The Central Bank of the Bahamas has issued the latest denomination from their new CRISP Evolution series, the one dollar banknote. The Bank issued a press release yesterday announcing the release of the banknote denomination, the second of the CRISP Evolution series to be issued following the $10 banknote in September 2016. The banknote is printed on Louisenthal’s Hybrid™ combination…
The National Bank of Poland has reportedly announced that it will be issuing a 500 zloty banknote. The Central Bank has said that the new denomination, which will become the highest denomination in the Polish banknote series, will be issued within the next 2 years. The new note design will include a portrait of King…
The Bank of Thailand has launched a new 100-Baht banknote. The new banknote is part of the 16th series of banknotes issued by Thailand’s Central Bank, and entered circulation on the 26 February 2015. According to the Bank’s press release, the new banknote continues to use the same colour and dimensions as its predecessor, but…
According to a statement released by the National Bank of Ukraine, a new 100 hryvnia banknote will be released into circulation on March 9, 2015. The new banknote is the result of a long term project to replace the previous banknote series issued between 2003 and 2007. The new notes will run alongside the previous…
According to various news reports, the Central Bank of Cuba (Banco Nacional de Cuba) has announced that it will be introducing new security features to its banknotes as part of its monetary reform. The denominations affected will be the 20, 50 and 100 pesos and will notably have an updated watermark image. Source: CubaSi
De La Rue has reported that it’s SafeGuard® polymer substrate has been selected by the Central Bank of The Gambia for its new 20 Dalasi banknote denomination. The new banknote is being issued into circulation to commemorate 20 years of governance by the President His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh. De…
Norges Bank, the Central Bank of Norway, has announced that the theme of their new banknote series will feature the sea to reflect its importance for Norway’s economy. Work on the new banknote series, the 8th in total, began in the autumn of 2012. Norges Bank has said that there is a “need to enhance…
20 million notes will be produced in total, which have a vertical design depicting a snowboarder and several venues in the Sochi Olympic Park, including the Fisht Olympic Stadium on the reverse of the note. The national flags of countries participating in the games form part of the design on the front of the note.…
The Bank of Canada has now completed the issue of its first polymer banknote series. The release of the new $5 and $10 polymer banknotes follow the gradual release of the previous $100, $50 and $20 denominations. Like the previous versions, the Bank of Canada state that the main motivation for the change to polymer…
On the 8th October 2013, the US Federal Reserve issued the latest version of the $100 dollar banknote. The note contains several new security features, including Motion™ thread and a colour changing/ optically variable ink. Other features include: Watermark of Benjamin Franklin Embedded security thread which glows pink under Ultraviolet (UV) light Colour shifting “100”…