Patent ID: 8584948

Claim:
A security element, particularly for banknotes, security cards, comprising a first substrate which is at least partially opaque when viewed in transmitted light, and a plurality of magnetic areas being arranged on said substrate, wherein each of said magnetic areas is formed by a first magnetic material, a second magnetic material or an arrangement of the first and the second magnetic materials being at least partially superimposed, the first magnetic material and the second magnetic material exhibiting different coercivity values which are detectable by a sensor, wherein the first and second magnetic materials are magnetically saturated such that one of the first and second magnetic materials is not affected by the other, wherein said different coercivity values are adapted to generate at least three mutually different codes, wherein said three codes are determinable by all the magnetic areas that are present, provided by means of inks exhibiting a high coercivity value and by means of inks exhibiting a low coercivity value, by the magnetic areas provided with inks exhibiting a high coercivity value which have mutually identical or different residual magnetism, and by magnetic areas provided by means of inks exhibiting a low coercivity value and the residual magnetism of which is identical and/or different, wherein said magnetic areas are provided by coupling the first substrate with a second substrate, the first substrate containing the first magnetic material and the second substrate containing the second magnetic material, such that magnetic areas are formed by the first magnetic material, the second magnetic material and the arrangement of the first and second magnetic material being superimposed.