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Chander S Jeena

22 June 2025

3 min read

Innovative New Features for Commemoratives

The Royal Mint has unveiled a ground-breaking addition to its bullion portfolio with the launch of the new secure Britannia bullion bar. Security features previously exclusive to its world-renowned coins have been rolled out into its gold bar range for the first time.

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Alex Sadler

27 May 2025

4 min read

ABC Enhances Traceability, Launches New Astral Collection

ABC Refinery has announced its adoption of the ProvCheck app, allowing customers to authenticate the provenance of its ABC Bullion gold bars. Currently compatible with numbered 1kg ABC Bullion gold bars, the app enables customers to scan their bars and unlock the mine-to-market history of the product, including the gold’s origin and attributable carbon emissions.

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Chander S Jeena

3 July 2024

2 min read

A New Approach for Detecting Counterfeit Coins

Researchers at the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada have utilised image-mining techniques and machine learning algorithms to identify flaws in counterfeit coins, enabling greater detection of fakes.

Authentication Technology

Alex Sadler

4 April 2024

3 min read

Anti-Counterfeiting and Traceability Updates

The Central Bank of Kosovo has released details of its efforts to fight counterfeit currency, noting that it had successfully coordinated inter-institutional meetings to design and implement effective strategies to combat the circulation of counterfeit coins, especially €2 coins.

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Astrid Mitchell

5 Oct. 2023

1 min read

New Service for Note and Coin Authentication

Dr Tomasz Jagielinski has embarked on a new endeavour by forming NXTGenDetect, LLC, a company that will specialise in providing comprehensive consulting and advisory services in the field of security, detection, and authentication, focusing on banknotes, coins, and other high- value items.

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Astrid Mitchell

3 Sept. 2023

1 min read

Tracking, Certifying and Verifying Gold

Brazilian gold aggregator Fênix DTVM, in partnership with company Minespider, has completed their first phase of a gold traceability project in Brazil.

Authentication

Astrid Mitchell

3 Aug. 2023

4 min read

New Traceability and Authentication Technologies

As technology evolves, so do the methods used by counterfeiters and other bad actors in attempting to circumvent any new features put in place to ensure the authenticity and traceability of products. This is particularly true in the currency industries and, most relevant here, in the case of precious metals and numismatic products.

Authentication Technology

Chander S Jeena

6 July 2023

3 min read

Casa da Moeda to Launch Gold Traceability Platform

Leondaro Abdias, Director of Innovation and Market at the Brazilian mint, Casa da Moeda do Brasil, announced measures to combat illegal gold trade in Brazil during an event held in May titled ‘Ways of Gold: the Importance of Traceability to Prevent Illegality and Irregular Extraction’.

Authentication Metals

Astrid Mitchell

6 March 2023

6 min read

Countering the Counterfeiters

Counterfeiting is nothing new – indeed it has often been called the world’s second oldest profession. Counterfeiting of money has been going on ever since the invention of physical money in around the 6th century BC.

Authentication Metals

Alex Sadler

11 Oct. 2022

2 min read

SICPA Protects Indonesian Gold with BullionProtect®

SICPA has recently extended its operations into the gold market with the launch of BullionProtect®, which is now being used by Indonesian bullion producer Hartadinata to provide more confidence in gold bar trading.

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Latest News

Innovative New Features for Commemoratives

ABC Enhances Traceability, Launches New Astral Collection

A New Approach for Detecting Counterfeit Coins

Anti-Counterfeiting and Traceability Updates

New Service for Note and Coin Authentication

Tracking, Certifying and Verifying Gold

New Traceability and Authentication Technologies

Casa da Moeda to Launch Gold Traceability Platform

Countering the Counterfeiters

SICPA Protects Indonesian Gold with BullionProtect®

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