{"id":48783,"date":"2025-12-22T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48783"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:44:06","slug":"bhutan-new-commemorative-500-ngultrum-note-b226a-reported-for-introduction-in-january-2026-duplicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48783","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan new commemorative 1,000-ngultrum note (B227a) confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1820\" height=\"883\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_f.jpg 1820w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_f-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_f-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_f-1536x745.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_f-465x226.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_f-695x337.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1818\" height=\"888\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_r.jpg 1818w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_r-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_r-768x375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_r-1536x750.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_r-465x227.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bhutan_RMA_1000_ngultrum_2025.00.00_B227a_PNL_A_00740387_r-695x339.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1818px) 100vw, 1818px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>B227 <\/strong>(PNL): <strong>1,000 ngultrum<\/strong> (US$14)<br>Orange, brown, blue, and purple. Front: Dzongkha text; Wheel of the Universal Ruler; 1st king, Ugyen Wangchuck, wearing Raven Crown. Back: Dzongkha and English text; dragons and Garuda above Tongsa Dzong, ancestral seat of the Wangchuck dynasty and the historical home of the Tongsa Penlop; two great hornbills perched on branch; seal of the state. Holographic security stripe with dragon grasping jewels. No security thread. Watermark (shadow image): Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. Printer: (De La Rue). 155 x 75 mm. Polymer (Safeguard).<br>a. 2025. Sig. 8: Tshogyel. Prefix A. Intro: 00.01.2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of Alex Zlotin and Thomas Augustsson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B227 (PNL): 1,000 ngultrum (US$14)Orange, brown, blue, and purple. Front: Dzongkha text; Wheel of the Universal Ruler; 1st king, Ugyen Wangchuck, wearing Raven Crown. Back: Dzongkha and English text; dragons and Garuda above Tongsa Dzong, ancestral seat of the Wangchuck dynasty and the historical home of the Tongsa Penlop; two<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48783\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48784,"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-48783","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\/48783","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=48783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49340,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48783\/revisions\/49340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}