Holograms on the Euro – Series 2

After last month’s commemoration in Holography News® of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the euro (ES1) – and how DOVIDs became the principle overt first level anticounterfeiting device on the new currency – this month I’m going to explore the evolution of diffractive security features as used on the 2nd series (Europa ES2). 

At the end of the previous article ‘20th Anniversary of the Launch of the Euro’ (see HN January 2022) I left the story of the success of the use of DOVIDs to the words of the European Central Bank (ECB) report on the evaluation of the 2002 cash changeover ¹ – ‘The level (of counterfeiting), when compared with previous experience with the legacy currencies, has indeed been very low’.