The Central Bank of Barbados has issued a $50 commemorative banknote, celebrating 50 years of independence. The commemorative banknote, printed by UK banknote printer De La Rue, is based on the circulating version, but includes the official 50th anniversary logo displayed at the top right on the front of the banknote. Also in coin The…
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De La Rue has announced that it will continue to print banknotes at its factory in Malta. This is a turnaround from last December when the company announced major redundancies at its Malta banknote printing plant, with reportedly a view of eventually phasing out banknote printing activities within the country. A press release from De La Rue confirms…
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The central bank of Norway has put its new banknote series on public display for the first time at Vippetangen in Oslo from 22 to 27 November. Norges Bank last issued its currently circulating banknote series during the 1990s. Though the level of counterfeiting within the country is low, the central bank decided to issue a…
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The central bank of Colombia, the Banco de la Republica, has announced that the next banknote from its latest series will be issued on 29 November 2016. The 2,000-peso banknote is the fifth denomination of the new family of banknotes to be issued by the central bank, following the 100,000, 50,000, 20,000 and 5,000 all issued earlier…
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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…
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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.…
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