May Postings 2021

May 2021

 

15th May 2021

Congratulations to Leicester City Football Club for winning the 140th English FA Cup final

(after 137 years)

(Chelsea 0 vs Leicester 1 - Youri Tielemans 63 minutes)

🏆Well Done Leicester City FC, well done🏆

1st May 2021 

THE BAHAMAS - These are the currency series printed with the CRISP Evolution technology, which were issued in stages. This series first started in 2016. The remaining note of $100 is yet to be issued. The $1, $5 and $50 are all printed on Hybrid materials. It is believed that the $100 will be printed on Hybrid material too. This new series, once fully issued, will comprise of 8 notes from 50 cents to $100. It is interesting to see that The Bahamas is still retaining the 50 cents denomination in paper note. This new series of notes were printed by at least 4 imprinters, namely Oberthur Fiduciaire, De La Rue, Giesecke & Devrient and Canada Bank Not Company.

 

3rd May 2021

IRAN - Here are three of the emergency cheques of 500,000 rials all having the same design but different signatures. I believe these were issued between 2002 and 2013.

 

8th May 2021

SOLOMON ISLANDS - Another five specimen notes issued between 2005 and 2009. I am missing the $2 piece here. The signatures on these notes belonged to the Governor Rick N Houenipwela (tenure 1993-2008) and Shadrach Timothy Fanega (Secretary to the Minister of Finance).

 

15th May 2021

AUSTRALIA - Here I have updated the $20 Next Generation notes that I have posted on 07.11.2019. Included in this post, I have added the $5 nd2019 reprints (both first and last prefix) and also a $100 Next Generation series nd2019 with normal prefix.

21th May 2021

SOLOMON ISLANDS - Another 3 specimen notes issued from 2008 to 2009. Here I am missing the $50 value.

23rd May 2021

KAZAKHSTAN - Posted here are four notes all issued with the bank Chairman's signature Kairat Kelimbetov. Kelimbetov was the central bank's Chairman from 2013 to 2015. Here, I am missing the 5000 tenge note for this series. The 10,000 tenge note is printed on Hybrid material.

 

25th May 2021

AUSTRALIA - A letter that I received recently from a customer containing postage stamps issued more than 45 years ago. These stamps are not rare, but I was a bit surprised as the customer's business has nothing to do with with selling collectible stamps. Perhaps could be a collector too.  

29th May 2021

SOLOMON ISLANDS - Another 5 specimen notes issued between 2009 to 2011. This is not a full set as I am missing the notes for the $5 and $50 pieces.

 

Footnote

15th May 2021 - Many blogger's posts were accidentally deleted by Google citing the reason of violations of Google's policies related to malware and viruses. Because of this, two of my commemorative posts of HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Nicaragua posts were deleted. Within 24 hours, both my posts were re instated. It is not sure why this had happened, but could be just a glitch in Google's blogger systems.