Bank Card
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A Bank Card is typically a plastic card issued by a bank to its clients that performs one or more of a number of services that relate to giving the client access to funds, either from the client's own bank account, or through a credit account.
Physically, a bank card will usually have the name of the client printed on it, as well as a unique card number. It will have a magnetic strip on the back enabling various machines to read and access information. Depending on the issuing bank and the preferences of the client, this may allow the card to be used as an ATM card, enabling transactions at automatic teller machines; or as debit card, linked to the client's bank account and able to be used for making purchases at the point of sale; or as a credit card attached to a revolving credit line supplied by the bank.
The first bank cards were ATM cards issued by Barclays in London, in 1967, and by Chemical Bank in Long Island, New York, in 1969. In 1972, Lloyds Bank issued the first bank card to feature an information-encoding magnetic strip, using a personal identification number (PIN) for security.
Historically, bank cards have also served the purpose of a cheque guarantee card, a now almost defunct system to guarantee cheques at point of sale.
Browsing the Catalog
The Colnect Bank Cards Catalog can easily be filtered from the Catalog drop-down menu by the following properties:
- Countries: The country the Bank Card was issued in.
- Issuers: The company, which issued the Bank Card.
- Types: The type of the Bank Card, according to the purposes the card is intended to be used for. Currently the following options are available:
- Access Card
- Account Card
- ATM Card
- Business Card
- Cash Card
- Credit Card: A plastic payment card issued to cardholders to allow buying goods and services on credit. Collecting credit cards is a part of exonumia.
- Debit Card: A plastic payment card that allows the holder to transfer money electronically from the holder's bank account when making a purchase instead of using cash.
- Evidence Card
- Food Card
- Identity Card
- Internet Banking Code Card
- Personal Card
- Personal Design
- Phone Internet Code Card
- PrePaid Card
- Priorities Card
- Tax Card
- Visitor Card
- Void - Collectors Cards
- Years: The first year of issue, if known.
- Themes: The motif themes on the Bank Card. Multiple themes can be selected for one card. Only the themes from the Colnect Global Cross-Category Themes List can be used, please contact the coordinator if you think a theme is missing.
- Recently updated: Bank cards where at least one piece of information was changed in the last 30 calendar days. The last change applied is used to determine the change age of the card. This can be further filtered by the last 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 calendar days.
- Newly added: Bank Cards added to the Colnect Bank Cards Catalog within the last 30 calendar days. This can be further filtered by the last 1, 3, 7, 14, and 30 calendar days.
- Import Log: A list of all New Item Forms (NIFs) that have been imported to the Colnect Bank Cards category since 2013. It shows date, the person who created the NIF, the coordinator who imported it, the number of Bank Cards imported, and the country of the Bank Card. Please note that it is not possible to find the bank cards that were in the NIF, this information is not stored in the database.
The catalog also contains other properties to further describe the Bank Cards:
- Name (60 characters): The name of the Bank Card.
- Provider: A company that provides financial services.
- Variant: If a Bank Card is marked as a variant, you can get a list of all variants of this Bank Card by clicking on Click to see variants.
- Catalog Name: The name of the catalog used for the catalog number. Currently only Colnect Codes (Colnect's own numbering system) is used.
- Catalog Code: See section Colnect Catalog Codes below.
- Description: A detailed description of the Bank Card. This may include information on how to distinguish variants.
- Front Picture and Back Picture: Both front and back of the Bank Card should be pictured, as the back often contains important information about the issuer, author, motif, number and hints to determine the age. Please follow the Picture Guidelines.
Colnect Codes for Bank Cards
Structure of the Colnect Code
The Colnect Codes are currently the only catalog available for bank cards. The code consists of the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 country code where the bank card was issued, issuer abbreviation, hyphens and a consecutive 4-digit number. Example: DE-MC-0086 DE: ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 for Germany, Federal Republic -: Hyphen MC: Issuer abbreviation for Mastercard 0086: Consecutive number