On 25 November 2010, the Central Bank of Jordan announced it has a new governor. Faris Sharaf, who replaces Dr. Umayya Toukan. As a result, we may expect to see new signature varieties issued shortly. Courtesy of Mahdi Bseiso.Read More…
Like B212b, but the security thread has six, not five, “windows” that are 4.0-mm long, not 5.5-mm long. Also, the prefix font is different.Courtesy of Sejin Ahn.Read More…
,, Like B133a, but new date (١٤٣٠/2009) and new Governor signature (Muhammad Al-Jaser). Also, the denomination expressed in Arabic in the bars at left and right edge of the front of the note has been slightly modified. In the first issue of this note, the trailing zero was so smallRead More…
, The Central Bank of Yemen introduced a new 1,000-rial note that is similar to the 2004-dated note (B126), but dated 2009 and with improved security features, including the replacement of the holographic stripe on front for Goznak’s Visual Formed Image security thread previously introduced on the 250-rial note ofRead More…
The National Interest has an article dated 17 September 2010 that summarizes a new subscriber-only article in The Monacle in which Chairman Jihadal-Wazir reveals the Palestine Monetary Authority is planning to introduce its own currency, the Palestinian pound, perhaps in 2011.Read More…
, Like B134a, but new date (١٤٣٠/2009) and signatures (Muhammad Al-Jaser and Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Assaf). Courtesy of Dr. Ghassan Samman.Read More…
, Like B135a, but new date (١٤٣٠/2009) and signatures (Muhammad Al-Jaser and Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Assaf). Courtesy of Ghassan Samman.Read More…
, 20 dirhams (US$5.40), 2009. Like B216c, but new date, new signatures, and new coat of arms. Courtesy of Amirali Somji.Read More…
B627 (P112): 50 Syrian pounds (US$0.10) Blue and tan. Front: Arabic text; Ugarit alphabet on cuneiform clay tablet; ancient writing on cuneiform clay tablet from Ebla. Back: English text; Library of Hafiz Al Assad in Damascus; statue of Hafiz Al Assad. Windowed security thread with demetalized CBS 50 and ArabicRead More…
According to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek article dated 16 June 2010, the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a new 100,000-rial (US$10) note on 22 June. Governor Mahmoud Bahmani said the bank will print at least 150 million of the new notes, though he promised it won’t increaseRead More…