KYRGYZ REPUBLIC BANKNOTE USES MOTION SURFACE

Crane Currency’s first banknote with Motion Surface, a new micro-optics security feature was issued on Friday by a country in central Asia.

Motion Surface, made at Crane Currency’s Nashua plant, incorporates three dimensionality and fluid movement.

The company’s first banknote with the new anti-counterfeiting feature was printed as a commemorative banknote issued by the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan. It is also the country’s first currency printed in vertical orientation rather than horizontal.

“We are thrilled. This new product is very well received from the marketplace,” Stephen DeFalco, CEO of Crane Currency, said on Friday.

The Kyrgyz Republic’s 2,000 som commemorative banknote celebrates the 25-year anniversary of the independence of the Kyrgyz Republic and the establishment of its national currency.

The Motion Surface micro-optic security feature cannot be replicated, according to DeFalco. “This family of products has the strongest anti-counterfeiting method in the country today,” he said.

DeFalco could not comment on how many commemorative banknotes were printed for the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan, but said the 2,000 som denomination equates to about $28 in American money.

Motion Surface is the newest of three anti-counterfeiting products produced by Crane. The company has been working on it for about four years, DeFalco said.

Crane Currency supplies banknotes for central banks all over the world and has continually supplied the United States Treasury with its currency paper since 1879.

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