According to a press release dated 3 May 2023, these notes are like the preceding issues, but with enhanced security features and new designs featuring “The Big Five” families on the back. The denominations will be released gradually and will circulate in parallel with the preceding issues. B777 (PNL): 10Read More…
B157 (PNL): 20 kina (US$5.95) Red-brown. Front: English text; coat of arms with bird of paradise perched on Kundu drum and ceremonial spear; National Parliament building in Port Moresby. Back: English text; boar head; toea (cowrie shell) necklace from Madang; Toa armband from Central Province; shell ornament from Western Province;Read More…
B240 (PNL): 1,000 com (som) (US$14) Gray-green. Front: Kyrgyz text; ornament with denomination in gold-to-jade OVI; poet Jusup Balasagyn; mountains; diamond pattern as registration device. Back: Kyrgyz text; diamond pattern; Takhti Sulaiman, ancient architectural monument; Sulaiman Mountain. Windowed security thread with demetalized 1000 com. Watermark: Jusup Balasagyn with electrotype 1000.Read More…
B239 (PNL): 500 com (som) (US$7.15) Violet. Front: Kyrgyz text; ornament with denomination in gold-to-jade OVI; “Manas” storyteller Sayakbai Karalaev; mountains; diamond pattern as registration device. Back: Kyrgyz text; diamond pattern; Mausoleum of Manas; mountains. Windowed security thread with demetalized 500 com. Watermark: Sayakbai Karalaev with electrotype 500. Printer: (DeRead More…
B238 (PNL): 200 com (som) (US$2.85) Yellow. Front: Kyrgyz text; ornament with denomination in gold-to-jade OVI; poet and playwright Alykul Osmonov; forested mountains; diamond pattern as registration device. Back: Kyrgyz text; diamond pattern; lines from Osmonov’s “Jenishbek” about Lake Issyk-Kul; mountains. Windowed security thread with demetalized 200 com. Watermark: AlykulRead More…
B1100 (PNL): 500 piso (pesos) (US$9.60) Yellow. Front: Filipino text; crowd at EDSA People Power I in February 1986; Corazon C. Aquino; Benigno Simeon “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr.; Benigno Aquino Jr. monument; seal of Philippine president; Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas seal. Back: English and Filipino text; map; blue-naped parrot; Puerto PrincesaRead More…
Like B1082, but scientific names on back in italics, the year (2017) at left center front in larger font size. 300-dpi scans requested. Courtesy of Peter Mosselberger (Bank Note Museum).Read More…
Like B912, but with serial number in tab of lower margin, without braille dots at upper right front, and lithograph printing. This is a revision to B911a from 2001. Courtesy of Ante Bird and Alex Zlotin.Read More…
B1097 (PNL): 50 piso (pesos) (US$0.95) Red. Front: Filipino text; First National Assembly in 1907; Sergio Osmeña; US General Douglas MacArthur during Leyte Landing in 1944; seal of Philippine president; Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas seal. Back: English and Filipino text; map; maliputo fish (Caranx ignobilis); Taal Lake; Batangas embroidery design.Read More…
In August 2008, the central bank issued new “cheques,” which—due to political, financial, and social reasons—it claims are not banknotes even though they circulate like legal tender and do not require endorsement. They were introduced to replace the array of high-denomination promissory notes which private banks had been issuing toRead More…