New Barbados Banknotes 2013

Central Bank of Barbados
Press Release
May 2, 2013

For the first time in 40 years, the Central Bank of Barbados is issuing redesigned banknotes. This new series, with its bold, modern design and vibrant hues, was launched on May 2, 2013.

Like the 2007 series, the new notes are being issued in six denominations – $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 – and all denominations are 150mm x 65mm. The basic colours also remain the same.

The Central Bank continues to honour those outstanding Barbadians previously featured on our banknotes, but the reverse image has been changed. The new vignettes are specific to the denomination and are now linked to the person featured on the portrait.

To help the visually impaired and fully blind differentiate between denominations, tactile marks have been included on the new banknotes. The number of marks increases by one as the value of the note increases, from one dot for the $2 to six dots for the $100.

In addition to the revamped design, the new series has both upgraded and new security features that will make the notes more difficult for counterfeiters to copy and easier for the public to authenticate.

Take a few minutes to get familiar with the new design and to learn the security features of the new notes so that you will be confident in your ability to tell the difference between a real note and a fake.

Remember that even with new-look notes in circulation, all notes issued by the Central Bank of Barbados – from 1973 to the present – remain legal tender and can and should continue to be used and accepted islandwide.

$2 note (John Redman Bovell)

$5 note (Sir Frank Worrell)

$10 note (Charles Duncan O’Neal)

$20 note (The Right Excellent Samuel Jackman Prescod)

$50 note (The Right Excellent Errol Barrow)

$100 note (The Right Excellent Sir Grantley Adams)

Thailand Issues New 20 Baht Series 16 Banknote

The Bank of Thailand will issue a new 20 Baht banknote on April 1, 2013. The new note in the second note in the 16th Series issued. The first is a 50 Baht note issued on January 18, 2012.

Front: The portrait of King Rama IX in the Royal House of Chakri gown

Back: The images of the royal statue of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great seated on the Manangkhasila Asana Throne, the invention of the Thai script, the Ramkhamhaeng stele, ancient Thai script Lai Sue Thai, the grievance hearing, the Bell of King Ramkhamhaeng, and Sangkhalok Wares.

The note measures 72 x 138 mm, the same size as the current one.

The new notes have high-technology anti-counterfeiting measures. They also have Braille so the blind can identify the value. The watermark of Thai numeral 20 is specially transparent when held against the light; the green security thread embedded into the paper will change to the color of red-purple when user tilts the new banknotes; and the use of raised features and matching element techniques on denomination numeral. In addition, the banknotes were made of better paper quality to provide the longer life cycle

The 20 Baht banknotes are the most commonly circulated among the five denominations of 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 Baht.

Angola Issues New Series of Banknotes in 2013

The National Bank of Angola will put into circulation a new series of banknotes dated 2012. Denominations of 50, 100, 200 and 500 Kwanzas notes will be issued on March 21, 2013, and denominations of 1000, 2000 and 5000 Kwanzas on May 31, 2013.

The front of the notes features conjoined busts of Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Antonio Agostinho Neto, the two former Presidents of Angola. The back features famous Angolian waterfalls: the Cuemba Falls on 50 Kwanzas, the Binga Falls on 100 Kwanzas, the Tchimbue Falls on 200 Kwanzas, the Andulo Falls on 500 note Kwanzas, the Kalandula Falls on 1000 Kwanzas, the Dande Falls on 2000 Kwanzas and the Kapanda Dam on 5000 Kwanzas.

Security features include embossed text, watermark, metallic thread, color displacement and considerable improvement of the paper.

Rare early Australian banknotes may fetch $5.5m at sale

news.com.au
February 6, 2013

A RARE complete set of the first Australian banknotes to be issued following Federation is expected to sell for upwards of $5.5 million.

It is the first time a private set of eight Collins/Allen cancelled specimen banknotes has been offered for sale.

The notes date from 1913 and 1914 and include a 10-shilling note as well as a 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and a 1000-pound note, which features a flock of sheep.

The sale, which is expected to set a new record for a set of Australian banknotes, will mark the 100th anniversary of their printing.

The notes are known as cancelled specimens because they are marked with a large "x" and are perforated with "cancelled".

Such notes were sent to central banks around the world so officials could familiarise themselves with the new currency before its public release.

They are named after the two secretaries to the Treasury whose signatures appear on them, James Collins and George Allen. The private sale is being organised by Western Australia's The Rare Coin Company, which has spent the past four years assembling the set on behalf of two collectors.

Rare Coin Company managing director Rob Jackman said he had already fielded a number of inquiries about the sale from around the world.

Canada prints 'wrong' maple leaf on bank notes

Mark Carney must have expected all sorts of criticism ahead of becoming the Governor of the Bank of England - but perhaps not from a bunch of botanists.

By Louise Armitstead
3:51PM GMT 21 Jan 2013

The boss of the Bank of Canada, who takes over from Sir Mervyn King this summer, is under fire for issuing new bank notes depicting the “wrong species” of maple leaf.

Rather than a native leaf from the national emblem, the currency team at the Bank of Canada have printed $20, $50 and $100 bank bills with a Norwegian maple instead.

Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre botanist Sean Blaney told reporters: “It’s really hard to deny the image is of a Norway maple.”

Julian Starr, a botany professor at the University of Ottawa said: “I would have said immediately that it would be best to make it look more like a native maple leaf. I mean this to me is just ... wrong."

Julie Girard, currency spokesperson at the Bank of Canada, insisted there had been no mistake.

She told The Daily Telegraph: “When we designed the maple leaf, we didn’t want to represent one species, we wanted a maple leaf that was not specific so that Canadians from all the different regions could identify it...It is a stylised representation of a maple leaf.”

She added: “I cannot comment on what Mark Carney may or may not think of the maple leaf. But it is not a Norwegian maple.”

European Monetary Union Unveiled New 5 Euro Note

European Central bank
10 January 2013

Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), today unveiled the Europa series €5 banknote. The unveiling was the highlight of the opening of the “New Face of the Euro” exhibition, which is being held at the Archaeological Museum in Frankfurt am Main from 11 January to 10 March 2013.

The new €5 banknote has benefited from advances in banknote technology since the first series was introduced over ten years ago. It includes some new and enhanced security features. The watermark and hologram display a portrait of Europa, a figure from Greek mythology – and hence the name of this series of banknotes. An eye-catching “emerald number” changes colour from emerald green to deep blue and displays an effect of the light that moves up and down. Short raised lines on the left and right edges of the banknote make it easier to identify the banknote, especially for visually impaired people.

These security features are planned to be included in all the new banknotes. They are easy to check using the “feel, look and tilt” method.

The new series has the same “ages and styles” design and dominant colours as the first series. The €5 will be the first banknote to be issued, starting on 2 May 2013. The other denominations, i.e. €10, €20, €50, €100, €200 and €500, will be introduced over the next few years, in ascending order.

The first series will initially circulate alongside the new banknotes, but will gradually be withdrawn and eventually cease to be legal tender. The date when this occurs will be announced well in advance. However, the banknotes of the first series will retain their value indefinitely and can be exchanged at euro area national central banks at any time.

Images of new Libya banknotes published

According to The Libya Report dated 04-12-2012, new 1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 Libyan Dinar banknotes are expected to come into circulation from early 2013.