Electronic Sorting Marks

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This message aims at: requesting a new tag

Status: Rejected
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Between 1967 and 1983, Scottish £1 and £5 notes featured electronic sorting marks on their reverses (see here for an example). As far as I know, these are unique to Scotland but, if anyone else knows of any similar marks on other notes, could we please add a tag for these marks? If it's just Scotland, it isn't necessary but, if this was done elsewhere, it would be useful to link them.
Former Numista referee for banknotes from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Saint Helena.
There are a dozen of security features you might not or outright can't see but machines do. Like magnetic shapes, UV prints, hidden patterns etc. so I doubt these notes are unique in that sense. But you can always write something interesting in the comment-sections.
I don't think these were security features, rather they allowed machines to identify and sort the differenct denominations, like a bar code.
Former Numista referee for banknotes from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Saint Helena.
Status changed to Rejected (pejounet, 25 Şub 2022, 05:56)

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