Modernisation announced for Polish banknotes
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
25.09.2013 11:54
From April 2014, Polish banknotes are to contain extra security measures which will make them harder to forge, head of Poland’s central bank, Marek Belka announced on Monday.
Head of the National Bank of Poland, Marek Belka presents the 'new' banknotes which will come into circulation from April 2014. Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz
While the design of the banknotes will not change, extra features, such as an embedded opalescent strip and a white spot which reveals the denomination when the banknote is put up against daylight.
Krzysztof Zarnotal, the chairman of the PWPW Polish Security Printing Works which produces the banknotes, told journalists that Polish notes are already some of the hardest to counterfeit. “The level of forgeries is unbelievably low,” he said.
The changes are to affect all banknotes apart from the 200 zloty note. The changes will incur direct costs amounting to 14 million zloty (3.5 million euro), not including additional costs for institutions which will have to update machinery to check the new notes effectively. (jb)
Spot the difference - the 'new' zloty banknotes to be introduced in 2014. Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz
Source: PAP