RollingStar LEAD

Product Owner: Louisenthal

Description

RollingStar LEAD
RollingStar® LEAD won the IACA Housenote Award in 2017, and has now been issued in a fully-featured banknote in Armenia. RollingStar® LEAD is an advanced banknote security foil, so intuitive that it ensures immediate recognition due to the multiple eye-catching OVD effects. With its striking, animated stripe, RollingStar® LEAD opens a new dimension of foil elements utilizing the proven micro-mirror technology of Louisenthal’s security threads.

An excellent example of the new wave of attractive and secure Level 1 features. This feature has outstanding and eye-catching visibility under every light condition. High propensity for the public to authenticate their banknotes, due to:

  • highly dynamic effect
  • reflective image
  • high gloss depicting value of gold
  • strongly defined colourshift
  • large surface area
  • 3D image depth; and
  • easly recognisable and memorable image.

Depicts a full-image size simultaneously sliding translucent screen, with an inward and outward left to right movement effect (on the ark-wood plate) behind the cross. In tilting transition this changes from gold to green. The cross has distinctive raised dome gems on it.
Ark-wood plate and cross are created by using an attractive and counterfeit resilient combination of special micro mirrors, covered with thin film colour shift effect gold to green. Above and below the wood plate are delicate holographic effects under the intaglio print of the surrounding window frame.

Issuer and Denominations

Central Bank of Armenia 500 Dram Noah’s Ark Collector Banknote

Date of Issue or Release

Banknote was issued 22.11.2017 and is legal tender

Uniqueness

No other foil has this combination of micro mirror technology offering these dynamics, colourshift and 3D

Depicts a full-image size simultaneously sliding translucent screen, with an inward and outward left to right movement effect (on the ark-wood plate) behind the cross. In tilting transition this changes from gold to green. The cross has distinctive raised dome gems on it.
Ark-wood plate and cross are created by using an attractive and counterfeit resilient combination of special micro mirrors, covered with thin film colour shift effect gold to green. Above and below the wood plate are delicate holographic effects under the intaglio print of the surrounding window frame.

Differentiation of new feature, product, or innovation from existing ones

New generation of proven LEAD holographic technology. Around 4,000,000 tiny mirrors are precisely aligned on a surface area of one square centimetre and individually angled to create the travelling reflection. The logic of the individual angles of the mirrors is calculated using specially developed software and brought to life with a new origination method. The colour shift properties are created by Thin Film technology.

Improved security

RollingStar® LEAD takes foils and holograms to the next level. With the inherent micro mirror technology with around 4 million synchronised plates it enables brilliant dynamics which is extremely difficult to counterfeit. The combination of holographics with micro mirror and ColourShift thin film technology in an integrated feature design represents a
considerable counterfeit barrier. The security of RollingStar® LEAD can be further enhanced by a transparent primer visible under ultraviolet light only, which repeats motifs or text elements of the stripe and/or banknote.

Important Improvement

RollingStar® LEAD has greater design flexibility, As it can be applied as a stripe, it is more flexible than the constraints of a thread, and can be much larger, allowing for greater design options with enhanced visibility. Such effects are possible on RollingStar® LEAD which are not possible due to space limitation on threads.

Feedback from Stakeholders, Including the General Public

The market is responding positively. Central Bank of Armenia is the first customer and they are delighted with the result. Several more customers have ordered RollingStar® LEAD for issue in mid to late 2018. Feedback from industry has been extremely positive

Awards | Technical Awards 2018

Category:

Best New Currency Feature or Product

Status:

Finalist