Egypt's first polymer bank note, the 10-pound note, is expected to be distributed in early November and will co-circulate with the current notes for a period, as the central bank gauges user reaction.

Two new notes have started the latest series of issues for Peru with the latest offerings, the 10- and 100-sol, focusing on famous Peruvians in fields of arts and sciences with flora and fauna highlighted.

An unusual denomination marked the celebration of Fiji's first Olympic gold medal with a $7 bill that has become a sort of lucky charm for many and the results of the latest games could mean a re-issue.

A new 10,000-tughrik bank note is one of the methods of commemorating the centennial of a key revolution in Mongolia with a leader of the uprising prominently featured on the note.

In an effort to make the country currency more user-friendly for nearly 2.5 million citizens in the Philippines who are visually impaired, the main bank is considering the addition of Braille to notes.

Only a pair of $3 notes remain as legal tender in the Cook Islands (which uses the New Zealand dollar), but one of the notes has become so popular that the government issued a polymer version.

What once served as circulating currency has found new life in the hands of artists in Venezuela as the bills are being used to create innovative works when glued to a board.

A charity auction for the Bank of England and a sale in Hong Kong made up a busy week for Spink as beneficiaries realized big gains and collectors snagged quality notes.

After many delays, including COVID-19, the Economic Community of West African States announces its new single currency, the “eco,” will launch in 2027, with the 15 member nations finalizing timelines.

In a tale of two countries, Venezuela and Zimbabwe are taking different approaches in their common endeavor to combat the encroachment of inflation on their respective nations.

The French central bank, producer of 22% of the euro area's notes and 20-some other nations' notes, contracted with Portal Papers for multi-layer note technology EverFit to improve durability.

The Royal Bank of Scotland's first polymer £50 note, the fourth note in its “Fabric of Nature” series, has on its face Flora Stevenson,19th century literacy and education advocate for women and children.

A charity auction in London that featured frenzied bidding resulted in over £250,000 in funds being raised to benefit a charity designated by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Chinese-Malaysian contemporary artist Red Hong Yi, known as Red, has expressed her views of the current effects on traditional currency by creating her own notes as a form of parody.

A Smithsonian website article reminds that putting Harriet Tubman's image on the $20 note, an effort to reflect more of America's story, is a concept the Educational Series of 1896 attempted, too.

The Bank of England reports circulation of its new £50 note completes the conversion to polymer notes, while the Bank of Spain re-extended a deadline to exchange pre-euro currency.

Planned bicentennial circulation of a 200-lempira note in Honduras, a new denomination, ellicits concerns that it will cause higher prices and that the number to be printed is too small.

While incidents of counterfeiting for most denominations are reported down, the Reserve Bank of India finds an increase in fakes of its new 500-rupee notes turning up in circulation.

New 5-lari and 20-lari note issues from the National Bank of Georgia offer designs similar to previous issues, but with some background revision. The new notes are being released July 2.

The Bank of Albania issued two more notes in its new six-note polymer lek series, with two more to come, themed with portraits of notable national figures and moments in Albanian history.