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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.


Prior Art:

•Designs

•Size

•Color

•Geometry

•Metal look and feel

•EMS (vending machines)


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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Summary of Technology


New Innovative Technology Optics: Surface Morphology at macroscopic scale


The coin signature has the uniqueness similar to cell DNA


Digitization

Example of Hexadecimal Signature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


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.


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.


Signature Generation

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


Components of Signature

1) Common Identifiers2) Uncommon component: random and stable


Signature Generation

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


General Principles of Innovation Overview

- Coin Identity Registration Phase- Coin Identity Authentication Phase


Applications

• Circulation Coins

• Numismatic Coins

• Precious Metals Coins, Wafers and Bullion

• Security Tokens


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.


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.


Views of equipment built for coin registration and coin authentication

Royal Canadian Mint, Winnipeg, Canada


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

[email protected]

Mr. Yann Boutant

General Manager, Signoptic Technologies

[email protected]

THANK YOU

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