ebrati el ng C CANADIAN 50 COIN NEWS YEARS Volume 51 • Number 07 July 16 - 29, 2013 $3.50 Fakers trying their hand at polymer notes: RCMP Counterfeiters are already Included among the fakes trying their hand at making are copies of the $100 note, but fake polymer notes, with more they are lacking the intaglio Photo courtesy Royal Canadian Mint than 50 notes already seized, printing, and the fine details according to the RCMP. of the flag and rooftop of Par- Police spokesman Sgt. Dun- liament’s East Block tower can Pond said many people, shown in the hologram, as confident of the security of the well as the number 100 printed new notes, have not been several times inside the clear checking security features. window. While some of the fakes are The number of known being printed on polymer, notes is small compared with some fakers have been pro- the estimated 500 million ducing bogus notes with the polymer notes currently in Paul Lefebvre, Project Lead, Plating Expansion and Brad Penner, Director, Technical new design, but using paper circulation. Operations, standing in front of the newly expanded plating facility in Winnipeg. rather than polymer sub- In a recent report, the Bank strate. of Canada said that counter- “Please don’t stop looking feiting rates have dropped 92 just because we have the best per cent since the introduction Mint expands plating plant, notes in the world,” he said. of polymer notes. W opens research facility By Bret Evans ing opportunities to market The tri-plated coins are a n June 13, the Royal Cana- our proprietary technologies process of sandwiching a steel dian Mint opened its latest and processes,” said Ian Ben- core with different layers of expansionsO in Winnipeg: an ex- nett, master of the Royal Ca- copper, nickel or brass. The panded plating plant, and the nadian Mint said. “The ex- process produces durable Hieu C. Truong Centre of Excel- pansion of our plating facility coins, while varying the indi- supports the growth of the vidual layers allows the Mint lence for Research and Devel- The new $100 note is already being faked. opment. Mint’s foreign business as a to control the electromagnetic The plating plant will in- key priority as we pursue the signature of each coin denom- crease the Mint’s capacity to objective to own 15 per cent ination, making the coins have the correct size, shape, opment of new technologies, produce tri-plated blanks by a of global market share by harder to counterfeit than and weight. but will be able to produce further two billion pieces per 2020.” solid alloy or mono-plated Each denomination in a coin samples of specific products year. Construction of the 70,000- coins. Coin acceptance ma- series can have a distinctive for foreign customers to re- The centre will “double the square-foot expansion began in chines can be configured to electromagnetic signature. view before setting up full Mint’s capacity to innovate the fall of 2011, and cost an esti- detect theCCC1212002 signature BuyingEventAd_Dec3.pdf and reject The 1 new03/12/12 research 1:39 PM centre production. and will open new and excit- mated $60 million. coins without it, even if they will not only allow the devel- Continued on page 13 Canadian Coin and Currency A new Deal of the Week launches every Monday at 9 am on Canada’s www.canadiancoinnews.caC largest coin e-commerce site M www.cdncoin.com. Every week, Canadian Coin NewsY Deal of a select item or group of items is CM offered from our extensive inventory An essential resource MY of over 15,000 coins and bank notes. for the advanced the Week Shop early. 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