Smart Cards 
Subtitle: A Guide to Building and Managing Smart Card Applications
Publisher: Wiley
Published: December 24, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780471157489
First sentence: Due to vandalism and theft in the early 1980s, France's Public Telephone and Telegraph System began to move to a coinless public telephone system that used "smart" cards to hold a prepurchased value.