The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has unveiled the designs of the new £5 and £10 polymer banknotes which are to begin circulating in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Banknote images courtesy of the Royal Bank of Scotland The notes are printed on De La Rue’s Safeguard® polymer substrate and includes their SPARK® Orbital™ optically variable…
The Banco Central del Uruguay (BCU) has issued a new 2000-pesos cotton paper banknote containing a variety of updated security features. The Series B banknote was issued on 27 April 2016 and will circulate alongside the current Series A denomination last issued on 1 October 2003. The note is the second of the new Series B…
The Bank of England has confirmed that the new £5 polymer banknote will be issued in September 2016. The new banknote will be the first of three new polymer banknotes to be issued by the Bank, consisting of the £5, £10 and £20 banknote denominations. On the 2nd June full details of the new five pound…
Yesterday, the Bank of Russia issued a statement confirming that it plans to supplement its banknotes with two additional denominations: the 200 and 2,000 rubles. The new banknotes, which are expected to enter circulation by the end of 2017, are being introduced to make cash payments easier for its citizens, citing that they will help to reduce the…
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has revealed the design of the new $5 banknote denomination which is to enter circulation on 1 September 2016. The new denomination is the first to be revealed of the next generation of banknotes, which will eventually replace the current series of notes that began circulating in 1992. During the development…
The new 500 hryvnia banknote will begin circulating today following its issue by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Director of the NBU Cash Circulation Department, Mr Viktor Zaivenko, said that today’s issuance marks the continued efforts by the NBU to revamp the design of the banknote series designed between 2003 and 2007 as part of…
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has today revealed new $20, $50 and $100 banknotes. The notes complete the seventh series of banknotes called Brighter Money, joining the $5 and $10 notes which began circulating in October last year. The new banknotes were presented at Government House by the Governor-General, Lt Gen the Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae,…
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has unveiled the new 50 franc banknote, the first of the banknotes from the long awaited ninth series. The design focuses on the element of wind. The note, which is 70mm by 137mm, is made using Landqart’s Durasafe® substrate composed of a central transparent polymer layer between two cotton paper layers…
Poland’s Central Bank, the Naradowy Bank Polski, will issue a new collector 20 zloty banknote on the 12th April 2016 to commemorate the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland. The note, which was designed by Kristin Michalczuk and printed by the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW S.A.), contains several modern security features, including De La Rue 3D lens technology based security…
A press release from the Colombian Central Bank, the Banco De La República, has confirmed that a new 100,000 peso banknote was introduced on the 31 March 2016. The note is the first of a new series of banknotes issued by the Central Bank, and is an additional denomination to the previous banknote series which consisted…