New Note and Coin Database for Currency News

The online database that comes free with your subscription to Currency News™ (and its sister publications Coin & Mint News™ and Cash & Payment News™) has changed.

The new database – DataVault – is a proprietary on-line catalogue of all the world’s banknotes and coins, provided by International Reference Systems on a platform created and maintained by Regula. It offers a range of additional and complementary information to the news and analysis provided in the newsletters each month.

Key features of DataVault include:

• more than 1,800 banknotes in use in 220 countries, as well as information on withdrawn banknotes

• high resolution scans of original banknotes

• clear and detailed descriptions of each note, along with images of the front and reverse (under white, UV and IR light) with photographic enlargements of key security features 

• searchable by country, currency and ISO number, with advanced search facility that also enables notes to be searched by date of issue (and withdrawal), size, colour, text and issuing authority

• news of forthcoming issues, as well as most recently-issued notes

• circulating coins with details of colour and composition, year of issue, weight, diameter, edge details

• country sections include additional information data such as travel advice and alternative currencies in use 

• available in multiple languages.