Argentina: new notes in 2016 and new series in 2017
The National Bank of Argentina has announced that a new family of banknotes will be introduced as a measure to curb the rising inflation in the country. Right now the highest denomination in the country is the 100-pesos note but these are sometimes hard to get because people need so much of them.
That is why new notes of 200-, 500- and 1000-pesos will be introduced. In mid-2016 we will first see the 200- and 500-peso note followed by a 1000-peso note and also newly designed 20-, 50-, 100-peso notes in 2017. The theme of the new notes are no longer hero's from South-America but will be indigineous animals on the front and the habitat they live in at the back.
The notes will have the following images:
- 20 pesos: Guanaco, Patagonian steppe
- 50 pesos: Condor, Andean Region
- 100 pesos: Taruca, Northwest Region
- 200 pesos: Southern right whale, Argentine Sea, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands
- 500 pesos: Jaguar, Northeast region
- 1,000 pesos: Rufous hornero (national bird), Central region
Right now only the designs of the 200- and 500-peso notes have been publicized but if this is the standard we can expect from the new series I believe we will have a family of notes which is going to be VERY popular with theme collectors.
Update 2 May 2016: The 500-pesos note will be issued in July 2016 and the 200-pesos note will follow in the fourth quarter of 2016, Telam reports.
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