Aug-9-2020
Brazil – Spurious notes of 200 reais.
FORGERY – FALSO – COUNTREFAIT – FALSCH WORTHLESS – SIN VALOR – SANS VALEUR – WERTLOS You saw it here...
South America
-
-
Aug-7-2020
Brazil – Color of new banknotes of 200 reais.
You saw it here first! Banco Central do Brasil defined this week the color of the new banknotes of...
-
Jul-30-2020
Brazil -The animal to be shown in the new 200 reais banknote.
It turns out that the “guará” wolf that will appear in the new banknotes of 200 reais (BRL200.1) is not...
-
Jul-29-2020
Brazil – New banknote of 200 reais.
Banco Central do Brasil has announced today that at the end of August it will issue a banknote of 200...
-
Jul-21-2020
Argentina – Bids requested to print 500 pesos notes.
You saw it first here! According to numerous reports S.E. Casa de...
-
Jul-20-2020
Argentina – Plans to outsource currency printing to foreign printers.
You saw it here first! The “perfect storm” caused by the devaluation of...
-
Jul-9-2020
Argentina – Old stock of “Evita” 100 pesos banknotes issued.00.6)_
...
-
Jun-3-2020
Argentina – Watermark variations in current banknotes
The watermark in current banknotes of 500 and 1,000 pesos (ARS500.1 and ARS1,000.1) of the recent series have watermarks that...
-
May-27-2020
Argentina – No 5,000 pesos new banknotes for the time being.
After all the contradictory information, and the controversy on placing Dr Ramón Carrillo on the proposed 5,000 pesos banknote of...
-
May-23-2020
Argentina – More time to redeem 5 pesos banknotes.
Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the Banco Central de la República Argentina has again extended the term for the redemption of...
-
May-20-2020
Argentina – New developments in the saga of the new banknote of 5,000 pesos.
Facundo Carrillo, grandson of Dr. Ramón Carrillo had yesterday a meeting with authorities of DAIA, the Delegation of Jewish Associations...
-
May-18-2020
Argentina – Controversy about figure to be shown on new 5,000 pesos banknote.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has objected to the inclusion of Dr. Ramón Carrillo in the new banknote of 5,000 pesos...
-
May-16-2020
Argentina – More details about the banknote of 5,000 pesos.
In spite of President Alberto Fernández’s recent negative comments about the issuance of a 5,000 pesos banknote (ARS5,000.1), La Nación...
-
May-15-2020
Argentina – Contradictory news about the 5,000 pesos note.
According to several publications, President Alberto Fernández has said that the 5,000 pesos banknote (ARS5,000.1) will not be issued. Perhaps...
-
May-12-2020
Argentina – New banknote of 5,000 pesos.
Faced with the need to issue more currency because of the COVID-19 emergency, the Banco Central de la República Argentina...
-
May-10-2020
Brazil – Possible increase in banknote production.
Banco Central do Brasil is consulting with Casa da Moeda about increasing the production of banknotes, as there seems to...
-
Apr-27-2020
Argentina. Fake news.
A video circulating in social media claims that banknotes of 100...
-
Feb-19-2020
Venezuela – Banknotes to be printed by Goznak.
Bloomberg News had access to a copy of the contract signed in November between the Central Bank of Venezuela and...
-
Feb-11-2020
Argentina – Gender parity in the new banknotes.
Miguel Pesce, President of the Banco Central de la Republica Argentina; and Sergio Massa, President of the Chamber of Deputies...
-
Jan-29-2020
Argentina – Five pesos banknotes redemption extended.
The Banco Central de la República Argentina extended the legal tender status of the three types of 5 pesos banknotes...
-
Jan-8-2020
Argentina – Update on proposed new family of banknotes.
Miguel Pesce, President of the Banco Central de la República Argentina, declared yesterday that the personalities to be included in...
-
Jan-7-2020
Argentina – All 5 pesos banknotes become obsolete at February’s end.
All Argentinian 5 pesos banknotes will lose all value at the end of February 2020. Click here to order the...
-
Dec-22-2019
Argentina – New family of banknotes planned.
Miguel Angel Pesce, presidente of the Banco Central de la República Argentina, confirmed that a new family of banknotes will...
-
Nov-27-2019
Peru – Banknotes of the 1996-2001 issues.
. While the banknotes denominated in “nuevos soles” dated between 1991 and 2006 (PEN10.1/20.1/50.1/100.1/200.1) have legal tender status, some merchants...
-
Nov-17-2019
Argentina – Fernández wants to do away with animals on banknotes.
Alfredo Fernández, President Elect of Argentina, declared today that he is considering doing away with animals on the Argentinian currency,...
-
Jul-29-2019
Argentina – All 5 pesos banknotes are being withdrawn.
We have obtained clarification from the Banco Central de la República Argentina that states that all banknotes of 5 pesos...
-
Jul-26-2019
Argentina – Withdrawal from circulation of 5 pesos banknotes.
The Banco Central de la República Argentina announced today that 5 pesos banknotes issued since 1998...
-
Jul-9-2019
Venezuela – Pictures of the new banknotes of 2019.
These are the photos of the new banknotes of 10,000 (VES10,000.1), 20,000 (VES20,000.1) and 50,000 bolívares soberanos (VES50,000.1) recently issued....
-
Jul-9-2019
Uruguay – New polymer banknotes arriving soon.
The Banco Central del Uruguay is expected to receive this month the shipment of new polymer banknotes of 20 (UYU20.3)...
-
Jun-21-2019
Venezuela – Quality problems in new banknotes.
Postings in social media mention that the new banknotes of 10,000 (VES10,000.1), 20,000 (VES20,000.1) and 50,000 bolivares soberanos (VES50,000.1) are...
-
Jun-12-2019
Venezuela – New banknotes.
The Banco Central de Venezuela announced today that it will issue tomorrow new banknotes of 10,000 (VES10,000.1), 20,000 (VES20,000.1) and...
-
Jun-7-2019
“Peso real”, a proposed common currency.
Argentina and Brazil are considering the creation of a common currency, which may be called “peso real”, declared yesterday Buenos...
-
Apr-29-2019
Ecuador – Promoting the circulation of two dollar bills.
The Banco Central del Ecuador, which dollarized the economy 19 years ago, imported a quantity of United States 2 dollar...
-
Apr-23-2019
BOLIVIA – New banknote.
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, twittered today the picture of the front of the new banknote of 200 bolivianos (BOB200.2)...
-
Apr-22-2019
Bolivia – New 200 bolivianos banknote to be issued tomorrow.
The new banknote of 200 bolivianos (BOB200.2), which completes the new family, will be issued tomorrow. Source: www.eldeber.com.bo Click here...
-
Mar-9-2019
Guyana – New banknote issued March 4.
Bank of Guyana made public its new banknote of 1,000 dollars (GYD1,000.5) issued on March 4. This new banknote is...
-
Feb-24-2019
Bolivia – New banknote of 200 bolivianos to be issued in April.
The new banknote of 200 bolivianos (BOB200.2) will be issued in April. Courtesy: Fernando Tapia, Gabriel’s Numismatic Market, LLC. Click...
-
Feb-22-2019
Venezuela – Larger denominations proposed.
Given the continuous devaluation of the bolívar soberano that makes the largest banknote in circulation, the 500 bolívares soberano...
-
Feb-10-2019
Guyana – Improved 1,000 dollars banknote.
In an ad published today in the Guyana Times, the Bank of Guyana announced that on March 4 it will...
-
Feb-1-2019
Venezuela – New banknotes needed.
As the value of the bolívar soberano keeps dropping, the largest banknote currently in circulation – the 500 bolivares soberanos...
-
Jan-29-2019
Venezuela – Parallel exchange market approved.
A privately owned foreign exchange market was approved yesterday. It is called Interbanex, owned by Spanish investors, and it started...
-
Jan-21-2019
Paraguay – Family of 2017 banknotes completed.
With the release in the first part of January of the denominations of 10,000 (PYG10,000.4E) and 50,000 guaraníes (PYG50,000.4F) all...
-
Jan-17-2019
Venezuela – Banknotes in bolívares soberanos are almost worthless.
Based on todays parallel market rate of 2,930 bolívares soberanos per U.S. dollar, a banknote of 500, the largest of...
-
Jan-15-2019
Bolivia – New banknote of 100 bolivianos
The Banco Central de Bolivia has issued today the new banknote of 100 bolivianos (BOB100.2). It has been printed by...
-
Jan-9-2019
Bolivia – New banknote of 100 bolivianos.
Pablo Ramos Sánchez, President of the Banco Central de Bolivia, announced that the new banknote of 100 bolivianos (BOB100.2) will...
-
Jan-1-2019
Venezuela – Variants In the 200 bolívares soberanos notes of January and March.
Rubén Cheng, of Numismatic Catalog of Venezuela has provided detailed description and illustrations of the differences in the 200 bolívares...
-
Dec-24-2018
Venezuela – Varieties in the Soberanos.
There are varieties in the 50 (VES50.1), 100 (VES100.1), 200 (VES200.1) and 500 bolívares soberanos (VES500.1). These are: 50...
-
Dec-18-2018
Argentina – New banknote.
The Banco Central de la Republica Argentina (BCRA) put into circulation today the new bill of 100 pesos (ARS100.6) with...
-
Dec-17-2018
Paraguay – New banknotes.
The Banco Central del Paraguay is in the process of issuing new banknotes to cope with the demand of years’...
-
Dec-2-2018
Venezuela – Banknotes withdrawn from circulation.
Tareck El Aissami, vicepresident in charge of Economy, announced that tomorrow, December 3, The Central Bank of Venezuela with withdraw...
-
Nov-27-2018
Argentina – New family of banknotes.
The Banco Central de la República Argentina has published an interesting article about its new family of notes depicting the...