1st November 2022
Hong Kong, Bank of China - Here is the $20 commemorative note released early this year, celebrating 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics game. I have this note for quite awhile, and was hoping to get all three prefixes issued. Unfortunately, I am still missing the AB note.
2nd November 2022
Solomon Islands - I have added the $2 specimen note with prefix C/2 nd2006 to my previous post. This note completes my collection for this series. This is a full set of six notes bearing the signatures of Rick N Houenipwela and Shadrach Timothy Fanega, and these notes were issued from 2005 to 2009. I have more Solomon Islands specimen notes to come.
4th November 2022
Fiji - This is a numismatic Lucky Money note of F$0.88 cents that was released on the 08.08.2022 (an auspicious date). This issue was a joint-venture with an entrepreneur in China with the main purpose of targeting the Chinese market. As the face value is nominal, it is a legal tender banknote but sold with a 'humongous' premium. No doubt, no one will in the right mind cashing it in at face value any sooner. Never, in all the years that I have been collecting banknotes that I have seen a central bank agreed to release a nominal numismatic banknote, with the bulk of which are distributed by another party not residing in the country. It was reported that a total of 3.6 million notes printed, and only 10,000 pieces are released in Fiji. The rest is managed by the another party in China. It is not sure if those issued in Fiji are included in the 3.6 million pieces or these are extra. Obviously, as a collector, we are always welcome such issue. I have also added this note to my commemorative section, even this is not a commemorative issue.
12th November 2022
Jersey - Here are the latest two notes from Jersey that was printed or released in 2018, bearing the signature for the Treasurer of the States, Richard W Bell. I have no information what Richard Bell's initial W stands for. Since the current series was first introduced in 2010, these are the first reprint for these 2 denominations. I am surprised that the reprint included the £50 as for the previous series, this denomination lasted for 17 years until the current series was introduced in 2010. Perhaps, holding cash is still the best option than credit card, like they always said - Cash is King! I also noted that both the 2010 and 2018 prints both have the prefix of AD. My guest is that perhaps only say 300,000 pieces were printed for the initial series. Jersey has a rather small population of just over 170,000+, and it is expected that any banknotes printed would usually last a while, and when the English pounds are also acceptable as legit currency on the island, one would expect that every Jersey denominations would have a longer life cycle than expected, except for the £1 note.
18th November 2022
27th November 2022
Solomon Islands - I have now added another specimen note of $50 issued nd2017. For this series with the signature of Denton Hehenoro Rarawa & Harry Kuma, only four notes were issued, and I have excluded the $5 polymer series which was released in nd2019. The four notes are $10, $20, $50 and $100. All were issued in nd2017, with the exception of the $100, which was released in 2015. Both the $50 and $100 notes are printed on hybrid material. Of the four specimen notes, the $50 is the only specimen note that is printed with the tiny control number in the bottom left corner. The remaining three notes do not have such numbers.
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