{"id":11861,"date":"2012-05-20T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=11861"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:12:24","slug":"south-africa-shreds-3-6-million-defective-100-rand-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=11861","title":{"rendered":"South Africa shreds 3.6 million defective 100-rand notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/Costly-mistake-with-defective-R100-20120520\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article on News24.com dated 20 May 2012<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resbank.co.za\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa Reserve Bank<\/a> shreaded more than 3.6 million 100-rand notes \u00a0printed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crane.se\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crane Currency<\/a>\u2019s Swedish division (Tumba Bruk) because they have the same serial numbers as a batch printed by the South African Bank Note Company. In addition, the notes printed in Sweden aren\u2019t the right color, and they are one millimeter short.<\/p>\n<p>The article doesn&#8217;t state if the defective notes are of the existing series (B760) or the new series featuring Nelson Mandela&#8217;s portrait (B765), which are scheduled for introduction in late 2012. In 2011, the South African Reserve Bank outsourced printing of the 100-rand note to Sweden following the discovery of missing security features on notes previously printed by the South African Bank Note Company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article on News24.com dated 20 May 2012, the South Africa Reserve Bank shreaded more than 3.6 million 100-rand notes \u00a0printed by Crane Currency\u2019s Swedish division (Tumba Bruk) because they have the same serial numbers as a batch printed by the South African Bank Note Company. In addition,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=11861\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,341],"tags":[157],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-11861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa","category-industry","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25296,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions\/25296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}