{{Short description|Gold bar which contains a Kinegram}} {{Primary sources|date=May 2020}} A '''kinebar''' is a gold bar that has a diffractive optically variable image device (similar to a security hologram) embossed into the surface of the gold. The device used is a "Kinegram" made by OVD Kinegram AG (Switzerland).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Disclaimer|url=https://www.kinegram.com/en/footer/disclaimer/|website=www.kinegram.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-10|archive-date=2020-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517105824/https://www.kinegram.com/en/footer/disclaimer/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Bar== The Kinegram technology is exclusively provided to governments,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Why the KINEGRAM is not a security hologram |url=https://www.kinegram.com/knowledge-base/kinegram-technology/kinegram-vs-hologram |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=www.kinegram.com}}</ref> and is intended both as a high-security feature and for visual appeal.
Union Bank of Switzerland, through Argor-Heraeus SA (subsidiary of Commerzbank), has been applying the kinegram as a security device to the reverse of its minted bars since December 1993. The kinebar, now produced by UBS AG, is a registered trade mark of UBS.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_Dec_6/ai_17816232/ "New gold kinebar unveiled in the United States; Advanced high-tech security feature marks breakthrough in gold minting"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426145419/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_Dec_6/ai_17816232/ |date=2010-04-26 }}, press release, Dec 6, 1995</ref>
Argor-Heraeus gold Kinebars were introduced in 1994 in the following weights - 1 g, 2 g, 5 g, 10 g, 20 g, and 1 oz. The 50 g and 100 g gold Kinebars were subsequently released in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2014 |title=Argor-Heraeus SA |url=https://goldbarsworldwide.com/PDF/RB_2_ArgorHeraeusGoldBars.pdf |website=Gold Bars Worldwide}}</ref>
<gallery> File:Kinebar3.jpg|Kinebar one troy ounce File:Kinebar.jpg|Kinebar certificate File:Kinebar2.gif|Kinegram </gallery>
==See also== * Gold as an investment
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.argor.com/index.php?id=67 Argor-Heraeus - The kinebar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192829/http://www.argor.com/index.php?id=67 |date=2016-03-03 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070523070440/http://www.austrian-mint.at/kinebar The first Austrian kinebar] *[https://www.kinegram.com/en/home OVD Kinegram, Switzerland]
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