The National Bank of Ukraine has made public a detailed description of the appearance of the new currency means of protection which include a water mark, protection strip, relief elements, alignment picture, rainbow printing, anti-scanner grid, coded images, a microtext, signs for the blind and visible protection fibres.

Unofficially, the level of protection against forgery is being likened to that of the Deutsch Mark.

(Order of the National Bank of Ukraine No 71 dated 26 August 1996)

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