{"id":314,"date":"2019-12-22T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2019-12-22T23:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T23:55:29","slug":"ghana-announces-new-100-and-200-cedi-notes-b160-and-b161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Ghana new 100- and 200-cedi notes (B160a and B161a) confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1838\" height=\"934\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ghana_BOG_100_cedis_2019.11.01_B160a_PNL_AA_0238505_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ghana_BOG_100_cedis_2019.11.01_B160a_PNL_AA_0238505_f.jpg 1838w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ghana_BOG_100_cedis_2019.11.01_B160a_PNL_AA_0238505_f-300x152.jpg 300w, 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100vw, 1881px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Due to \u201csustained periods of high inflation and the perennial depreciation of the currency,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bog.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/QA-New-Higher-Denomination-Banknotes-GHS2-Coin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on 29 November 2019 the Bank of Ghana<\/a>\u00a0introduced a new 2-cedi coin, as well as new 100- and 200-cedi notes. Existing 1- and 2-cedi notes remain legal tender, though these denominations will be gradually replaced by coins to reduce costs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zlkl3ExCPLg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Murtaza Karimjee (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africancollectible.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.africancollectible.com<\/a>) and Vygandas Kadzys (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.numisnota.eu\/\">www.numisnota.eu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to \u201csustained periods of high inflation and the perennial depreciation of the currency,\u201d on 29 November 2019 the Bank of Ghana\u00a0introduced a new 2-cedi coin, as well as new 100- and 200-cedi notes. Existing 1- and 2-cedi notes remain legal tender, though these denominations will be gradually replaced by<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=314\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,337],"tags":[23],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-new-note","tag-ghana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21244,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/21244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}