Regional Banknote and ID Document of the Year Awards

One of the highlights of the High Security Printing™ conferences each year are the regional awards for the best banknotes and ID documents.

There are four categories within the Banknote of the Year awards, and three categories for the ID Document of the Year awards.  The winners will be announced during the conference dinner.

The deadline for nominations is 31 December 2024.

Award Categories

Regional Banknote

The regional Banknote of the Year Award recognises outstanding achievement in the design, technical sophistication and security of a banknote or banknote series, the key judging criteria being that successful banknotes should combine visual artistry and high levels of technical and security sophistication, with considerable emphasis placed on reflecting the cultural heritage of the issuing country in the note, and the relevance of the overall design and symbolism to the issuing country.

 

There are four categories:
  • Best New Banknote
  • Best New Banknote Series
  • Best New Commemorative Banknote
  • Best New Housenote

Regional ID Document

The Regional ID Document of The Year awards – which recognise outstanding achievement and technical sophistication of a personal identification or travel document programme – are designed to promote the best in system infrastructure and implementation of a government passport, identity or other secure identification scheme.

 

There are three categories:
  • Best New Passport
  • Best New National ID Card
  • Best New ID or Travel Document.

The award judges comprise the Board of Directors of Reconnaissance International, the conference organiser and publisher of Currency News and ID & Secure Document News.

Any new note (or series) or ID document (card, passport, licence) issued since the last HSP EMEA event will be considered. There is a cap for each regional award scheme of two nominations per organisation per category.

If you would like to make a nomination, please do so online by completing the form below and submitting the name of the banknote(s) or document(s) you would like to nominate, details and images, and why you think it should be a winner. A short video of the project would also be helpful.

Please use the form at the bottom of this page to submit your nomination.

2024 Winners

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Regional Banknote of the Year

Best New Banknote

Moroccan 100 & 200 dirhams

Bank Al-Maghrib

Best New Commemorative Banknote

Lesotho 200 maloti

Central Bank of Lesotho

Best New Commemorative Banknote

Polish 200 zloty

Narodowy Bank Polski

Best New House Note

Laika series

Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions

Best New Banknote

Phoenix 2023

KOMORI

Regional ID Document of the Year

Best New ePassport

Bahrain Passport

Bahrain’s Ministry of the Interior

Best New ePassport

Latvia Passport

Latvia’s Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs

Best New ID card

Swiss ID Card

Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police

Best New ID or Travel Document

Finland ID Card

National Police Board of Finland

Previous Years’ Winners

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Regional Banknote 

2023 Best New Series

Liberia New Series

Central Bank of Liberia

2023 Best New Banknote

UAE 1,000 Dirham

Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates

2023 Best New Commemorative Banknote

Quatari 22 Riyal

Qatar Central Bank

2023 Special Achievement Award

CBE – State-Of-The-Art Printworks

Central Bank of Egypt

2022 Best New Series

Oman 6th Series

Central Bank of Oman

2022 Best New Banknote

Malawian 5,000 KWACHA

Reserve Bank of Malawi

2022 Best New Commemorative Banknote

Polish 20 ZLOTY

Narodowy Bank Polski

2021 Best New Banknote

English £50

Bank of England

2021 Best New Series

Qatari 5th series

Qatar Central Bank

2021 Best New Commemorative Banknote

Namibian 30 Dollar

Bank of Namibia

2020 Best New Series

New Dram Series

Central Bank of Armenia

2020 Best New Banknote

JMW Turner £20

Bank of England

2020 Best New Commemorative Banknote

19 Zloty

National Bank of Poland

2019 Best New Series

Swiss Franc 9th Series

Swiss National Bank

2019 Best New Banknote

100lev

Bulgaria National Bank

2019 Best New Commemorative Banknote

Rand – Mandela Series

South African Reserve Bank

2018 Best New Banknote

500 Dram

Central Bank of Armenia

2018 Best New Commemorative Banknote

2000 Som

National Bank of Kyrgyz Republic

2017 Best New Banknote

500 Zloty

Narodowy Bank Polski

2016 Best New Series

Lari Series

National Bank of Georgia

2016 Best New Banknote

20,000 Tenge

National Bank of Kazakhstan

2015 Best New Banknote

20 Zloty

National Bank of Poland

2014 Best New Banknote

100 Rubles

Central Bank of Russia

Regional ID Document

2023 Best New ePassport

Swiss Passport

Federal Office of Police Switzerland

2023 Best New National eID Card

Slovene Biometric Identity Card

Slovene Ministry of Public Administration

2023 Best New National eID Card

Emirates ID card

Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship UAE

2023 Best New ID or Travel Document

Latvia Driving Licence

Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) of Latvia

2023

NASPS Industrial Complex

IIG and the Egyptian government

2023 Certificate of Achievement Award

New Turkish Passport

Turkey’s Ministry of Treasury and Finance

2022 Best New ePassport

Belgian ePassport

Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs

2022 Best New National eID Card

Moroccan eID Card

General Directorate of National Security for Morocco

2022 Best New National eID Card

Lithuanian eID Card

Service of Technological Security of State Documents Lithuania

2022 Best New ID or Travel Document

Ugandan Driving License

Ministry of Works and Transport of Uganda

2021 Best New ePassport

Estonian ePassport

Estonian Police and Border Guard Board

2021 Best New National eID Card

French eID card

French Ministry of the Interior

2021 Best New National eID Card

German eID card

Bundeskriminalamt

2021 Best New ID or Travel Document

Monaco Residents Permit

Département de l’Intérieur de Monaco

2020 Best New National eID Card

Belgium’s New National eID Card

Belgian National Register

2020 Best New National eID Card

Latvia’s New National eID Card

Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, Latvia

2020 Best New ePassport

Malta New ePassport

Identity Malta

2020 Best New ePassport

Lithuania New ePassport

Service of Technological Security of State Documents, Lithuania

2019 Best New ePassport

New Tanzanian ePassport

Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Tanzania

2019 Best New National eID Card

New National eID Card

Police and Border Guard Board of Estonia

2019 Best New ID Document

New ID Document

Germany Bundeskriminalamt

2018 Best New ePassport

New Kuwait ePassport

Kuwait Ministry of Interior

2018 Best New National eID Card

Jordan’s New eID Card

Ministry of Interior, Jordan

2017 Best New ID Document

New Finnish eID and ePassport

Ministry of the Interior Finland

2016 Best New National eID Card

DNI Electrónico 3.0

Spanish National Police Corps

2016 Best New ID card

Irish Passport Card

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ireland

2015 Best New ID card

Romania’s Identity Card

Ministry of Interior and Public Administration, Romania

2014 Best New ePassport

Irish E-Passport

Irish Passport Office

Special Achievement Award

2017 Special Achievement Award

1 Rial

Central Bank of Oman

2017 Special Achievement Award

Service of Technological Security of State Documents

Ministry of Finance, Lithuania

2014 Special Achievement Award

750 Years as a Paper Producer

Fabriano

Make a Nomination

If you have a project that you would like to nominate for this year’s event, please submit the details using the form below or email Sam Burns [email protected]. The deadline for nominations is 31 December 2024.