Honduras with new 20 lempiras

The authorities of the Central Bank of Honduras (BCH) had this day the new banknote 20 lempiras plastic which comes into circulation in the country. The President of BCH, Sandra Midence, said new ticket which enters into force today has the necessary emission requirements worldwide. The cost of the new issue is "much larger than the previous one (48 per cent) but its durability is four years," representing a "savings of almost 200 percent," he said. He added that twenty was chosen because it "is a term traffic ticket, it is a name that is not low and therefore there would be less restraint, as to keep it as souvenir. He explained that gradually according to what is received from the public will go replacing polymer banknotes (a kind of plastic) and then the other denominations. The BCH produced 60 million pieces, or about 200 million Lempiras in new twenties.
NEW FEATURES
Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales, a board member of the Central Bank said that one of the main features is that it is very difficult to forge (a 99 percent chance less). He also demonstrated that features a series of safety devices, goodfellas, a transparent window that changes color against the light, contains a perfect record of a Mayan figure on both sides of the ticket, a watermark after birth and included a system "Braille" for it can be distinguished without seeing this at the suggestion of Deputy blind, Dayana Martinez.
Another feature is the placement of security threads, and high durability so it can hold water and not get wet, this quadruple its lifetime, compared to common notes and in turn reduces The possibility of transmitting infectious diseases having no pores as paper. The material they are made of banknotes is a polymer, a type of plastic specially designed to make bank notes and went to the market first in 1988 on the occasion of the bicentenary of Australia. In 1996, all banknotes in circulation in Australia were made because of that material, whose technology for use as a bank note was developed by the Australian Center for Industrial Research. Countries like Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, Chile, Guatemala and Nicaragua, among others, and also have plastic banknotes in circulation.

Today Honduras will present plastic banknote

Update: http://numismaticworldnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/honduras-with-new-20-lempiras.html
Almost 22 years after the movement launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of Australia, plastic bill comes to Honduras.
The Central Bank board will make its official presentation today. It was in 1988 that the authorities of that country in Oceania launched this new kind of money.
The notes are made of a plastic called biaxially oriented polypropylene, which ensures durability, quality, high cost-effectiveness and the highest incorporation of anti-counterfeiting measures.
He tried to know the name or names of plastic banknotes circulate in Honduras, but authorities declined to speak on the subject. It ruled that the ticket polypropylene is the 100 or 500 lempiras least one new 1,000 lempiras.
Then the new ticket will be 1, 2, 5, 10 or 50 Lempiras. Of all the denominations of notes on paper, the Central Bank recorded the highest monetary emission are 100 and 500 Lempiras.
Among Latin American countries where plastic is used ticket mentioned Mexico and Chile. In CA, Guatemala and Nicaragua used tickets with plastic-like material.

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