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World Money Fair (WMF) Berlin February 1-3, 2011

Royal Canadian Mint/Signoptic Technologies

Coin DNA Technology

Presented by:

Dr. Hieu C. TruongExecutive Director, R&D Centre of ExcellenceRoyal Canadian Mint

Mr. Yann BoutantGeneral Manager, Signoptic Technologies

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

The Royal Canadian Mint in cooperation with Signoptic Technologies has developed a unique process to ensure the security of high value denomination coins. This new method which allows for coin recognition and authentication , at the fine  edge of technology, was filed for worldwide protection and was unveiled at the Singapore TEMAN Conference in Singapore, in May 2011. We would like to take this opportunity to share with you the rapid advances made since then, at this Technical Forum of The 2012 Berlin World Money Fair.

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Prior Art:

•Designs

•Size

•Color

•Geometry

•Metal look and feel

•EMS (vending machines)

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

We introduce the present novel technology, the Digital Non-destructive Activation process in Coin High Security which is taking coin recognition and authentication to new heights : Unitary authentication

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Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Summary of Technology

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

New Innovative Technology Optics: Surface Morphology at macroscopic scale

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

The coin signature has the uniqueness similar to cell DNA

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Digitization

Example of Hexadecimal SignatureA8890B2F2009DBF55EA88C396C8813F760757455F8461BF81D49ACA065E61BFA56810D394F292BFAE1BABC62E9E93BFDB5612668618593F87BA5EBAECE292BF99B53BCACDF96A3FCECD0DDCA99D92BF1938EFFC283D94BFAB5C0CFC75CE67BF9BC46386A48396BFE922360F03938B3F23CFA123387798BF558F83AF24C7A4BF0B21B00ACCA2A3BF4834D87A2E9F823FC232A26B37075F3FD82122F187E88DBFFF490F99F0D9A73FAB10C829E405823FFA99124F5D99963F3BA5E6829A19A4BF606B01278367923FBDD6BE4728E6823FC97D9B5525FFA33FB25067AC09E99B3F4FC454C025457FBF703D14A84C64A53F89100C086A4EA2BFFCFC36818F3683BFBB6BE0E8E16B81BF7D6E7857546BA9BF6D2CE7EEB459943FFB8028C1CF068EBFB6B70D7D2668A2BFD9DFCA74D359633FBBBCEC2248259B3F179B424A1DD291BF2ACBA21573859CBF249F4F82C2789ABF40845261ACE077BFBD0467B82E1C7ABFAE040CEFE37F7D3F174D8A7BECD2AE3F0C2B1699982494BF43866EC5F2CE843F54D1DB51B1AF82BF25A81571A19262BFBCB01B71B742A2BF62B51BA19C6778BFD438949587F8933FBFE980CADA2CB1BF40ECA1588700403F9AA77B497482AF3F09E203267E298EBFBA4853F80BCC9FBFBABD885968D59E3FC9F58CD786BB6DBF0A71894ACC31833F17D33DF507598D3F265008EFA2D384BF9DB9F0E611AA81BFF529FD481E528EBF12C17DE4581D763F48F9345AFBE9A2BF1C69970C93D280BF46B5363DF037A0BFF94C2EC80DF957BFA36A9BEA78BDB0BF44A66F6A92CF6E3F8C37A5A1D5EF953FC1B5922A9FE592BF8ABB12B691249A3F00161F904D10423F46E5A2EC946E80BFD680C1A02646A2BF49473F52A622A4BF51E89ACA768492BFB859C7FB552A79BF9A7A63A47E1E9A3FA447ABEA1FC9783FA7125B38F4839ABFFE92EBC00CE08FBF9589AE3257F490BFF9AEB8430E077EBF483DE9B53C4B74BFC54492B81E2787BFE6F6EF162C90B0BF9799C7BFACF295BFF2E8C08999708C3FC8A260B183958A3F47271661E8D074BFF5746260E42C94B

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Principles: A state of the art technology to:

A. Register

1) By identifying, recognizing the unique areas of interest.

2) Activating those areas by exciting physical characteristics with a specially designed sensor system

3) Calculating and transforming certain features into digital codes.

4) Registering those codes as the unitary signature of the coin.

5) Storing the signatures of the coins in a central database for future data searching and matching.

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Principles: A state of the art technology to:

A. Register

6) By recognizing the coin, later on and generating its signature through the same areas of interest characteristics and same process.

7) Searching for a match of the candidate signature in the central database.

8) Authenticating the coin as genuine or rejecting the coin because it is false or inappropriate, not fit for use.

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Signature Generation

Small areas at the discretion of Mint, on both sides of the coin

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Components of Signature

1) Common Identifiers2) Uncommon component: random and stable

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Signature Generation

Small areas at the discretion of Mint, on both sides of the coin

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

General Principles of Innovation Overview

- Coin Identity Registration Phase- Coin Identity Authentication Phase

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Applications

• Circulation Coins

• Numismatic Coins

• Precious Metals Coins, Wafers and Bullion

• Security Tokens

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Level of Automation

• Manual: Table top model built for small operations of registration and authentication

• New Application: The manual model can be used as a :

- Quality control tool to be used in the pressroom to verify that all details of the struck coin are up and comparable to the sample coin.

- This instrument gives an objective assessment of quality and not a subjective assessment; it is not dependent on human eye evaluation.

- One unit is being built for the Royal Canadian Mint for use in Winnipeg for Canadian and Foreign circulation coins quality control.

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Level of Automation

Industrial machine for Central Banks and Mints

First High Speed Machine for registration of coins commissioned at the Winnipeg facilities of the Royal Canadian Mint in July 2011 .

   -   Registration speed: 400 coins per minute.

Second High Speed Machine for registration and authentication of coins commissioned at the Royal Canadian Mint in November 2011.

   - Registration speed: over 700 coins per minute   - Authentication speed: over 400 coins per minute

To meet the demand of coin registration for foreign circulation coin business the Royal Canadian Mint is building four more High Speed machines to be commissioned in April 2012.

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Views of equipment built for coin registration and coin authentication

Royal Canadian Mint, Winnipeg, Canada

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Views of equipment built for coin registration and coin authentication

Royal Canadian Mint, Winnipeg, Canada

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Views of equipment built for coin registration and coin authentication

Royal Canadian Mint, Winnipeg, Canada

Royal Canadian Mint /Signoptic Technologies Coin DNA Technology

Launching of Technology

New Canadian $1 and $2 multi-ply plated steel coins will have the DNA technology as a security feature

World’s First Coins with DNA Technology

Contact information:

Dr. Hieu C. Truong

Executive Director, R&D Centre of Excellence

truong@mint.ca

Mr. Yann Boutant

General Manager, Signoptic Technologies

Yann.boutant@signoptic.com

THANK YOU