Currency & Security Papers

Crane & Company has manufactured currency and security papers for nearly 200 years. We have continually supplied the United States Treasury with its currency paper since 1879. United States Currency utilizes the most durable banknote paper in the world, achieving the longest life span of any paper currency, and Marathon High Durability substrate is the secret of the U.S. currency's success.

Over the decades, the consistent drive of our technology has been in the durability, printability, aesthetics and anticounterfeiting features of banknote papers. Since being awarded a patent in 1844 for banknote paper with embedded silk threads, Crane has been a leader in developing paper-based counterfeit deterrents, such as advanced security threads, watermarks, planchettes, security fibers, special additives, and fluorescent and phosphorescent elements.

For more information about U.S. Currency, please follow the links below:

Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Secrets of Making Money
U.S. Secret Service
The Federal Reserve
U.S. Treasury Department