Ibns Bank Note Of The Year Announced

Mexico wins again with
2021 IBNS Bank Note of Year Award

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The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) announces that its voting membership has again selected the Banco de Mexico to receive its annual prestigious "Bank Note of the Year Award" for 2021. With well over 100 new banknotes released worldwide during 2021, only 20 were deemed of sufficiently new design to be member nominated. Unlike most years when there has been a clear favorite from the start, the vote between first and second place was nip and tuck until the very end when Mexico's 50 Peso note edged Sao Tome and Principe's 200 Dobra bill (slave leader Rei Amador, butterflies, sunbird and flower). There was an actual third place tie between Costa Rica's 10,000 Colones note (abolition of the army leader, rainforest, flora and sloth) and the Bank of England's 50 Pounder (Queen Elizabeth II with Alan Turing and his war code breaking computer). Rounding out the top eight vote getters were Romania's 20 Lei (country heroine with crocus), the Royal Bank of Scotland's 50 Pound (social reformer Flora Stevenson, flowers and birds), China's 20 Yuan (2022 Winter Olympics theme), and the Cook Islands 3 Dollar (Ina riding shark, fishing canoe and carved wood statue) banknotes.