On 25 August 2005 Danmark's Nationalbank introduces a new, a more secure 50-krone banknote with a hologram and fluorescent colours. The motifs remain unchanged. The new 50-krone banknote completes the upgrading of the Danish banknote series. For additional information see Denmark National Bank Press Release 24 August 2005
Format 125 mm x 72 mm. Issued on 25. August 2005.
Hologram and fluorescent colours:
The metallic hologram on the face of the banknote alternately shows the figure 50, the Roman numeral L and a flower. Fluorescent colours, which are visible under ultraviolet light, are used on both sides of the banknote. On the face, a centaur becomes visible under ultraviolet light, and on the reverse the green colour shines, particularly in the ring on the right-hand side of the banknote.
The portrait of Karen Blixen: The face of the banknote bears a portrait of the writer Karen Blixen (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962). She is acclaimed for e.g. Seven Gothic Tales (1935) and her memoirs Out of Africa (1937). The face of the banknote is also decorated with flowers, of which Karen Blixen was very fond.
The centaur on the reverse: The motif on the reverse of the 50-krone banknote is inspired by a stone relief from Landet Church on the island of Tåsinge.
The 50-krone banknote bears the word "femti", not "halvtreds" which is the usual Danish word for "fifty". Femti is a numeral used on cheques and giro payment orders. Danmarks Nationalbank first used it on the 50-krone banknote issued in 1957, and the present banknote is thus the third to bear this word
The Bank of Korea (BOK) Wednesday unveiled the design for the new 5,000-won banknote and its anti-forgery features.
Printing will begin on Monday at the newly-built minting lines of the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation in Kyongsan, North Kyongsang Province.
The BOK said it will issue the new bills early next year. The specimens of the new 10,000-won and 1,000-won bills will be unveiled in the first half of next year, the central bank said.
The bank used hologram technology in the design of the 5,000-won banknote. Depending on the angle it is seen in, the hologram shows the images of the Korean map and elements of the yin and yang symbol, the taegeuk in Korean. It also used special ink on the number 5,000 in bottom right-hand corner of the bill’s reverse side, appearing different colors depending on the angle in which it is seen.
On the reverse side, the bank wrote the letters ``5,000 won’’ and ``Bank of Korea,’’ discernable only by a microscope. The note has an unexposed fluorescent silver strip on both sides. The color of the 5,000-won note can also appear reddish-yellow from its usual yellowish brown.
In addition, the bank changed the shape of the BOK governor’s seal at the center of all banknotes from a circular to a rectangular shape for the first time since banknotes were introduced in 1950.
The red, circular-shaped seal has been considered one of the remaining vestiges of Japanese imperialism. After its establishment in June 1950, the BOK began issuing bills that were modeled on Japanese bills. The color of the seal was also changed from red into reddish-yellow.
The reported number of bogus 5,000-won banknotes shot up 1,301.5 percent to 4,639 during the first half of the year, compared to 331 over the same period in 2004. The BOK has said this was due to insufficient anti-forgery features on the 5,000-won note.
The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday passed the first reading of a government bill designed to make the country's currency, the metical, more manageable, by lopping off the last three digits.
The bill establishes a rate of conversion of one to a thousand. Thus the current 1,000 metical coin will be worth one metical in what the government refers to as the "new family" of the currency. The largest current banknote, for 500,000 meticais, will be worth 500 meticais in the "new family". The metical was introduced in 1980 to replace the colonial currency, the escudo, and started off at parity with the escudo, and an exchange rate of about 40 to the US dollar. In those days the smallest coin was for 50 centavos (half a metical), and the largest note had the face value of 1,000 meticais.
But huge devaluations in the late 1980s and early 1990s, pushed the exchange rate up until it eventually reached the current 29,000 meticais to the dollar. Small items cost thousands of meticais, and even the statutory minimum wage is now over a million meticais.
Introducing the bill, Finance Minister Manuel Chang argued in favour of knocking off the last three zeroes, on grounds of efficiency and convenience. Book-keeping is more difficult, and more prone to errors, when sums have to be written in millions or billions. Companies, he said, found that the columns in their books were just not wide enough to accommodate all the zeroes. Certain computer programmes could not be used for Mozambican accounts because there were too many digits.
Chang said that, with inflation fairly low (it is expected to be well under ten per cent this year), and with the macro- economic stability of recent years, the time had come to adjust the currency.
The bill gives the Bank of Mozambique the power to design the new notes and coins, which should enter circulation in January. For a transitional period the old notes and the new notes will both be used, and shops and other businesses must express their prices in both old and "new" meticais.
"Reducing the number of digits will not affect purchasing power", Chang insisted. All that was involved was a mathematical operation of dividing by a thousand. As the old notes come into banks, so they will be withdrawn from circulation. This, Chang said, had no implications either for the state budget or for the budget of the Bank of Mozambique.
Every year the Bank of Mozambique withdraws old notes and issues new ones, paid for out of its own budget. The only difference this time is that the notes will bear different designs.
In fact, the Minister argued, issuing costs could be cut with the new notes, which will be of better quality and will last longer.
Chang stressed that the name of the currency remains the same - the metical. Knocking off the zeroes was, in his view, just an accounting operation, which did not mean that Mozambique was switching to a new currency. This was the third metical "family" - the second, Chang reminded deputies, happened after the Constitution of 1990 changed the name of the country from the "People's Republic of Mozambique" to the "Republic of Mozambique". The banknotes issued after this decision were different because they bore the country's new name.
But the opposition Renamo-Electoral Union coalition insisted that the government was changing the currency, and since the currency is established in the constitution, this was equivalent to a constitutional amendment - and thus it needed a two thirds majority in the Assembly.
"How is this not an alteration of the currency ?", asked Renamo deputy Jose Manteigas. "Implicitly you are saying there will be two currencies in circulation. Is this an attempt by the current government to distinguish itself from the former one ?" Luis Boavida demanded to see the design of the new notes and coins. "We're being asked to approve something to which we have not been given access", he claimed.
Chang retorted that the only thing the government was taking to the Assembly was the conversion rate of 1,000 to one.
Everything else (including the design of notes and coins) was in the hands of the central bank.
"The name of the currency is the same", he said. "We don't want to change the currency. We just want to change the number of zeroes".
Renamo also complained that banknotes carry the national emblem, and the emblem is under discussion in the Assembly. Jose Palaco suggested this was a way for the Frelimo majority to sabotage discussion of the emblem.
Others argued that costs would be incurred - because new notes would be printed with the existing emblem, then another set of notes would be required when the emblem was changed.
But in fact, there is no legal requirement for the Bank of Mozambique to put the emblem of the Republic on the notes at all.
When it came to a vote, Renamo insisted on the "prior question" of a two-thirds majority. Was this a substantive change to the currency which required such a majority ?
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The majority Frelimo Party did not think so, and so Renamo lost that vote by 155 to 79.
On the first reading of the bill itself, the Renamo deputies all abstained, and so it was passed by 155 votes to none, with 79 abstentions.
anbei möchte ich die neue Banknote der Bulgarischen Nationalbank vorstellen, und zwar die 2 Lewa Note 2005, die erst vor kurzem erschienen ist.
Der Wert entspricht ca. 1 Euro, da der Lew an die DM und seit 2002 an den Euro gebunden ist, wobei der Kurs 1 Euro =1,95583 Lewa wie bei der DM ist.
Hier weitere Infos von der Seite der Bulgarischen Nationalbank:
2 levs
2005
An engraving of Pagisios of Chiliandar is the major item on the obverse side. The background depicts the Zografou Monastery on Mount Athos, the Monastery Seal, and the interior of Pagisios' monastic cell.
Pagisios of Chiliandar (1722 - 1773), the man who kindled the spark of the Bulgarian National Revival, served in Holy Orders at the monastery of Chiliandar on Mount Athos. He authored the "Historiae Sclavo-Bulgaricus": the first work of modern Bulgarian letters and harbinger of Bulgarians' spiritual emancipation and national reawakening.
The reverse side shows a facsimile of the Zografou draft of the of the "Historiae Sclavo-Bulgaricus" with a list of Bulgarian rulers. This is overprinted with impressions of Tsar Kalogiannis Ring Seal and three seals with the images of Bulgarian Sovereigns Mihail Shishman, Svetoslav Terter and Tsar Ivan Asen II. The right side shows Hristofor Zhefarovich's lion rampant with the names of Bulgarian rulers from the First and Second Empires overprinted in microscopic lettering, Bottom right appears Bulgaria's Coat of Arms with three lions couchant, as published in the Gruenberg Heraldic Compendium of 1483.
Background colour - violet.
Paper - 100% cotton, in doublesided blue tones.
Dimensions - 116 x 64 mm.
Security Features
Anti-copy Stripe - a hologram stripe consisting of rhomboid elements which change their colour when seen from different angles.
Security Thread - a thread incorporated in the banknote paper with initials BNB appearing as a negative microprint.
Watermark - a half-tone silhouette of a rampant lion.
Fluorescence - elements of the pattern, serial numbers and fibres in the paper fluoresce under UV light.
Transparent register element - when the banknote is held against the light the digit "2" is seen in a square checkered field.
Microprint on the obverse - to the left of the portrait: the text PAGISIOS OF CHILIANDAR;
text 2 LEVS printed within the boundaries of the denomination digit "2"; vertical lines starting from the digit "2".
Microprint on the reverse - The image of the lion features the names of Bulgarian tsars IVAN ALEXANDER MIHAIL III SHISHMAN...
The obverse of the banknote features the embossed portrait, the texts BULGARIAN NATIONAL BANK, TWO LEVS), the vignette, and the digit of the denomination "2" on the anti-copy stripe.
Designation for blind people - two embossed rectangles.
Quellen : BNB, 2005
mika-r hat diese Bilder (verkleinerte Versionen) angehängt:
" The Banknote of 100 Hryvnias Denomination (2005)
On the face side of the note there is a portrait of Taras Shevchenko copied from his self-portrait painted in 1840-1841. On the reverse side of the note – there is the Chernecha mountain landscape near Chercasy and the figures of a kobzar (Ukrainian bard playing the kobza) and a guide boy.
Taras Shevchenko (1814-1841) is a prominent Ukrainian poet, artist and thinker whose activities culminated the formation of the new Ukrainian literature. The corpus of his poetry Kobzar has been published in more than 100 languages.
The Chernecha mountain landscape near Chercasy and the figures of the kobzar and the guide boy. Taras Shevchenko has been buried in Kaniv on the Chernecha mountain. The figures of the kobzar and the boy are a fragment of the picture by Taras Shevchenko. In his work the painter showed a type of the folk poet singer describing the people life, their joys, sufferings, history.
На початок сторінки Security elements for visual detection
The banknote is printed on the tinted paper of olive color which is the dominating color of the design of the banknote.
Banknote size (75x142) mm.
1. Watermark
A multi-tone portrait, formed by the internal structure of paper, has a fixed position on the banknote and becomes visible when the banknote is held up to the light. Repeats the portrait printed on the face of the note.
1a. Light Watermark Element
Imprint of the numerical indication of the denomination is visible when looking at the banknote against the light.
2. Optically Variable Ink
The numerical indication of the denomination (100) printed with the ink changing its color when viewing at different angles: crimson-violet in perpendicular position and olive-green at a sharp angle.
3. Coded Security Thread
A fully embedded into the paper polymer coded thread with the following transparent direct and inversed images: “100 ГРН”, a trident and the underlined denomination “100”.
4. Latent (Hidden) Images
A numerical indication of the denomination and a word “ГРИВЕНЬ” becomes visible when the banknote is tilted at a sharp angle to the light.
5. Relief Images
Graphic elements on the face of the banknote are printed in special printing when the ink is raised above the paper surface and can be felt by touch: a) the sign for the blind; b) the portrait; d) inscriptions; e) IZARD.
6. See -Through Element
Printed elements on the face and on the back of the banknote which complement each other and form the letter “Y” when the note is held up to the light.
7. “Orloff” Printing
A special type of printing which forms a pattern with the ink of different colors ensuring an abrupt change of one color into another without intermittence and displacement of graphic elements of the pattern (lines, planes).
8. Microtext
Repeated inscriptions which can be read with magnifying glass.
9. Rainbow Printing
Special type of printing ensuring a smooth change of one color into another without intermittence and displacement of graphic elements of the pattern.
10. Serial Number
The serial number is printed in high printing with black inks having magnetic properties.
11. Serial Number
The serial number printed with red inks glowing under the UV light in yellow-red color.
12. Antiscanning Grid
Thin lines placed at different angles which form a moire pattern when copied or scanned.
13. Security Fibers
Chaotically embedded into the paper invisible security fibers glowing in red and green colors under the UV light.
14. Security thread
The 15 mm parts of the thread glow in green-yellow and blue colors (except the edges of the note)."
Am 01.01.2006 trat die Währungsreform in Kraft und es wird folgende neue Banknoten und münzen geben: siehe Abbildung.
wissenswert: die Banknoten sehen dem Euro sehr ähnlich, auch das neue Manat-Währungssymbol, zumal die Scheine von dem bekannten österreichischen Eurodesigner Robert Kalina entworfen wurden!!!
der Bericht hier:
"Release of New Currency to Strengthen Azeri Economy
As earlier reported, Azerbaijan’s new money to be released in January in light of the currency denomination was presented on Wednesday.
Addressing the presentation ceremony at the Excelsior Hotel, President Ilham Aliyev said the issuance of the new banknotes and coins into circulation will mark a new stage in the country’s history.
The President praised the current activity of the central National Bank (NBA), pledging that its policy on the national currency rates will prevent inflation in the future.
The NBA board chairman Elman Rustamov said all the work on printing and issuing the new money has been completed, in accord with the presidential decree signed last February. The money will display Azerbaijan’s national values, the chief banker said.
The new banknotes and coins, printed by an Austrian company, were designed by Austrian expert Robert Kalina, who also developed Euro’s design.
1 Manat (national currency) will equal 5,000 Manats currently being used. The new banknotes, worth 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 manats and coins worth 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50 hundredth factions of 1 Manat will be issued.
The banknote worth 1 manat will display Azeri culture, while one for 5 manats - literature, and 10 manats history. 20-manat banknotes will cover the Garabagh conflict, on the initiative of the President, while ones worth 50 manats – education and Azerbaijan’s future prospects, and 100 manats – the country’s development. The banknotes will be protected by some 30 watermarks, Rustamov said.
The denomination is expected to improve money flow in the country. The transition to new currency will simplify the accounting system and allow reducing state expenses. The current absence of coins in circulation leads to a fast wearing of paper money.
Since 1992, the rate of the national currency Manat has decreased 10,000 times, which necessitates the release of new banknotes from the economic and technical viewpoints. "
Singapore hat kürzlich einen zweiten Schein aus Polymer herausgegeben:
die 2 Dollar Note.
Anbei das Bild
Ausserdem gabs noch folgende Infos:
" SINGAPORE NEW $2 ND (2002) ISSUE DATE: 12 Jan 2006
22 Dec, 2005 - Singapore will be issuing a $2 polymer notes from 12 Jan 2006. Portrait of Singapore's first President, the late Encik Yusof bin Ishak, on the front, and images related to the Education theme at the back, Same colour (predominantly purple), Same size (126 mm x 63 mm). Incorporated security features unique to polymer technology that are found on $10 polymer notes. They are: Two see-through windows - one on the top-left hand side, and the other at the bottom-right corner; A stylised gold Singapore Lion symbol with a hidden image, beside the top-left hand window. An image of the Singapore Arms will appear at varying angles. The security thread now takes the shape of the Singapore island instead of a straight line. Image and information compliments of Tigerson.
For the first time the note will bear the signature of Mr. Goh Chok Tang, Chairman Monitary Authority of Singapore.
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