{"id":32988,"date":"2021-04-17T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=32988"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:30:00","slug":"aruba-100-florin-note-b124a-named-ibns-bank-note-of-the-year-2019-duplicate-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=32988","title":{"rendered":"Mexico 100-peso note (B715a) named IBNS Bank Note of the Year 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) announces that its voting membership has selected the Banco de Mexico to receive its annual prestigious \u201cBank Note of the Year Award\u201d for 2020.\u00a0 With well over 100 new banknotes released worldwide during 2020, only 24 were deemed of sufficiently new design to be member nominated.\u00a0 Almost from the start, Mexico\u2019s new 100 Peso polymer bill widely led the voting followed by Scotland\u2019s Royal Bank of Scotland 20 Pound entry (Kate Cranston tea room\/squirrels).\u00a0 There was a virtual tie for third place between Northern Ireland\u2019s Ulster Bank (20 Pound flora\/street musicians), the Bahamas (5 Dollar statesman\/junkanoo dancer) and Fiji (50 Dollar 50th Anniversary of Independence).\u00a0 Rounding out the top seven vote getters were the Bank of England (20 Pound Queen\/J.M.W. Turner with painting) and Scotland\u2019s Clydesdale Bank (20 Pound Robert the Bruce\/St. Kilda).<\/p>\n

Now in its 60th year, the IBNS has approximately 2000 members worldwide.\u00a0 As a nonprofit educational organization its objectives are to promote, stimulate and advance the study, collection and dissemination of information related to paper money.\u00a0 From all significant newly designed and widely circulated banknotes released in 2020, the IBNS membership nominated notes from 22 different countries to place on the ballot.\u00a0 Nominees represented 5 continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America), Central America,\u00a0 3 island nations, 2 of which are in the Caribbean, and the Middle East.\u00a0 Past \u201cBank Note of the Year\u201d winners include Aruba (2019), Canada (2018), Switzerland (2017 & 2016), New Zealand (2015), Trinidad & Tobago (2014), Kazakhstan (2013, 2012, 2011), Uganda (2010), Bermuda (2009), Samoa (2008), Bank of Scotland (2007), Comoros (2006), Faeroe Islands (2005) and Canada (2004).<\/p>\n

The Banco de Mexico was both the printer and issuer of this award-winning design banknote, which is part of the bank\u2019s current G Series introduced in 2018.\u00a0 The vertical format note is printed on polymer and features one of Mexico\u2019s national heroines and poet\/writer Sor Juana Indes de la Cruz.\u00a0 The reverse \u201cpiece de resistance\u201d image features a temperate forest ecosystem which is known worldwide as the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.\u00a0 The design continues to highlight Mexican cultural and historic characteristics with new graphic motifs.\u00a0 Produced by the Banco de Mexico\u2019s new printing complex located in Jalisco, which began operation just before the coronavirus pandemic, the banknote has significantly improved security features which coordinate the transition to a polymer substrate.\u00a0 Polymer banknotes continue to be popular IBNS favorites.<\/p>\n

As a first-time winner of the IBNS Bank Note of the Year competition, Mexico\u2019s award-winning entry may provide a template as other countries reconsider how they design and promote new banknotes.\u00a0 The Mexico successful design in eye-pleasing red combines Hispanic architecture, a famous female Hispanic literary figure and a tribute to the world\u2019s fragile ecosystem.\u00a0 The 100 Peso note is slightly narrower than a 20 Euro note and slightly shorter than U.S. greenbacks.\u00a0 The current exchange value of 100 pesos is USD $4.92 or 4.18 Euros as of the date of this announcement.<\/p>\n

The IBNS is open to membership from interested persons in any country.\u00a0 Details concerning all IBNS activities are available at www.theibns.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) announces that its voting membership has selected the Banco de Mexico to receive its annual prestigious \u201cBank Note of the Year Award\u201d for 2020.\u00a0 With well over 100 new banknotes released worldwide during 2020, only 24 were deemed of sufficiently new design to beRead More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,8],"tags":[38],"class_list":["entry","author-owenink","post-32988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-caribbean","category-north-america","category-polymer","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32988","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32992,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32988\/revisions\/32992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}