Patent ID: 8778481

Claim:
A security element for securing valuable articles, having at least one first authenticating feature, the first authenticating feature comprising a first arrangement, having a plurality of lens-shaped focusing elements that are present in a first grid, and a second arrangement, having a plurality of microscopic structures that are present in a second grid, the first and the second arrangement being disposed in such a way that the spatial frequencies of the two grids differ slightly and, as a result of a moiré effect, the microscopic structures of the second arrangement are seen magnified when viewed through the lens-shaped focusing elements of the first arrangement, and a second authenticating feature that is visually verifiable and is not magnified by the first arrangement of the first authenticating feature, wherein the microscopic structures of the second arrangement of the first authenticating feature comprise embossed microstructures that are coated with a metal reflection layer that provides the second authenticating feature and that exhibits apertures in the form of characters, patterns or codes, and/or is present in the form of characters, patterns or codes, and wherein the magnification effect of the lens-shaped focusing elements of the first arrangement does not relate to the second authenticating feature.