First Legal Tender Banknote with a KURZ THREAD

For more than 30 years, the secure document industry, and banknotes in particular, have become familiar with holographic and other diffractive image security features transferred onto the document via KURZ’s surface applied foils. That same know-how is now being used to produce KURZ THREADS, which carry highly colourful and dynamic imagery provided by the KINEGRAM® technology.

At the beginning of November, Poland’s central bank, Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP), issued a new commemorative banknote celebrating Prof Lech Kaczyński, the former President of the Republic of Poland. The currency issued by the NBP – including collector banknotes and coins – is legal tender in Poland. The new commemorative banknote, limited to 80,000 pieces, is secured with a KURZ THREAD, a windowed-security thread with proprietary KINEGRAM COLORS® structures in a paper substrate.