A holographic security code comprising: a pattern of elementary cells having a predetermined shape and a predetermined relative position, said pattern comprising a two-dimensional sequence of said elementary cells; said pattern comprising a predetermined number of so-called "empty" elementary cells, i.e. such as to appear in a predetermined
dark color, in particular black, and said pattern comprising a predetermined number of elementary cells that generate a diffractive effect, so-called iridescent cells, and which each comprise at least one diffractive
grating having a predetermined orientation, preferably a combination of at least two diffractive gratings that differ between their orientation; said diffractive gratings being made in such a way that the light
radiation emitted is visible only with an observation according to different viewing angles comprised in a predetermined range, said pattern generating, when observed according to the aforementioned viewing angles, an image consisting of the combination of said predetermined number of so-called empty cells, having a predetermined
dark colour, preferably black, and of so-called iridescent cells and in particular of different colours contrasting with said
dark colour of the so-called empty cells; while with viewing angles and / or illumination outside said range of viewing angles, in particular perpendicular to the surface along which said two-dimensional sequence of elementary cells extends, said empty elementary cells and said iridescent elementary cells do not have a different appearance from each other; said elementary cells having sides lengths and / or diagonals or larger diameters in the range from 50 to 300 microns. The invention also concerns a holographic security product characterized by the fact that it comprises a substrate on which said aforementioned holographic code is applied. In addition, the invention has as its object an anti-counterfeiting
verification system, said
system comprising: a plurality of anti-counterfeiting labels that comprise a product of the aforementioned type; at least one code reader applied to said labels, said codes being made up of at least one said holographic code; at least one
processing unit comprising a memory wherein the aforementioned codes are stored and at least one program for comparing the codes transmitted by the reader and the codes contained in said
database, at least one visual and / or acoustic reception and
reproduction unit associated with said reader; said
processing unit generating a confirmation or denial
signal of the authenticity of the code depending on the outcome of said comparison, said
signal being transmitted to said visual and / or acoustic
reproduction unit for the emission of visual and / or acoustic information about the confirmation or denial of authenticity of said code.