IACA Announces Shortlist for 2022 Excellence in Currency Awards

The International Association of Currency Affairs (IACA) has announced the finalists in the 16th round of its Excellence in Currency Awards.

The finalists were selected from among 39 nominated projects representing significant initiatives by teams at 20 central banks, three commercial banknote issuers, nine suppliers to the banknote industry and one banknote distribution system organisation.

The IACA Awards Review Committee for this round of IACA Awards included special guest judges Mazen Hamdan (International Mint and Print), J Dario Negueruela Martinez (ex Banco de España), and Lydia Yip (ex Hong Kong Monetary Authority), together with David Tidmarsh (Reconnaissance International) and, for IACA, Richard Wall, Brian Lang, Eugenie Foster, and Tom Ferguson.

Following the committee’s selection of the shortlist, IACA delegates will now vote to select the winners.

The shortlist is as follows:

Best New Banknote or Series

• Banco Central de Costa Rica and CCL Secure: Series B 2,000 colones, 5,000 colones and 20,000 colones banknotes 

• Central Bank of Azerbaijan and Giesecke+Devrient/Louisenthal: 50 manat banknote

• Banco de México: 1,000 pesos Series G banknote

• Qatar Central Bank and De la Rue: 5th series of banknotes.

Best New Commemorative or Limited Circulation Banknote

• Bank of Namibia and CCL Secure: Namibian 30 dollar banknote

• Banco de México and CCL Secure: 20 pesos commemorative G series, National Independence Bicentennial banknote 

• Bank of Guatemala and G+D/Louisenthal: 20 quetzales commemorative banknote 

• Bank of Indonesia: 75 Years Independence 75,000 rupiah banknote

• Monetary Authority of Singapore: bicentennial $20 commemorative banknote.

Best New Coin or Series

• Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas: 20 piso New Generation Currency coin

• Banco de México: 20 pesos commemorative coins (Veracruz and others)

• National Bank of Kazakhstan: 200 tenge coin.

Best New Currency Innovation

• Central Bank of Honduras and G+D/Louisenthal: 200 lempira registered security thread 

• Vaultex UK: Green Path campaign

• CCL Secure: VIVID COLOUR.

The voting process will open on 3 January, and conclude on 14 January. The winners will be announced at a special presentation on 22 February at the Banknote and Currency Conference in Washington DC.

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