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  2. Specimen banknote - Wikipedia

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    Educational notes or School Currency was issued by some schools to teach students to handle money. Play money may resemble real banknotes or be entirely fictitious and would typically be used by children for play, or as promotions or political or commercial advertising, often with additional messages overprinted or printed on one side.

  3. Quantum money - Wikipedia

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    Wiesner's quantum money scheme was first published in 1983. [1] A formal proof of security, using techniques from semidefinite programming, was given in 2013. [2]In addition to a unique serial number on each bank note (these notes are actually more like cheques, since a verification step with the bank is required for each transaction), there is a series of isolated two-state quantum systems. [3]

  4. Paper currency grading - Wikipedia

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    In this grade skilled restoration is often done to preserve rare issues. [2] [3] Some examples might include National gold bank notes: 2 Fair FR Note is mostly intact but can have large pieces torn or missing. Likely problems in this grade include; holes, stains, tears, and splits. Notes in this condition are generally not collectible unless ...

  5. Banknote - Wikipedia

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    This made counterfeiting bank notes harder still, at least in the short term, and in 1803 the number of forged bank notes fell to just 3000, compared to 5000 the previous year. [16] Banks asked skilled engravers and artists to help them make their notes more difficult to counterfeit during the same time period, which historians refer to as "the ...

  6. Banknote processing - Wikipedia

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    The National Bank of Belgium, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank with its participation in Geldservice Austria (GSA) and the Central Bank of Luxembourg [2] apply similar models of the optimized cash cycle. The central banks define the conditions for the recirculation of fit banknotes by the financial institutions.

  7. Glossary of notaphily - Wikipedia

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    A strap is 100 notes banded together, forty straps make a brick. Consists of 4000 notes weighing about 4 kilograms or 8.8 pounds. Broken bank note Currency issued by a now defunct bank. Also referred to as obsolete banknote. Changeover notes A run of notes with a change in signatures, series, or varieties without an interruption in the serial ...

  8. Banker's algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Banker's algorithm is a resource allocation and deadlock avoidance algorithm developed by Edsger Dijkstra that tests for safety by simulating the allocation of predetermined maximum possible amounts of all resources, and then makes an "s-state" check to test for possible deadlock conditions for all other pending activities, before deciding whether allocation should be allowed to continue.

  9. Bank of issue - Wikipedia

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    A bank of issue, also referred to as a note-issuing bank or issuing authority, is a financial institution that issues banknotes. [ 1 ] : 10 The short-lived Stockholms Banco (1657-1667) printed notes from 1661 onwards and is generally viewed as the first-ever bank of issue.