{"id":18033,"date":"2007-09-25T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=18033"},"modified":"2020-01-07T20:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:57:19","slug":"mauritius-announces-new-banknote-design-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=18033","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius announces new banknote design contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 25 September 2007, Manou Bheenick, governor of the Bank of Mauritius, announced a design competition for a new family of banknotes to be issued in 2009 to celebrate the bank\u2019s 40th anniversary. Under the theme of \u201cBanknotes\u2014Mirrors of our Motherland,\u201d this eighth series of notes should relate to the islands\u2019 history, culture, ecology, industry, architecture, and landscape. Rs30,000 will be awarded to the winner of the best design as chosen by a jury of eight local artists. The competition is open to Mauritian nationals only, and proposals must be submitted by 31 October 2007.The bank will also conduct a study on the Mauritian people\u2019s preferences about the patterns to include on these new notes. \u201cThe idea is to know what the Mauritian people want to see on the banknotes,\u201d said Bheenick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 September 2007, Manou Bheenick, governor of the Bank of Mauritius, announced a design competition for a new family of banknotes to be issued in 2009 to celebrate the bank\u2019s 40th anniversary. Under the theme of \u201cBanknotes\u2014Mirrors of our Motherland,\u201d this eighth series of notes should relate to the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=18033\">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":[2,337],"tags":[133],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-18033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa","category-new-note","tag-mauritius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033","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=18033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23370,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions\/23370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}