According to an article in Azernews dated 25 September 2018, the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan has denied rumors that it intends to issue a 100,000-som banknote. At present the largest denomination in circulation is the 50,000-som note (B215) introduced in 2017.Read More…
According to a press release dated 23 May 2018, the Central Bank of Azerbaijan introduced a new denomination, the 200-manat note designed by Crane Currency in the US and printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Germany. The motif of the notes is “the ‘Heydar Aliyev Center’ constructed to the memoryRead More…
According to a 21 February 2018 press release, the organizers of High Security Printing EMEA, Reconnaissance, revealed the 2018 winners of the Regional Banknote of the Year during the gala dinner at the conference in Warsaw, Poland. Read More…
According to a press release dated 22 November 2017, Armenia introduced a new 500-dram note commemorating Noah’s Ark, the vessel that supposedly saved Noah’s family and the all the world’s animals from a biblical flood before coming to rest atop Mount Ararat in modern day Armenia. 300,000 notes were packagedRead More…
Like B146a, but revised front/back, reduced in size, and new date (2017). Prefix AA. Intro: 22.11.2017. Russian press release. Courtesy of Wonsik Kang, Arsentiy Khonin, Albert Vokhmin, and Ömer Yalçinkaya (omeryalcinkayacollectionshop on eBay).Read More…
This note commemorates the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the national currency, the Kyrgyzstan com. The original design reflects the history of the formation of Kyrgyz statehood: from ancient times to the present day. Courtesy of Vladimir Buravlev, Arsentiy Khonin, and Hartmut Fraunhoffer (Banknote-Online).Read More…
On 22 November 2017, the central bank unveiled the following designs for the third family of notes, to be introduced into circulation one year later, on the 25th anniversary of the dram, the national currency. These notes were designed by Edward Kurginyan, Vardan Vardanyan, and Suren Simonyan, but considerable changesRead More…
Like B141b, but no signature at upper left back. Prefix BЛ. Courtesy of Denis Orlov and Arsentiy Khonin.Read More…
Like B210, but new latent image on shield, repositioned registration device, new holographic stripe without laser-etched digits, new color-changing windowed security thread, and smaller repositioned flag at upper right back. Courtesy of Leonid Graschenko (eBay kenvvood).Read More…
Like B401a, but new date (2017). Prefix F, G.Courtesy of Vadim Tislenko and Thomas Augustsson.Read More…