High-tech cash: Japan launches banknotes with hologram portraits

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In an attempt to frustrate counterfeiters.

High-tech cash: Japan launches banknotes with hologram portraits
Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to frustrate counterfeiters. The notes use printed patterns to generate holograms of the portraits facing ...

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