New Round Up of New Notes and Coins

Currency News™ is publishing a round-up of all new banknotes and coins issued in 2024. This annual summary will be issued each year from now on, covering the previous year’s new issues.

Entitled, somewhat prosaically, Banknote and Coin Update 2024, this round-up is the result of the new DataVault™ searchable database of banknotes and coins. This resource, which is now available to the industry, enables all the 12 were upgrades by five issuers and four were on new substrates, switching from paper to polymer (on top of the two countries where the new series also involved a substrate switch – ie. the Philippines and Mozambique).

Of the other new notes issued, five from three issuers were new high denominations, seven from four issuers were redesigns and three were commemorative.

On the coin side, three countries issued new coins – new designs in the case of France (three) and the UK (one) and part of a new series in one (Zimbabwe).