Introducing DataVault 2.0: The Definitive Data Tool for Currency Professionals
Reconnaissance International is proud to launch DataVault 2.0 – comprehensively overhauled with a wealth of new information and an intuitive interface, and now offered with a range of flexible subscription options to suit all budgets and research needs.
DataVault 2.0 is the industry’s only dedicated tool for accurate, up-to-date and aggregated data on circulating banknotes and coins, built for the professionals who design, produce, regulate, and secure physical currency. In short, we’ve done the heavy lifting, so you don’t have to spend hours scouring websites, cross-referencing data and/or generating reports!
For anyone – from central banks to printers and mints to suppliers to researchers – benchmarking security features for a new banknote series, researching coin compositions, or tracking issuance trends, DataVault 2.0 provides structured, searchable data updated monthly, saving hours if not days in time-consuming research.
The data has been compiled by industry experts, and the information is both accurate and current. At its heart is a powerful search engine where, critically, unlike other banknotes and coins databases in the market, the information can be searched not just by country or denomination, but across multiple fields and combinations thereof, aggregated and then (depending on the subscription level), downloaded.
From there, trends and features can be analysed in a fraction of the time it would take to collate the information manually, enabling you to keep up effortlessly with developments in currency issuance.
DataVault 2.0 allows central banks and monetary authorities to benchmark designs, specifications and security features against global peers. It empowers security printers and substrate manufacturers to track adoption of technologies, substrates, and feature combinations worldwide. Mints and blank manufacturers can compare coin dimensions, alloys, and edge treatments across issuers. Researchers can access a single authoritative source for global analysis. Law enforcement & compliance teams can rapidly reference current and superseded denomination details.
DataVault 2.0 has two active and fully populated modules for coins and banknotes, and a third under development on cash in circulation.
The banknote module contains all the world’s denominations (circulating and commemorative) with unmatched depth on overt security features. It includes:
- Detailed specifications – dimensions, orientation, substrate type, and year of issue
- Structured security feature matrix covering type, position, format, visual effect, brand, and machine-readability
- Substrate analysis including material, brand, treatment, and security fibres
- Design themes across 11 categories along with dominant colours per denomination
- Technology supplier linkage – with printers, substrate and features suppliers linked to each banknote
- Window feature tracking and design change history
- High-quality imagery with front and back views.
Banknotes can be filtered and compared across any combination of region, country, currency, substrate, or security feature. with the flexibility to build precise queries using AND/OR logic across multiple feature dimensions.
For coins, the database includes circulating coin denominations only, with detailed physical and material specifications.
- Complete physical profiles – diameter, weight, shape, edge type, and multi-sided configurations
- Material composition breakdowns including mono-metallic, bi-metallic, and tri-metallic structures
- Alloy details per coin component for precise specification matching
- Circulation status tracking – current, superseded, and obsolete denominations
- Minting year ranges and design change tracking
- Front and back imagery for visual reference.
The cash module, currently in the development phase, tracks trends in banknote and coin circulation by country – offering value, volume, and denomination breakdown over time. It includes economic indicators such as GDP, CPI, population, ATMs, and bank branches data from the World Bank. This is available in the current prototype mode free of charge.
DataVault 2.0 is being refined and enhanced on an almost daily basis. Recent additions include currency symbols, currency codes, industry awards tracking (HSP, IACA and more), and suppliers (printer, substrate, feature) per denomination (which is still a work-in-progress).
DataVault now also hosts the online version of the Currency and Technology Supplier Directory – a comprehensive directory of the organisations that design, produce and supply the currency industry worldwide.
Future plans include printer information and counterfeiting information, with a dream of annual production volumes, although this is not without challenges. And once the cash module is fully up and running, all three modules will link, thereby multiplying the search options.
DataVault 2.0 can be explored for free, with complementary access to data from six countries, by visiting datavault.reconnaissance.net.