{"id":16983,"date":"2009-03-07T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=16983"},"modified":"2019-12-03T23:39:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:39:01","slug":"rwandas-100-franc-note-to-cease-being-legal-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=16983","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda&#8217;s 100-franc note to cease being legal tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rwanda_100_2003.09.01_f.jpg alt=rwanda_100_2003.09.01_f.jpg height=232 width=470><\/p>\n<p class='has-larger-font-size'>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200903060157.html\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article in The New Times dated March 6, 2009<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnr.rw\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Bank of Rwanda<\/a> (BNR) has announced that the 100-franc note (US$0.20) will cease to be legal tender starting December 31, 2009. The notes may be exchanged for other notes and coins. BNR Governor Francois Kanimba said that the 100-franc notes currently in circulation are very old (they were first introduced in 2003) and that the central bank has stopped issuing them to the public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in The New Times dated March 6, 2009, the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has announced that the 100-franc note (US$0.20) will cease to be legal tender starting December 31, 2009. The notes may be exchanged for other notes and coins. BNR Governor Francois Kanimba said<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=16983\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[121],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-16983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983","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=16983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16984,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions\/16984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}