In Other News…

• The Bank of Ghana has announced that 1 and 2 cedi banknotes are to be phased out in favour of coins. A bimetallic 1 cedi coin has been in circulation since 2007 and a 10-sided bimetallic 2 cedi coin was introduced in 2019. According to the Bank, the phase-out is due to heavy usage of the notes and the high costs of replacement compared with coins.

• The National Bank of Cambodia has issued a commemorative 30,000 riel banknote to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Paris Peace Acord, marking the official end of the Cambodian-Vietnamese war.

The note is printed on Landqart’s Durasafe® and is the first in the world to deploy Gleitsmann Security Inks’ innovative new ‘traffic light’ feature mouveGSI, which combines two fluorescent colours and phosphorescence in one ink (see CN June 2021).