2008 Winners

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Called by some “The Oscars of the Currency Industry” the individuals and companies honoured with 2008 Awards for Excellence in Currency were announced on 14 October at the Currency Conference in Prague.

The awards, which are sponsored by Currency News, are designed to promote excellence in currency, in currency production, processing, management and distribution and are open to any organization or individual products and systems of the currency industry, as well as issuing authorities, commercial banks and enforcement agencies.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Winner: Antti Heinonen, Director of Banknotes, European Central Bank

BEST NEW BANKNOTE
Winner: Central Bank of Venezuela for the new Strong Bolivar series
Runners up: Czech National Bank for the CZK1,000
Bank of Papua New Guinea for the 5 and 10 Kina

BEST NEW COIN
Winner: Royal Mint for the new British coin series
Runners up: Canadian Mint for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics collection
South African Mint for the Nelson Mandela 5 Rand

BEST NEW CURRENCY FEATURE
Winner: SICPA for SPARK
Runners up : Louisenthal for Pole
Oberthur Technologies for FCO Iriseal

BEST NEW CURRENCY PROCESS OR SYSTEM
Winner: Goznak for its new thread embedding process
Runners-up: National Bank of Belgium for the CashSSP platform
Loomis for the taggants used in its iBox cash protection systems

BEST PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
Winner: Bank of Canada
Runners up: Hong Kong Monetary Authority
US Bureau of Engraving & Printing

BEST CURRENCY WEBSITE
Winner: US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
Runners up: Royal Mint
Bank of Ghana