The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) announces that its voting membership has selected the Central Bank of Aruba to receive its annual prestigious “Bank Note of the Year Award” for 2019. With well over 100 new banknotes released worldwide during 2019, only 22 were deemed of sufficiently new design toRead More…
Notes with prefix FF appear to be printed on a different substrate than notes with prefix FC, although both are dated 2016 with the same signatures. Clearly the notes are not polymer, but may be composite substrate or varnished paper. If you have any 2016-dated 50-peso dominicano notes, please compareRead More…
On 9 December 2019, the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago introduced a new 100-dollar note on polymer substrate with significantly enhanced security. The polymer 100-dollar notes replaced the preceding paper notes, which lost their legal tender status on 31 December 2019. On 21 February 2020, the bank unveiled conceptRead More…
Like B549c, but new date (1 FEBRUARI 2019), and new printer imprint (GD). Courtesy of Dennis Hengeveld and Eric Malec (Memorabilia Marketplace on eBay).
Like B546b, but new signature (Gersie), new date (1 FEBRUARI 2019), and new printer imprint (GD). Courtesy of Dennis Hengeveld and Eric Malec (Memorabilia Marketplace on eBay).
While working on coverage of the private bank issues in Trinidad and Tobago, we came across this delightful vignette from the back of a Union Bank of Halifax 20-dollar note provisionally overprinted for Trinidad in 1904. Post a comment below if you can correctly identify the breed of dog. BonusRead More…
Like B123a, but new signatures (Francis/Higgs/Smiley-Butler). This signature variety had been confirmed in specimen form, but unconfirmed as issued note until offered by Stacks Bowers at auction.
Attendees of the National Heroes Day celebrations on 27 January 2020 were given new 1-dollar notes with a commemorative logo and a descriptive flyer. The note entered public circulation at face value the following day. Courtesy of James Bradly Huang.
On 9 December 2019, the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago introduced a new 100-dollar note on polymer substrate with significantly enhanced security. The bank intends to expand the range of polymer notes to the other denominations (1 to 50 dollars) in March 2020. The polymer notes will replace the precedingRead More…
