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Durable banknotes strategies and their ability to resist soiling and Dirtiness

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Banknotes are widely exchanged for goods and services worldwide. During its circulation, it can get contaminated by money counting machines, atmosphere, dust, soil, storage process or during usage. soiling level is considered the most predominant reason for classifying notes as defective, so soiling reduction should be the first aim of developing more durable banknotes. Many countries begin to apply clean note policy, because it represents the country's development level in the economy and the culture.This study has performed to compare between Anti – Soiling Banknotes Paper strategy ( Egyptian 10 pounds ), Banknotes Varnishes strategy ( 5 Euro ), Polymer Banknotes strategy ( 10 sterling pounds ) against contaminates. This study recommended that substrate alternative solutions are needed and the Egyptian  banknotes substrate has to be converted to one of the strategies that resist, oil, sweat and light, such as polymer banknotes, or it also can be post coated by varnish (conventional – antibacterial) in order to reduce contamination and increase its lifetime

DOI

10.21608/idj.2021.180886

Keywords

Banknotes, Soiling, Light fastness, Polymer Banknotes

Authors

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Al-Agouz

MiddleName

Abdel-Hamid

Affiliation

Professor of Control and Quality Control, Department of Printing, Publishing and Packaging, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt

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dr_monaelagoz@yahoo.com

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First Name

George

Last Name

Simonian

MiddleName

Nubar

Affiliation

Dean of the Faculty of Design & Creative Arts, Ahram Canadian University.

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george@nubar.net

City

ِِEgypt

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Hasanin

MiddleName

Sayed

Affiliation

Cellulose and paper department, National Research Centre, sido_sci@yahoo.com

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sido_sci@yahoo.com

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elleboudy

MiddleName

Atta Fatouh

Affiliation

Designer, Banknote Printing House – Central Bank of Egypt, a3ttacbe@yahoo.com

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a3ttacbe@yahoo.com

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11

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4

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26056

Issue Date

2021-07-01

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2021-02-15

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2021-07-01

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103

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112

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2090-9632

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2090-9640

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1,217

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International Design Journal

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https://idj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Durable banknotes strategies and their ability to resist soiling and Dirtiness

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22 Jan 2023