Patent ID: 8794674

Claim:
A security element for securing valuable articles, in which a thin-film element having a color-shift effect and a relief pattern present in an embossing lacquer layer are stacked, the embossing lacquer layer having the relief pattern is metalized in sub-regions to form a partially metalized embossing lacquer layer having a metallization on the embossing layer, and the relief pattern of the partially metalized embossing lacquer layer is leveled with a transparent lacquer layer whose refractive index substantially corresponds to the refractive index of the embossing lacquer layer, characterized in that a color-shift effect of the thin-film element and an optically variable effect of the relief pattern are each visible when viewed from the side of the relief pattern; wherein the thin-film element and the relief pattern leveled with the transparent lacquer layer are stacked such that the thin-film element is in direct contact with either (i) the embossing lacquer layer of the relief pattern or (ii) the transparent lacquer layer.