Despite the increasing use of electronic payments, currency retains an important role in the payments system of every country. Two aspects of currency usage drive currency design worldwide: deterring counterfeiting and making paper currency accessible to the visually impaired. Further, among the...

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Box -- Summary -- 1 Background and Overview -- 2 Counterfeiting Technology Trends -- 3 A Systems Approach to the Counterfeiting Threat -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Appendix B Features of Current U....

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Confidence and the Currency -- 1. Bordering on Alchemy -- 2. Cogniac Street Capitalism -- 3. The Bank Wars -- 4. The Western Bankers -- 5. Passing and Detecting -- 6. Ghosts in the Machine -- 7. Banking on the Nation -- Epilogue: Confidence in the Country --...