With an emphasis on diversity, an advisory council narrowed the choices among potential subjects for Canada's next $5 note to eight candidates, from which the minister of finance will chose one.

More than 3,000 pieces of deaccessioned Confederate currency, all issued on Feb. 17, 1864, will be sold by the South Carolina Archives & History Center on the anniversary of issue.

A new 200-quetzal note issued in Guatemala, using cotton fiber, new security devices and a different method of printing, joins circulation with the previous issue of the country's highest value note.

Albania began releasing a planned series of six new polymer notes in September of 2019 and the latest two releases, the 500-lek and 2,000-lek notes, issued Jan. 17, complete the series.

Two different organizations with differing award criteria have announced their 2021 note nominees, and two of the year's notes are up for potential honors from both organizations.

A new polymer 20-ouguiya note into circulation during November by the African nation of Mauritania with the new note created by the Canadian Banknote Co.

South Korea's National Intelligence Service is warning that counterfeit U.S. $50 bills are believed to be circulating throughout the region ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

National Bank of Ukraine and Crane Currency report the December issue of the final two notes in a six-denomination series commemorating Ukraine's 30th anniversary of independence.

Plans to redesign euro bank notes are meeting reservations from Robert Kalina, designer of the original notes, who is concerned that a redesign that could inflame jealousy and national rivalries.

A new £5 note for Gibraltar, with a design featuring a famous pedestrian bridge, will be downsized to match notes of the same denomination in the United Kingdom and will not be polymer.

Errors on a sample of the first polymer note for the Philippines are corrected, but objections to the subject and substrata of the new 1,000-piso note have the governor promising the old one will cocirculate.

The Chinese New Year begins Feb. 1, the Year of the Tiger, but the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Lucky Money product for 2022 isn't ready yet, as the BEP continues to deal with COVID delays.

With no appointee filling the U.S. treasurer's office, no treasurer signature is available, and no new note series will be issued until that problem is resolved.

A note commemorating the 50th anniversary of a historic event became historic in its own right as the 50-dirham note is the first polymer note issued by the Central Bank of UAE.

A Series 1882 $1,000 gold certificate from the Joel Anderson Collection is considered the finest known and will be offered at the Heritage sale held in January at the FUN Convention.

New Zealand is seeing an increase in defaced notes due to a hoax played on its citizens who are rubbing the notes with coins as if they were lottery tickets and ruining the bills in the process.

The Federal Reserve's print order for notes, submitted to the BEP in July, allows for an increase in 2022 to meet the trend of increasing demand for paper money during the global pandemic.

A drastic design change is expected for the euro bank note by 2024 with plans to involve citizens in providing opinions on what should be depicted on the future currency.

An international hologram trade group assigned three of its five top awards — best security application, origination and innovation — for uses of the three-dimensional imagery on currency notes.

New polymer notes from Romania include the Nov. 26 issue of a 20-lei note honoring a heroic female soldier, the first real woman on Romanian currency, and a Dec. 1 issue replicating the first 20-lei note.