrient of Varifeye® bank note technology. 2005.

 

Information on Tyvek® by du Pont

A description of Tyvek®'s properties and possible uses for that material.

 

Picture overview of polymer bank note issues

 

Polymer bank notes

Article featured in the RBNZ Bulletin (Vol. 62, No. 2, June 1999); by Brian Lang and John Barry.

 

 Polymer bank notesAustralia's experience

By Les Coventry; June 1997. 

 

Polymer bank notes in Australia–10 years on

By John Taylor, RBA; 2002.

 

Polymer bank notesthe New Zealand experience

Article featured in the RBNZ Bulletin (Vol. 65, No. 1, March 2002); by Brian Lang.

 

  Polymer notes–a chronology of developments in their issue

NPA notes, and some others, from 1988 to 2001 and beyond, by Trevor Wilkin.

 

Polymer notesan update

By Les Coventry; September 1999.

 

Polymer notes—the complete package

By Les Coventry; November 1998.

 

PolyTeQ® Services

A promotional leaflet of PolyTeQ® Services.

 

The development of latent fingerprints on polymer bank notes

A paper given at the 13th Interpol Forensic Science Symposium, 2001.

 

The future for polymer bank notes

By John Colditz.

 

The future is now

Article by Wendell Wolka in Paper Money Values (Spring 2006, Vol. 2., No. 1)

 

The polymer note story—R&D lessons learnt

By Note Printing Australia; 30.04.03.

 

The wider community benefits of polymer notes

By John Colditz and John Taylor; April 1998.

 

Ty vek or not ty vek? Is that the issue?

Trevor Wilkin discusses the ABNC Tyvek® notes and the early NPA notes.

 

World Polymer Banknotes (2nd edition)

A book on polymer bank notes by Peter Eu, Ben Chiew, Stane Štraus (2007).