Nov-27-2019
European Monetary Union – Christine Lagarde signature ceremony.
Christine Lagarde signs euro banknote in ceremony in Frankfurt. Her signature will appear in all euro notes. Source: Frankfurt Allgemeine...
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Nov-27-2019
Ukraine – New banknotes.
The National Bank of Ukraine is completing its new family of banknotes by the issuance of new ones...
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Nov-25-2019
Czechia – Correction.
The new commemorative banknote of the Czech Republic will be released in 2022, and not in 2020, as we originally...
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Nov-23-2019
Switzerland – Unlimited redemption of old banknotes.
In its session of 19 November the Swiss Federal Council approved the decision to eliminate the time limit for the...
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Nov-22-2019
Czechia – New commemorative banknote.
The Czech National Bank has announced that it will issue in 2022 a new commemorative banknote honoring Karl English, the...
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Nov-14-2019
Norway – New banknote of 1,000 kroner.
Norges Bank issued today, 14 November 2019, its new banknote of 1,000 kroner (NOK1,000-3) “Edition VIII”, which completes its new...
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Nov-7-2019
Scotland – New commemorative banknote.
Bank of Scotland unveiled a new 20 pounds banknote to celebrate the Queensferry crossing over the Firth of Forth (SCO-BS20.5)....
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Nov-2-2019
Libya – Shipment of Libyan notes seized in Malta.
Malta has seized in September a massive shipment of an unofficial Libyan currency believed to have been destined for military...
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Oct-26-2019
Poland – Noted banknote designer passes away.
Andrzej Heidrich, designer of many Polish banknotes and stamps, and book illustrator, died on October 20. Born in Warsaw in...
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Oct-25-2019
Ukraine – New 1,000 hryven banknote issued today.
The National Bank of Ukraine has issued today the new banknotes of 1,000 hryven (UAH1,000.1), its largest denomination, worth approximately...
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Oct-18-2019
Bulgaria – Improved new banknote fo 50 leva.
The National Bank of Bulgaria announced today that it will issue on 1 November 2019 an improved banknote...
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Oct-15-2019
Belarus – Improved banknotes in 2020.
Dmitry Lapko, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the national Bank of Belarus, announced yesterday that in addition to the...
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Oct-13-2019
Norway – New 1,000 kroner banknote to be issued Nov. 14.
Norges Bank will complete its new family of banknotes with the release of the 1,000 kroner denomination (NOK1,000.3) in Bergen...
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Oct-10-2019
England – “Turner” 20 pounds note unveiled.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, unveiled today the new polymer banknote of 20 pounds (GBP-BoE20.5), to be...
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Oct-2-2019
Albania – New banknotes issued.
Bank of Albania has issued on 30 September 2019 its new banknotes of 200 lekë printed on polymer substrate...
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Oct-1-2019
Switzerland – Unlimited redemption for older notes NOT yet approved.
CORRECTION!!! Our posting of 21 June 2019 stating that the Swiss banknotes of the prior issue will be redeemable without...
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Sep-24-2019
Northern Ireland – Paper £5 and £10 banknotes withdrawn from circulation.
According to multiple notices published yesterday the paper banknotes of 5 and 10 pounds issued by Bank of Ireland, Danske...
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Sep-13-2019
Albania – Size of new notes.
The Bank of Albania has informed the sizes of the new banknotes to be issued on September 30. They are:...
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Sep-13-2019
Albania – New family of notes presented.
The Bank of Albania has presented yesterday its new family of banknotes. It consists...
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Sep-3-2019
Switzerland – New banknote of 100 francs presented today.
The Swiss National Bank has presented today the new banknote of 100 francs (CHF100.3) which will be issued on...
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Aug-22-2019
Ulster Bank unveiled its new £20 banknote.
ULSTER Bank’s new £20 note (NIR-UB20.3) features images inspired by Derry’s Halloween celebrations, red-brick terraces, Lough Neagh and native flowers....
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Aug-12-2019
The Netherlands – Limits on cash transactions.
The Ministers of Finance, and Justice and Security submitted in June to the Netherlands’ House of Representatives a project of...
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Aug-1-2019
Romania – New banknote.
The Banca Nationala a Romaniei announced yesterday that it will issue in 2020 a 20 lei new banknote (RON20.1) which...
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Jul-16-2019
England – Secret code hidden in Bank of England new 50 pounds note.
The ribbon with 0’s and 1’s found in the design of the new banknote of 50 pounds (GBP50.4) honoring...
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Jul-15-2019
England – Details on new 50 pounds banknote revealed.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, revealed that the new banknote of 50 pounds (GBP50.4) will have the...
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Jul-10-2019
Ukraine – Font rights problem on new 1,000 hryven banknote.
Designer Bogdan Ghai has revealed in his Facebook page that the designers of the soon to be issued banknote of...
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Jul-8-2019
Albania – Details on new family of banknotes.
Virjon Lalollari, Director of the Bank of Albania Issue Department, has confirmed to us today that only the new 200...
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Jul-5-2019
Scotland – Clydesdale Bank plc to change name.
Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, as well as app-based bank B, will all be rebranded as Virgin Money by the end...
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Jul-5-2019
Gibraltar – New requirement for the redemption of outmoded banknotes.
The Treasury of the Government of Gibraltar will only redeem mutilated or outmoded banknotes to persons having an account with them....
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Jul-4-2019
Albania – New family of banknotes.
Virjon Lalollari, Head of the Issue Department of Banka e Shqipërisë (Bank of Albania), announced that new banknotes of 200...
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Jun-29-2019
Russia – Banknotes to be varnished.
Bank Rossiya, the central Bank of Russia, has decided to apply a coat of varnish to the notes of 100...
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Jun-27-2019
Poland – New commemorative banknote.
Narodowy Bank Polski will issue on October 2 a new banknote of 19 (sic) zlotych (PLN19.1) commemorative of the Centennial...
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Jun-25-2019
Ukraine – New Banknote.
The National Bank of Ukraine has presented today a new banknote of 1,000 hryven (UAH1,000.1), which will be issued on...
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Jun-21-2019
Switzerland – Older banknotes redeemable without time limit.
The Federal Government decided that the Swiss National Bank will continue to redeem without time limit the banknotes of the...
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May-30-2019
Poland – New improved banknote
Narodowy Bank Polski will issue tomorrow May 31, 2019 a banknote of 100 zlotych (PLN100.2B) dated 14 December 2018, printed...
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May-27-2019
European Monetary Union – High technology on new banknotes.
New banknotes of 100 (EUR100.2) and 200 euros (EUR200.2) banknotes will be issued tomorrow. ‘The banknotes make use of...
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May-25-2019
Albania – New polymer banknote.
The new banknotes of 200 lekë (ALL200.3) to be issued this year will be printed on polymer substrate. Courtesy: Banka...
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May-24-2019
Hungary – Banknotes withdrawn.
The following banknotes will soon cease to be legal tender. All will be redeemable at the counters of the Magyar...
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May-24-2019
European Monetary Union – New 100 and 200 euro banknotes.
The European Central Bank will issue next Thursday 28 May the new banknotes of 100 (EUR100.2) and 200 euros (EUR200.2)....
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May-20-2019
Belarus – New banknotes issued today.
The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus has released today new banknotes of 5 (BYN5.2) and 10 rubliei (BYN10.2)...
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May-10-2019
North Macedonia – Change of country name on banknotes.
Anita Angelovska-Bezovska, governor of the Central Bank, announced that the first new banknotes reflecting the country’s change of name to...
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May-10-2019
North Macedonia – Vardar river flows up on 100 denari banknote.
In 1689 Austro Hungarian general Piccolomini burned Skopje to the ground, but a view of Skopje has been preserved in the...
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May-6-2019
Denmark – Variety on 50 kroner DKK50.6
DKK 50.6A ...
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May-2-2019
European Monetary Union – New Prefix Letter
The former printing works of the Bulgarian National Bank have been bought by Oberthur Fiduciaire AD. The euro banknotes to...
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Apr-30-2019
Belarus – New banknotes.
The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus announced that it will present its new improved banknotes of 5 (BYN5.1B)...
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Apr-24-2019
Northern Ireland – First Trust Bank cease to be legal tender in 2022.
First Trust Bank has decided to stop issuing its own banknotes, which will remain legal tender until 30 June 2022....
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Apr-15-2019
Switzerland – Interesting video on Swiss banknote printing.
An interesting video found in youtube shows the process of printing the new family of banknotes. Source: youtube Click here...
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Apr-12-2019
Scotland – Law proposed to make Scottish banknotes legal tender in the United Kingdom.
Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democratic MP, has proposed that Scottish notes should be made “legal tender” in all parts of the...
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Mar-5-2019
Switzerland – New banknote of 1,000 francs presented today.
The Swiss National Bank presented today its new banknote of 1,000 francs (CHF1,000.3), which will be available on March 13...
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Mar-1-2019
Belarus seeks Monetary Union with the Russian Federation.
Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus, proposed the creation of a common ruble with the Russian Federation, but a separate one,...
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Feb-28-2019
Northern Ireland – Ulster Bank notes pictures.
The back of the new polymer banknotes of 5 (NIR-UB5.5) and 10 pounds (NIR-UB10.3) issued yesterday by Ulster Bank were...