{"id":48779,"date":"2025-12-22T08:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48779"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:45:08","slug":"bhutan-new-commemorative-100-ngultrum-note-b225a-reported-for-introduction-in-january-2026-duplicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48779","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan new commemorative 500-ngultrum note (B226a) confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1759\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_f.jpg 1759w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_f-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_f-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_f-1536x742.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_f-465x225.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_f-695x336.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1759px) 100vw, 1759px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1753\" height=\"839\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_r.jpg 1753w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_r-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_r-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_r-1536x735.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_r-465x223.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_500_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B226a_PNL_A_04249522_r-695x333.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1753px) 100vw, 1753px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>B226 <\/strong>(PNL): <strong>500 ngultrum <\/strong>(US$6.95)<br>Pink, purple, gold, and green. Front: Dzongkha text; cross-vajra, an ancient Buddhist symbol denoting indestructibility and permanent stability; 4th king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, wearing Raven Crown. Back: Dzongkha and English text; seal of the state; Khamsum Yulley Namgyal Chorten; Punakha Dzong (aka Pungtang Dechen Photrang Dzong, meaning \u201cthe palace of great happiness or bliss\u201d); two Bhutan Glory butterflies. Holographic security stripe with dragon grasping jewels. No security thread. Watermark (shadow image): Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. Printer: (De La Rue). 150 x 72 mm. Polymer (Safeguard).<br>a. 2025. Sig. 8: Tshogyel. Prefix A. Intro: 00.01.2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy of Alex Zlotin and Thomas Augustsson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B226 (PNL): 500 ngultrum (US$6.95)Pink, purple, gold, and green. Front: Dzongkha text; cross-vajra, an ancient Buddhist symbol denoting indestructibility and permanent stability; 4th king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, wearing Raven Crown. Back: Dzongkha and English text; seal of the state; Khamsum Yulley Namgyal Chorten; Punakha Dzong (aka Pungtang Dechen Photrang Dzong,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48779\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,337,8,20],"tags":[181],"class_list":["entry","author-owenink","post-48779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-commemorative","category-new-note","category-polymer","category-south-asia","tag-bhutan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779","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=48779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49347,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779\/revisions\/49347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}