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Reserve Bank of New Zealand: Brighter Money ($5s and $10s) coming from 12 October

Source: Reserve Bank of New Zealand Date 22/09/2015: The Reserve Bank today announced the first release of new $5 and $10 notes will take place on Monday 12 October. From that day, new notes will start to be released from banks and retailers. The current notes (Series 6) and the new notes (Series 7) will circulate together and both will be legal tender. The remaining denominations of the new series ($20,...

Bank of Canada is commemorating the historic reign of Queen Elizabeth II with a special edition of a new $20 bill

Source: Bank of Canada On 9 September 2015, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes longest reigning British monarch, overtaking her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria’s record of 63 years and 216 days. To mark this historic reign, the Bank of Canada will issue a special commemorative $20 banknote. Unlike any other Canadian bank note, in this 2015 edition, the queen is shown wearing a crown. The portrait placed in the note’s window...

Father of modern Gibraltar honoured with new £100 bank note

Source: EuroWeekly News Government of Gibraltar issued new 100 pounds polymere banknote commemorate the 100th birthday of Gibraltar’s first Chief Minister Sir Joshua Hassan. The note is dated August 21, 2015, the birthday of Sir Joshua Hassan (1915-1997). Nicknamed ‘Salvador’ (Saviour), Sir Joshua was chief minister for a total of 22 years and is credited as being the most important architect of Gibraltar’s move towards self-determination. The design of this,...

Singapore – Commemorative Notes to Celebrate SG50

Source: MAS Singapore, 18 August 2015 MAS Press Release: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong today unveiled a set of six commemorative currency notes to celebrate SG50.  The commemorative notes, issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), comprise a $50 polymer note and five $10 polymer notes. Together with a set of three commemorative coins launched in April this year, the notes complete the set of SG50 commemorative currencies...

China to issue new 100-yuan note

Source:  Xinhua news agency BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, announced it would issue a new 100-yuan bank note from Nov. 12 on Monday. The new bank note will be harder to counterfeit and easier for machines to read. Part of the fifth set of bank notes introduced by the PBOC in 1999, it was last changed in 2005. The design...

Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting

Source: ECB 17 July 2015: Press Release of The European Central Bank (ECB) 454,000 counterfeit euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation in the first half of 2015. 86% of the counterfeits are €20 and €50 banknotes. In the first half of 2015 a total of 454,000 counterfeit euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation –10.5% down on the figure for the second half of 2014, but still higher than in the...

United Arab Emirates: Central Bank to issue currency notes for the blind

Source: Gulf News Dubai, July 7, 2015: The Central Bank said it will put into circulation currency notes with tactile features for the blind and visually impaired to recognise on Wednesday, July 8, 2015. The features will be felt on notes of Dh500 and Dh5 denomination, which will keep the overall design and other specifications the same as the currency notes currently in circulation. The notes will be reprinted with...

National Bank of Poland to issue 500 złoty banknote

Source: New Europe Investor; Lodz Post; Coin Week June 23, 2015:  The Polish central bank has announced that it is to introduce a 500 zloty bank note.  The note according to the central bank, will be introduced within the next two years. The face of the 500 zloty bill will feature the image of King Jan Sobieski III and therefore continues the chronological order of the “Polish Rulers” series....

South Africa banknotes get new signature

Source: Fin24 News, Jun 21 2015 On Friday, Kganyago, SA’s second black reserve bank governor, went back to his roots in his home village of Moletjie Ga-Maribana in Limpopo to buy bread, cooking oil, maize meal and sugar with the first batch of banknotes bearing his signature. He conducted the first transaction with them at Makgohloane General Trading, a local shop in the village where he used to buy bread...

Bank of Scotland to switch to plastic bank notes

Source: The Scotsman,  Monday 01 June 2015 Bank of Scotland announced its next £5 and £10 notes will be printed on plastic. It becomes the second bank in Scotland, after Clydesdale, to issue notes printed on polymer which, according to the bank, are more durable than traditional paper notes. The Bank of Scotland, which has been issuing bank notes in the country for over 300 years, says the new...