{"id":13497,"date":"2011-06-25T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2019-12-03T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:47:14","slug":"zambia-contemplating-changes-to-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=13497","title":{"rendered":"Zambia contemplating changes to currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='has-larger-font-size'>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106210672.html\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article in the Times of Africa dated 21 June 2011<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boz.zm\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank of Zambia<\/a> is contemplating replacing the paper 500- and polymer 1,000-kwacha notes with coins, and issuing notes larger than the current highest denomination of 50,000 kwacha. The bank is also considering using polymer for a higher denomination than the 1,000-kwacha note. Nothing is official yet, but the new measures could take effect in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Richard Miranda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the Times of Africa dated 21 June 2011, the Bank of Zambia is contemplating replacing the paper 500- and polymer 1,000-kwacha notes with coins, and issuing notes larger than the current highest denomination of 50,000 kwacha. The bank is also considering using polymer for a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=13497\">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":[2,8],"tags":[126],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-13497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa","category-polymer","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497","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=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13498,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}