Costa Rica upgrades 5000 banknote

Banknotes, News

The Banco Centrale de Costa Rica, the country’s central bank, has announced that it has upgraded the ¢5000 banknote with new security features. A press release issued by the central bank on 11 November 2016 said that the note had been upgraded as part of efforts to strengthen security features contained within the Costa Rican banknote. Most notably, the…

Image of set of Kazakhstan's banknotes.

President Nazarbayev on Kazakhstan banknotes

Banknotes, News

President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is to feature on new banknotes to be released next month. The National Bank of Kazakhstan, the country’s central bank, has announced that the new 10,000-tenge banknote (GBP £23, US $29) will go into circulation on 1 December  2016, before a national holiday celebrating the President’s long-standing leadership of the country.…