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Title: Currency flaw severity. [Banknotes]

Conference ·
OSTI ID:7018273

A survey of currency flaw severity was carried out using 300 banknotes and 37 judges. Each judge assigned each note to one of five flaw severity categories. These categories correspond to severity grades of 1 to 5 with 1 equivalent to ''always accepted'' and 5 ''never accepted.'' An average flaw severity grade for each note was obtained by taking the mean of the severity grades assigned to that note by the 37 judges. Thus, each note has a single numerical real-number flaw grade between 1 and 5. Mathematical modeling of the currency flaw survey results is continuing with some very promising initial results. Our present model handles common excess ink and missing ink flaw types quite well. We plan to extend the model to ink level, mash, setoff and blanket impression flaw types.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
7018273
Report Number(s):
CONF-8609170-1; ON: DE87000355
Resource Relation:
Conference: International conference on machine inspection of printed security documents, Long Beach, CA, USA, 25 Sep 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English