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Technical Bulletin: 0102
Issue Date: 01.06.10

Contents:

1. Withdrawal of the Elgar £20 Banknote (models: 1000, 1006, 3000 & 4000 series plus 5001)

2. New Danish 50 & 100 Kroner Notes (models: 1000, 1006, 3000 & 4000 series plus 5001)

3. Northern Irish Bank £10 Print Variation (model: 1000, 1006, 3000 & 4000 series plus 5001)

4. Software News

 

1. Withdrawal of the Elgar £20 Banknote (models: 1000, 1006, 3000 & 4000 series plus 5001)

The £20 banknote carrying the portrait of composer Sir Edward Elgar is to be finally withdrawn from circulation from 30th June 2010. The Bank of England have said that for several months from the end of June banks, building societies and Post Offices will accept Elgar notes for deposit to customers accounts and other customer transactions. The Bank of England will always give value for these notes

Details of the current software revisions to inhibit this note are in section 4 below

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2. New Danish 50 & 100 Kroner Notes (models: 1000, 1006, 3000 & 4000 series plus 5001)

The Danish Bank has started to introduce a new series of notes:

50	-	August 2009
100	-	May 2010
200	-	October 2010
500	-	February 2011
1000	-	May 2011

Software for both the new 50 & 100 banknotes is now available and the latest revisions are detailed in section 4 below

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3. Northern Irish Bank £10 Print Variation (model: 1000, 1006, 3000 & 4000 series plus 5001)

Northern Irish Bank recently completed a reprint of their £10 note at which time they took the opportunity to update the logo, signature, date etc so tests are being carried out to identify if these changes are likely to affect the acceptance rates and news will follow in TB103

 

4. Software News

Latest software releases are:

Ardac 5 (Blue Thomas label)

Model	Version	Update
Denmark	57x2000.22-081.15.01	New 50 & 100 added
England / Scotland	57x2000.22-045.35.19	New Clydesdale 5, 10, 20 and 50 added Inhibit switch to reject old BoE 20
England / Scotland / Euro	57x2000.22-097.37.04	BoE Elgar 20 note tables removed
England / Scotland / NI	57x2000.22-075.38.05	BoE Elgar 20 note tables removed
Euro	57x2000.22-070.08.02	Update to core revision

Ardac Elite (Yellow Thomas label)

Model	Version	Update
Denmark	DK-001-003	New 50 & 100 added
England / Scotland	GB-002-023	New Clydesdale 5, 10, 20 and 50 Added Inhibit switch to reject old BoE 20
England / Scotland / NI	GB-003-012	Rejection of Bank of Ireland 20 counterfeits
Euro	EU-001-015	Improved acceptance of 100
India	IN-001-008	Improved acceptance of all notes and rejection of mutilated notes
USA	US-001-017	Improved acceptance of all notes

Ardac Elite Firmware

All Currencies

13v08

Latest revision

Pescara

All Currencies

4-11-2-8

Allows ccTalk mapping

Innovative Technology NV Series Readers

See: http://www.innovative-technology.co.uk/supportindex.php?page=software&lang=en

NV8
England / Scotland	GBP06816	BoE Elgar 20 note tables removed
England / NI	GBP09811	BoE Elgar 20 note tables removed
NV10
Denmark	DKK03102 / DKK03102	New 50 & 100 added
England / Scotland	GBP06113 / GBP06114	)
England / NI	GBP09114 / GBP09115	)
England / IOM	GBP14104	) BoE Elgar 20 note tables removed
England / Jersey	GBP15104	)
England / Guernsey	GBP18104	)
England / Gibraltar	GBP22102	)
Euro	EUR45109 / EUR45110	Latest revision

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