Apr-30-2025
Bangladesh – Critical currency scarcity.
Bangladesh Bank has 15,000 crore (= BDT150,000 million = USD1,232 million) face value in banknotes of the previous series in...
Tag Archive: Asia
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Apr-24-2025
Lebanon – Parliament allows the printing of 500,000 and 1 million livres banknotes.
Today 24 April 2025 the Lebanese Parliament modified the Banking Law to allow the printing of banknotes of 500,ooo (LBP500,000.1)...
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Apr-6-2025
Syria – Syrian banknotes to be printed again in Western Europe.
Previous sanctions on Syria, forced the Central Bank to have their banknotes printed by Goznak in Russia. The lifting of...
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Mar-25-2025
Kyrgyzstan – National currency to be printed locally.
An article in Times of Central Asia with a byline by Sergey Kwan published today informs that the Bishkek based...
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Mar-24-2025
United Arab Emirates – New banknote of 100 dirhams completes new family.
The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has issued today a new banknote of 100 dirhams (AED100.10) which completes...
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Mar-17-2025
Australia – Royals replaced in new AUD5 banknote.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has revealed that the theme of the new banknote of 5 dollars (AUD5.7), called “Connection...
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Mar-14-2025
Iran – New Iran cheque
Iran’s Central Banks announced yesterday 13 March 2025 the release of a new “Iran cheque” of 2 million rials (IRR2,000,000.2.) ...
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Feb-21-2025
Saudi Arabia adopts currency symbol for the Saudi riyal.
King Salman approved the new Saudi Arabian riyal currency symbol. Source: Saudi Arabian Central Bank. Courtesy: Dr. Wolfgang Schuster. Order...
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Feb-7-2025
Russian Federation – New banknotes update.
The Central Bank of Russia has informed today 7 February 2025 that its new banknotes of 50 rubles (RUB50.3,) and 500...
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Jan-2-2025
Taiwan – Baseball stars may replace student baseball players on TWD500 banknotes.
William Lai, Taiwan’s President, said that he will push to put in the 500 yuan note the National baseball team...
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Dec-19-2024
Philippines – New polymer banknotes presented to President Marcos.
The Central Bank of the Philippines has presented today 19 December 2024 the new polymer banknotes which complete the new...
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Dec-17-2024
Mongolia – New variety of 5,000 tugruk banknote.
A new banknote of 5,000 tugruk (MNT5,000.5) has been recently issued. It has a golden oval at the lower right...
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Dec-5-2024
Philippines – New details about the polymer banknotes.
The new polymer banknotes to be issued early next year will be in denominations of 50 (PHP50.4), 100 (PHP100.5) and...
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Dec-4-2024
Philippines – New polymer banknotes in 2025.
A new family of polymer banknotes will be placed in circulation in the first quarter of 2025. They will co-circulate...
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Dec-4-2024
Bangladesh – New currency with “July Revolution” graffiti coming soon.
The Bangladesh Bank and the government have given their approval to the printing of new banknotes commemorating the “July Revolution”...
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Apr-16-2024
Japan – Long voyage for the commodity used to make the substrate for the new banknotes.
Todays edition of the New York Times has an interesting article about argeli, a wild shrub found in the Himalayas,...