According to an article on Bernama dated 29 November 2013, Japan’s Ministry of Finance has launched a promotion campaign in the hope of attracting orders to print banknotes and passports for other countries by highlighting Japan’s cutting-edge anti-counterfeit technologies. Japan’s only experience printing notes for other countries was when itRead More…

According to a press release dated 8 November 2013, on 15 November the Central Bank of Sri Lanka began issuing 5 million 500-rupee notes commemorating the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held in Sri Lanka from 15 to 17 November 2013. The note is like the preceding issues (B126), butRead More…

This 50,000-pound note commemorates 70 years of independence for Lebanon. It was issued on 22 November 2013 (the anniversary of the end of French colonial rule in 1943) despite the fact that the French-language back spells independence as it is written in English, rather than the French independance. The CentralRead More…