Kinebar
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Akinebaris agold barthat has adiffractive optically variable image device(similar to asecurity hologram)em Boss edinto the surface of the gold. The device used is a "Kinegram" made by OVD Kinegram AG (Switzerland).[1]The Kinegram technology is exclusively provided to governments,[2]and is intended both as a high-security feature and for visual appeal.
Union Bank of Switzerland,through Argor-HeraeusSA (subsidiary of Commerzbank), has been applying the kinegram as a security device to the reverse of its minted bars since December 1993. The kinebar, now produced byUBS AG,is a registered trade mark of UBS.[3]
Argor-Heraeus gold Kinebars were introduced in 1994 in the following weights - 1 g, 2 g, 5 g, 10 g, 20 g, and 1 oz. The 50 g and 100 g gold Kinebars were subsequently released in 2012.[4]
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[edit]- ^"Disclaimer".kinegram.Retrieved2020-05-10.
- ^"Why the KINEGRAM is not a security hologram".kinegram.Retrieved2023-05-23.
- ^"New gold kinebar unveiled in the United States; Advanced high-tech security feature marks breakthrough in gold minting"Archived2010-04-26 at theWayback Machine,press release, Dec 6, 1995
- ^"Argor-Heraeus SA"(PDF).Gold Bars Worldwide.2014.
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