Banknote Printers
Explore banknote printers and security printing institutions behind the production of the world’s banknotes. This index brings together state printing works, central-bank production facilities, and specialist security printers, connecting each institution with the banknotes it has produced and the monetary systems it has served.
Printer attribution adds another layer to understanding a banknote. Across different countries and series, production may move between institutions, technologies, and printing arrangements, while individual printers can become closely associated with particular periods, issuers, or approaches to security printing.
This section allows collectors to look beyond the issuing authority and trace the physical production of banknotes — exploring the institutions, production histories, and related notes that form part of the WorldBanknotes.eu catalogue.
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American Bank Note Company
United States
Private security engraving and printing company
Historic banknote printer; corporate lineage continues as ABCorp
American Bank Note Company occupies a central place in the visual history of paper money. Formed in 1858 from the consolidation of leading American engraving houses,…
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Banco Central del Ecuador
Ecuador
Central bank and former in-house banknote printer
Active central bank; historic domestic banknote-printing attribution ended with the sucre
Banco Central del Ecuador stands at the meeting point of monetary authority and late-sucre banknote production. Founded in Quito in 1927 to unify Ecuador’s fragmented issuing…
Banco de México
Mexico
Central-bank issuer and in-house banknote printer
Active central-bank banknote printer
Banco de México is unusual in the printer field because it is both the country’s issuing central bank and, from 1969 onward, an in-house banknote producer.…
Bank of Finland Printing Works and Setec
Finland
Historical central-bank security printing works and corporatised successor
Historical under the Bank of Finland name; production continued through successor Setec Oy
The Bank of Finland Printing Works created Finland’s domestic banknote-production tradition from 1885, with the operation incorporated into Setec Oy in 1991 during the final markka…
Bank of Greece Printing Works
Greece
In-house central-bank security printer and national mint
Active as the Bank of Greece Printing Works and National Mint
The Bank of Greece Printing Works was established before the Second World War to give Greece domestic banknote-production capacity. Although its building was completed in 1941,…
Bank of Thailand Note Printing Works
Thailand
Central-bank-owned banknote printing works
Active
The Bank of Thailand Note Printing Works is the institution through which Thailand turned the memory of wartime banknote scarcity into lasting production sovereignty. Authorised in…
Bank of the Lao P.D.R. Printing House
Laos
In-house central-bank printing house and organisational unit equivalent to a department
Active; listed by the Bank of the Lao PDR as a current organisational unit equivalent to a department
The Printing House of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R. is the central bank’s in-house secure-printing unit and a documented printer of selected Lao kip issues.…
Banknote Factory of the National Bank of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
State banknote and high-security printing enterprise
Active
Kazakhstan’s Banknote Factory transformed a newly independent currency system into a domestic high-security industry, producing tenge banknotes and a broad range of protected state documents.
Banknote Printing and Minting Works of the National Bank of Ukraine
Ukraine
In-house central-bank banknote printing and minting complex
Active
The Banknote Printing and Minting Works of the National Bank of Ukraine provides the country’s integrated domestic production of banknotes, coins and security materials. It became…
Banque de France
France
Public central bank with integrated banknote-paper and banknote-manufacturing operations
Active; transfer to a new Vic-le-Comte printing works is in progress
Banque de France combines central-bank authority with one of Europe’s largest integrated banknote-manufacturing operations, linking EuropaFi paper production to high-volume printing and security research.
Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran
India
Wholly owned central-bank subsidiary and banknote printer
Active
Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited is the Reserve Bank of India’s dedicated banknote-manufacturing subsidiary. Incorporated in 1995 to close the gap between India’s growing…
Bradbury Wilkinson & Co.
Great Britain
Private commercial banknote engraver and high-security printer
Historical; acquired by De La Rue in 1986 and banknote-printing operations ended around 1990
Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. was one of Britain’s major commercial banknote engravers, exporting highly finished intaglio currency designs from the Victorian period until its absorption into…
British American Bank Note Company
Canada
Private commercial banknote engraver and security printer
Historical; BA International closed its Ottawa security-printing operation in 2012
The British American Bank Note Company was a foundational Canadian security printer, shaping federal and Bank of Canada currency through engraving, design and production from 1866…
Bundesdruckerei
Germany
Federal high-security printer and technology company
Active
Bundesdruckerei is Germany’s federally owned high-security printer, linking a banknote-production tradition established in the nineteenth century with contemporary security design and industrial quality control.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
United States
Government security printer
Active
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is the United States government’s currency manufacturer, translating Federal Reserve orders into engraved notes at Washington and Fort Worth.
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Canadian Bank Note Company
Canada
Private banknote printer and security-technology company
Active
Canadian Bank Note Company combines more than a century of currency production with modern security technology, serving the Bank of Canada and issuing authorities abroad.
Casa da Moeda do Brasil
Brazil
Federal public mint, banknote printer and high-security document manufacturer
Active
Casa da Moeda do Brasil combines a minting history founded in 1694 with a modern Santa Cruz industrial complex producing banknotes, coins, passports and other high-security…
Casa de la Moneda de Venezuela
Venezuela
Central-bank mint and banknote/security printer
Active industrial unit of the Banco Central de Venezuela for coinage, banknotes and other valued/security print products
Casa de la Moneda de Venezuela (CMV) is the Banco Central de Venezuela’s currency-production complex in Maracay, Aragua. BCV financial statements published in the Official Gazette…
Casa de Moneda Argentina
Argentina
State-owned security printer and mint
Active; undergoing state-directed structural and operational reconfiguration
Casa de Moneda Argentina links the country’s monetary history to a state security-printing operation whose work has ranged from coinage and fiscal printing to complete domestic…
Casa de Moneda de Chile
Chile
State-owned mint and high-security printing company
Active
Casa de Moneda de Chile developed from an eighteenth-century mint into a state security manufacturer whose modern banknote line serves Chilean and international central-bank programmes.
Central Bank of Egypt Printing House
Egypt
In-house central-bank banknote printing works
Active
The Central Bank of Egypt Printing House brought large-scale Egyptian banknote production into the country during the 1960s. From its first production in 1967, it developed…
Central Engraving and Printing Plant
Taiwan
Central-bank-supervised security printing plant
Active
The Central Engraving and Printing Plant is Taiwan’s principal state security printer and the manufacturer of New Taiwan dollar banknotes. Directly supervised by the Central Bank…
CETIS d.d.
Slovenia
Private security printer and secure identity-management provider
Active
CETIS is a Slovenian security printer whose place in banknote history rests above all on the provisional payment notes that carried the newly independent republic into…
China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation
China
State-owned integrated currency-design, banknote-printing, minting and cash-technology group
Active
China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation is the industrial system behind the renminbi, integrating design, printing, paper, inks, security threads, minting equipment and cash-lifecycle technology under…
Ciccone Calcográfica
Argentina
Former private commercial security printer, later a state-controlled banknote-production plant
Closed; banknote production ceased on 31 October 2024 and the Don Torcuato plant was definitively closed in November 2024
Ciccone Calcográfica moved from private security printing into Argentina’s state production structure, leaving a banknote record shaped as much by corporate and legal change as by…
Ciccone S.A.
Argentina
Commercial security printer
Historical printer name; current independent status not established
Ciccone S.A. is the printer credited on selected South American banknotes, including Uruguay’s 200-nuevos-pesos issue of 1986. The name belongs to Argentina’s private security-printing history, but…
Crane Currency
United States
Private commercial banknote printer, designer and security-materials supplier
Active
Crane Currency combines American banknote-paper heritage, Swedish papermaking and design expertise, and modern commercial banknote printing at its Malta facility.
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Danmarks Nationalbank Banknote Printing Works
Denmark
Former in-house central-bank banknote printing works
Historic; banknote production outsourced after 2016
Danmarks Nationalbank’s former Banknote Printing Works was the industrial heart of Danish paper money for almost a century. The central bank had held the monopoly of…
Dar As-Sikkah
Morocco
Central-bank banknote printing, minting and secure-document works
Active
Dar As-Sikkah is Morocco’s integrated banknote printing, coin minting and secure-document complex. Inaugurated in 1987 by King Hassan II, it brought the physical production of the…
Davlat Belgisi
Uzbekistan
Integrated central-bank security printer, banknote-paper producer and mint
Active security printer, banknote-paper producer and mint under the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Davlat Belgisi LLC is Uzbekistan’s integrated state security-production organisation under the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan, combining a printing factory, paper factory and mint.…
De La Rue
Great Britain
Private commercial security printer
Active
De La Rue occupies a central place in commercial banknote production, joining two centuries of printing history with contemporary paper, polymer, design and security-feature expertise.
Dom Štampe d.d.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Commercial printing, publishing and trading company; locally attributed banknote printer
Historic commercial printing and publishing company; no current banknote-printing programme is confirmed in the official sources reviewed
Dom Štampe d.d. of Zenica is an unusual local printer attribution in Bosnian notaphily. Rather than a large international security house or a permanent state mint,…
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Egyptian Survey Authority Printing Department
Egypt
Government surveying, mapping and security-printing authority
Active authority; historical banknote-printing attribution
The Egyptian Survey Authority is best known for national mapping, but its printing department also produced security documents and selected Egyptian government currency notes. This specialised…
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Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
Spain
State public-business entity producing coins, security paper, non-euro banknotes, identity products and digital trust services
Active public security manufacturer; routine euro-banknote production is carried out by IMBISA
Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre joined Spain’s minting and stamp traditions in 1893, became the country’s principal peseta-banknote manufacturer in 1940 and now operates beside…
Fidelity Printers and Refiners
Zimbabwe
Historic central-bank-linked banknote and security printer with later precious-metals refining operations
Historic FPR printer identity; in 2021 the company became Fidelity Gold Refinery and the printing division passed to Printing and Minting Company of Zimbabwe
Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) was Zimbabwe’s long-established domestic banknote and security printer, with an official corporate history that traces secure-banknote printing to 1966. The operation…
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Giesecke+Devrient
Germany
Family-owned SecurityTech group
Active
Giesecke+Devrient links the nineteenth-century craft of banknote printing with an integrated modern system of design, security paper, production, processing and currency technology.
Goznak
Russia
State-owned integrated security manufacturer producing banknotes, security paper, coins and identity products
Active
Goznak is an integrated state security manufacturer whose banknote work combines design, security paper, printing and authentication technologies within an institutional line dating to 1818.
Greater Japan Imperial Government
Japan
Government authority and catalogue-level printer label
Historical attribution; not an active printing organisation
Greater Japan Imperial Government is a catalogue attribution used for selected Japanese wartime issues, especially occupation currency. It identifies imperial government responsibility or imprint evidence, but…
Greater Japan Imperial Printing Bureau
Japan
Government security-printing bureau
Historical name; the state-printing lineage continues through Japan’s National Printing Bureau
Greater Japan Imperial Printing Bureau is the catalogue rendering of a Japanese imperial state-printer imprint found on wartime notes. It belongs to the institutional lineage that…
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Harrison & Sons
United Kingdom
Historical private security printer specialising in stamps, banknotes and protected documents
Historical printer; no longer an independent company following its 1997 acquisition by De La Rue
Harrison & Sons was a major British security printer whose long commercial-printing tradition developed into international stamp, banknote and protected-document production before its acquisition by De…
Hong Kong Note Printing Limited
Hong Kong
Government-controlled specialist banknote and security printer
Active
Hong Kong Note Printing Limited is the government-controlled Tai Po printer serving Hong Kong’s distinctive multi-bank note-issuing system and selected external security-printing work.
Hôtel des Monnaies of the Bank of Algeria
Algeria
Integrated central-bank banknote, coin and security-document production directorate
Active
The Bank of Algeria’s Hôtel des Monnaies is the central bank’s internal production organisation for banknotes, coins and protected state documents, combining monetary manufacturing with broader…
Hôtel des Monnaies of the Central Bank of Congo
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Central-bank security printer producing banknotes and protected documents
Active
The Central Bank of Congo’s Hôtel des Monnaies is a domestic security printer inaugurated in 1987, producing banknotes through an integrated design, background-printing, intaglio and quality-control…
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IMBISA
Spain
Central-bank-controlled commercial-law banknote printer
Active
IMBISA is Spain’s dedicated euro-banknote printing company and one of the clearest examples of how the Eurosystem separates monetary authority from industrial production while retaining public…
Imprenta de Billetes del Banco de la República
Colombia
Central-bank banknote-printing department
Active
Colombia’s Imprenta de Billetes is not a separate company but the specialised production department through which Banco de la República manufactures the country’s banknotes in Bogotá.
Impresos de Seguridad
Cuba
Cuban state security-printing and minting enterprise
Active in the latest official and state sources reviewed; current corporate disclosure is limited
Impresos de Seguridad is Cuba’s documented state security-printing and minting institution, but its public corporate record is unusually limited and requires careful separation of verified facts…
Imprimeria BNR
Romania
Autonomous central-bank-supervised banknote printing enterprise
Active
Imprimeria BNR is the National Bank of Romania’s dedicated banknote printing works, carrying a production lineage back to the first NBR notes of 1881. Reorganised as…
Imprimerie Spéciale de Banque
France
Commercial security printer
Historical; the reviewed register records deregistration in 2012
Imprimerie Spéciale de Banque was a French security printer based in Montreuil. Its catalogue footprint includes the coupon currency prepared for newly independent Ukraine, giving the…
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato
Italy
State-owned security printer, secure-paper producer, publisher and mint
Active state security printer and mint; routine circulating-banknote printing is principally a documented historical and export activity
IPZS is Italy’s state security printer and mint, combining official publishing, protected documents, security paper and coinage with a documented history of Italian and foreign banknote…
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KOMSCO
South Korea
State public corporation with integrated banknote, security-paper, minting and identity-document production
Active
KOMSCO is South Korea’s integrated state currency manufacturer, combining banknote printing, security paper, minting, identity products and anti-counterfeiting technology in one public corporation.
Kyōdō Insatsu
Japan
Commercial printing and information-security company
Active
A small red number connects Kyōdō Insatsu's post-war banknotes to its Koishikawa works in Tokyo. Better known today as Kyodo Printing, the company contributed to Japan's…
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Mincovňa Kremnica
Slovakia
State mint with specialised secure-printing and custom-production capabilities
Active
Mincovňa Kremnica belongs first to the history of coinage, yet a special Gibraltar paper issue gives this seven-century mint a precise and unusual place in the…
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National Bank of Cambodia Printing House
Cambodia
Central bank and banknote printing house
Active central bank with an in-house printing-house function
The National Bank of Cambodia is both the guardian of the riel and, for documented issues, part of its physical production history. Created in the mid-twentieth…
National Banknote Printing Plant of Vietnam
Vietnam
State banknote-printing plant
Active
Vietnam’s National Banknote Printing Plant is the state production facility associated with modern đồng banknotes and secure monetary printing. Official State Bank regulations place currency-production contracts…
National Printing Bureau of Japan
Japan
Public incorporated administrative agency manufacturing Bank of Japan notes and other national security products
Active
Japan’s National Printing Bureau combines a public-service mandate with an unusually integrated banknote system, controlling papermaking, original engraving, printing, inspection and finishing for Bank of Japan…
Nigerian Security Printing & Minting Plc
Nigeria
State-controlled security printer and mint
Active
Nigerian Security Printing & Minting Plc is Nigeria’s principal domestic producer of banknotes, coins and high-security documents. Founded in 1963 and commonly known as The Mint,…
Note Printing Australia
Australia
Central bank-owned security printer
Active
Note Printing Australia stands at the centre of the polymer-banknote revolution, transforming the Reserve Bank’s printing branch into a specialised producer for Australia and international customers.
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Oberthur Fiduciaire
France
Private security printer
Active
Oberthur Fiduciaire combines a printing lineage founded in Rennes in 1842 with integrated banknote design, production, security paper and optical-feature capabilities.
OeBS
Austria
Central-bank-controlled commercial banknote printer and banknote centre of excellence
Active
OeBS combines Austria’s banknote-printing tradition since 1816 with a modern Vienna operation offering research, design, plate production, printing, finishing, laboratory services and international currency work.
Orell Füssli
Switzerland
Publicly listed security-printing and technology company with book-retail and publishing activities
Active
Orell Füssli combines a printing lineage founded in Zurich in 1519 with a modern security-printing division responsible for Swiss banknotes and selected international currency work.
Österreichische Staatsdruckerei
Austria
Privately owned security-printing and identity-document company
Active
Österreichische Staatsdruckerei connects Vienna’s historic state-printing tradition with modern identity-document production. Founded in 1804, it also enters banknote collections through documented printing contracts, including the two…
Oumolat Security Printing
United Arab Emirates
Central-bank-owned high-security banknote printer
Active
Oumolat is a young central-bank-owned printer built in Abu Dhabi to bring sovereign banknote manufacturing into the Gulf and to compete for high-security contracts across international…
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Pakistan Security Printing Corporation
Pakistan
Central-bank-owned banknote and security printer
Active
Pakistan Security Printing Corporation is the country’s principal banknote printer and a wholly owned subsidiary of the State Bank of Pakistan. Established in Karachi in 1949…
Pénzjegynyomda
Hungary
Central-bank-owned banknote and high-security printing company
Active
Pénzjegynyomda is Hungary’s central-bank-owned banknote printer, producing the forint through an integrated system that links secure design and intaglio printing with banknote paper from its DIPA…
Pertjetakan Kebajoran
Indonesia
Banknote and security printer; state enterprise from 1963
Historic; merged with PN Arta Yasa into Perum Peruri on 15 September 1971
Pertjetakan Kebajoran was one of the institutions through which independent Indonesia brought banknote production onto domestic soil. Bank Indonesia records N.V. Pertjetakan Kebajoran in Jakarta among…
Perum Peruri
Indonesia
State-owned banknote, coin, security-document and digital-security corporation
Active
Peruri is Indonesia’s state currency manufacturer, combining national rupiah production with export banknotes, security documents, security-material partnerships and an expanding digital-government role.
Polish Security Printing Works
Poland
State-owned security printer and banknote-paper producer
Active
Polish Security Printing Works combines a century of state security printing with in-house banknote paper, multi-process printing and production for Poland and foreign issuing authorities.
Printing Works of the Bulgarian National Bank
Bulgaria
State-majority security printing company and historical banknote printer
Active security printer; banknote-production structure reorganised in 2013 through the creation of Oberthur Fiduciaire AD
Printing Works of the Bulgarian National Bank is Bulgaria’s specialist state-linked security printer, with roots in a BNB production unit created in 1994 and operating from…
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Reichsdruckerei
Germany
State security-printing office
Historical; facilities were largely destroyed in 1945 and the institutional line continued after the war through successor state printers
Reichsdruckerei was Germany’s imperial state printing office, created in Berlin in 1879 by merging two Prussian government printers. It produced banknotes, treasury paper and other secure…
Rīgas Paraugtipogrāfija
Latvia
Commercial or state-transition printing house documented in Latvia’s 1992 currency production
Historical printer attribution; current operating status under this exact name not confirmed
Rīgas Paraugtipogrāfija was the Riga printing house that helped produce Latvia’s temporary rublis banknotes in 1992. Its work, carried out with the design and production enterprise…
Royal Joh. Enschedé
Netherlands
Privately owned high-security printer specialising in secure documents, stamps and banknote-grade commemorative products
Active high-security printer; regular circulating-banknote production ended around 2017
Royal Joh. Enschedé is one of Europe’s oldest security printers, with banknote work dating to 1810 and a present-day focus on secure documents, stamps and specialised…
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Security Banknote Company
United States
Private security engraver and banknote printer
Historic; later corporate lineage associated with Security-Columbian Banknote Company
Security Banknote Company was a Philadelphia security printer whose surviving banknotes, specimens and production material reveal a significant but incompletely documented international career. Its most securely…
Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India
India
Government-owned security printing and minting corporation
Active
Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited is the government-owned group that unites nine historic Indian security-printing, paper-making and minting units. Formed in 2006 through…
Security Printing Works, Wazi
Burma
State security-printing works producing banknotes and other protected state products
Reported active; current legal and organisational disclosure is limited
Security Printing Works at Wazi marks Burma’s transition to domestic state banknote production, beginning with the 1972 Union of Burma Bank series and continuing as a…
South African Bank Note Company
South Africa
Central bank-owned banknote printer
Active
The South African Bank Note Company created domestic rand-production capacity in 1961 and remains the Reserve Bank subsidiary responsible for manufacturing South Africa’s banknotes.
Spindulys
Lithuania
Printing house with documented currency and securities production
Historical company; entered bankruptcy in 2009
Spindulys was the Kaunas printing house behind many of Lithuania’s talonas notes during the restoration of a national currency. Its production links a long-established local printing…
Státní tiskárna cenin
Czech Republic
State enterprise specialising in banknotes, security documents and protected printing
Active
Státní tiskárna cenin is the Czech Republic’s state security printer, combining a banknote-production lineage dating to 1928 with modern design, intaglio, document, card and digital-security capabilities.
Sudan Currency Printing Press
Sudan
Limited-liability security-printing company specialising in banknotes and protected documents
Active security printer; current public reporting is limited
Sudan Currency Printing Press began production in 1994 and became the country’s dedicated banknote manufacturer, combining domestic currency work with a wider ambition to serve central…
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TAKAB
Iran
Security-paper mill and collector-attributed banknote printer term
Active Central Bank of Iran security-paper operation
TAKAB is the printer attribution used in modern Iranian notaphily for a large group of twenty-first-century rial notes and Iran cheques, but official Central Bank of…
The Hong Kong Printing Press Limited
Hong Kong
Historical commercial security printer
Historical; no active official company presence was verified
The Hong Kong Printing Press Limited appears in banknote catalogues as a printer of selected Chinese regional issues, including Hainan Bank notes dated 1949. Its production…
The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd.
Bangladesh
Central-bank-owned banknote and high-security printer
Active
SPCBL turned Bangladesh’s dependence on imported currency production into a domestic security-printing system serving both the monetary authorities and a wide range of protected state documents.
Topčider Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins
Serbia
Central bank security-printing and minting institute
Active
Topčider is the National Bank of Serbia’s secure production complex, combining a banknote works opened in 1929 with later minting, document and payment-card capabilities.
Toppan Insatsu
Japan
Commercial printing and security-printing company
Historical printer name; the corporate group now operates under TOPPAN Holdings
Toppan Insatsu was one of Japan’s major commercial printers and a documented producer of selected wartime banknotes. Catalogue attributions can identify individual Toppan plants through serial-number…
Tumba Bruk
Sweden
Former central-bank banknote paper mill and printing works
Historical banknote printing works; active banknote paper mill and design centre
Tumba Bruk is a foundational name in Swedish banknote history: established by the Riksbank in 1755, later sold to Crane, and now active as a paper…
Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası Banknot Matbaası
Turkey
In-house central-bank banknote printing plant
Active
The Banknote Printing Plant of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye is the country’s in-house producer of lira banknotes. Established in the 1950s, it…
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United States Bank Note Company
United States
Former commercial security printer and security-document manufacturer
Former corporate identity; later reorganised within American Banknote Corporation
United States Bank Note Company printed Estonia’s first restored-kroon low denominations, placing an American commercial security printer inside one of Europe’s defining monetary transitions.
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Waterlow & Sons
Great Britain
Private security printer and engraver
Historic; security-printing assets acquired by De La Rue
Waterlow & Sons was one of Britain’s great private security printers, carrying London engraving and lithographic craft into the banknotes, stamps, bonds and certificates of an…
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Zrinski Printing House
Croatia
Historical Croatian commercial printing house used for transitional national banknotes
Historical banknote printer; a current Čakovec printing company uses the Zrinski name, but legal continuity with the 1991 banknote-printing entity is unconfirmed
Zrinski Printing House in Čakovec produced the first low denominations of Croatia’s temporary dinar in 1991, placing a regional commercial printer inside the urgent monetary infrastructure…