Banknote Printers & Coin Mints

	Banknote Printers & Coin Mints   Banknote Corporation of America The Perth Mint - Australia Note Printing Australia Limited Bermuda Monetary Authority The British Royal Mint Canadian Bank Note The Royal Canadian Mint China - Chengdu Banknote Printing Complex Croatian Mint The Bank of England - Banknote Printing François-Charles Oberthur (France) Monnaie de Paris - The French Mint Germany - Bundesdruckerei Israel Govt. Coins & Medals Corp. Ltd. The Japanese Mint Reserve Bank of New Zealand Royal Norwegian Mint Portugal - Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, S.A. The Singapore Mint The South African Mint Pobjoy Mint - United Kingdom The United States Mint United States Bureau of Engraving & Printing(BEP) The Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes & Coins - Yugoslavia   Other Printers:   Arjo Wiggins supplies banknote paper for more than 130 countries, and Euro paper to many of the European Central Banks. With 3 banknote paper mills located in France, The Netherlands and Brazil, we guarantee flexibility and know how without any comparison.   Crane and Company - one of Crane & Co.’s early patents, issued in 1844, was for denominating banknotes by embedding parallel silk security threads in the paper. In January of 2002, Crane & Co. acquired AB Tumba Bruk, Tumba, Sweden, paper maker and printer of banknotes and high security documents since 1755.   Giesecke & Devrient prints banknotes and securities, and supplies security paper and banknote processing equipment, as well as complete identification systems and cards and card systems for electronic payment and telecommunications.   Goznak - since 1724, Goznak has had a long and distinguished tradition as a banknote and security printer and a producer of security paper and related products in Russia.    Hologram Industries - founded in 1984, Hologram Industries is a French company specialised in the creation, production and sale of optical security components, most commonly referred to as holograms. H.I. has customers in more than 30 countries and is responsible for the creation of the originations for the high denominations of the newly issued Euro.   Hueck Folien has unrivalled expertise with world-wide technology leadership in the area of high-value security threads for banknotes, securities and documents.   KBA-GIORI is a global supplier of security printing systems serving the banknote industry. Our machines are used in the production of virtually all banknotes in circulation around the world.   Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co. KG - from its beginning as a gold foil producer, it is today a leading manufacturer in the world of security hotstamping foils. Since the start of the security business in the KURZ Group in the early 80s, KURZ has contributed to currency series for 61 countries and more than 150 different banknotes including the Swiss Franc, the Pound Sterling and the EURO by its OVD security products.   Orell Füssli - founded in 1519, is one of the world's oldest printing companies. You'll find the Orell Füssli logo on many of the things that accompany us in our daily life: on books, banknotes, securities and plastic cards.   Papierfabrik Louisenthal - is a world-ranking manufacturer of banknote and security paper. A subsidiary of the Giesecke & Devrient Group, Papierfabrik Louisenthal is sole supplier of banknote paper to the Deutsche Bundesbank. Papierfabrik Louisenthal also supplies banknote and security paper to central banks in more than 80 countries and to many printing works of central banks and security printers all over the world.   SICPA - for 75 years, SICPA has provided security solutions for documents of value of all types, from banknotes to passports to cheques.   Browse Web Sites of Central Banks World Wide

Banknote Printers and their Abbreviations
Printers' names, abbreviations or monograms usually appear as part of a banknote design or below it on either side of a note. The following is a list of current and past bank note printers all over the world and abbreviations of their names which identify printers on bank notes they printed.
Abbreviation		Complete Name of a Bank Note Printer
ABNC		American Bank Note Company (U.S.A.)
BABN(C)		British American Bank Note Co. Ltd. (Canada)
B&S		Bouligny & Schmidt (Mexico)
BEPP		Bureau of Engraving and Printing , Peking (China)
BF		Banque de France (France)
BFL		Barclay & Fry Ltd. (England)
BWC		Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. (England)
CABB		Compania Americana de Billetes de Banco (ABNC)
CBC		Columbian Bank Note Co. (U.S.A.)
CBNC		Canadian Bank Note Company (Canada)
CCBB		Compania Columbiana de Billetes de Banco (CBC)
CdM-		Casa de Moeda (Brazil)
CdM-		Casa de Moneda (Argentina, Chile etc.)
CHB		Chung Hua Book Co. (China)
CMN		Casa de Moneda de la Nacion (Argentina)
CMPA		Commercial Press (China)
CNBB		Compania Nacional de Billetes de Banco (NBNC)
CONB		Continental Bank Note Company (U.S.A.)
CPF		Central Printing Factory (China)
CSABB		Compania Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco (Argentina)
CS&E		Charles Skipper & East (England)
DLR		De La Rue (England)
DTB		Dah Tung Book Co. & Ta Tung Printing (China)
E&C		Evans & Cogwell (C.S.A.)
EAW		E. A. Wright (U.S.A.)
FCOF		Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire (France)
FLBN		Franklin-Lee Bank Note Company (U.S.A.)
FNMT		Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (Spain)
G&D		Giesecke & Devrient (Germany)
HBNC		Hamilton Bank Note Company (U.S.A.)
HKB		Hong Kong Bank Note (Hong Kong)
HKP		Hong Kong Printing Press (Hong Kong)
H&L		Hoyer & Ludwig, Richmond, Virginia (C.S.A.)
HLBNC		Homer Lee Bank Note Co. (U.S.A.)
H&S		Harrison & Sons Ltd. (England)
IBB		Imprenta de Billetes-Bogota (Colombia)
IBSFB		Imprenta de Billetes-Santa Fe de Bogota (Colombia)
IBNC		International Bank Note Company (U.S.A.)
JBNC		Jeffries Bank Note Company (U.S.A.)
JEZ		Johan Enschede en Zonen (Netherlands)
K&B		Keatinge & Ball (C.S.A.)
KBNC		Kendall Bank Note Company, New York (U.S.A.)
LN		Litografia Nacional (Colombia)
NAL		Nissen & Arnold (England)
NBNC		National Bank Note Company (U.S.A.)
OCV		Officina Carte-Valori (Italy)
ODBI		Officina Della Banca d'Italia (Italy)
OFZ		Orell Fussli, Zurich (Switzerland)
P&B		Perkins & Bacon (England)
PBC		Perkins, Bacon & Co. (England)
PB&P		Perkins, Bacon & Petch (England)
SBNC		Security Bank Note Company (U.S.A.)
TDLR		Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited (England)
UPC		Union Printing Co. (China)
UPP		Union Publishers & Printers Fed. Inc. (China)
USBNC		United States Bank Note Corporation (U.S.A.)
WDBN		Western District Bank Note Fed. Inc.
W&S		Waterlow & Sons Ltd. (England)
WPCo		Watson Printing Co. (China)
WWS		W. W. Sprague & Co. Ltd. (England)