{"id":14953,"date":"2017-01-10T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14953"},"modified":"2017-01-10T06:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T11:27:25","slug":"and-the-award-for-prettiest-currency-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/and-the-award-for-prettiest-currency-goes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Award For Prettiest Currency Goes To\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/011017_1123_AndTheAward1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James Tarmy wrote about the Oscars of currency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since 2005 the International Bank Note Society has awarded a &#8220;Bank Note of the Year&#8221; to a single bill in general circulation.<\/li>\n<li>The key criteria evaluated are beauty and security.<\/li>\n<li>The Comoros, a small island nation in the Mozambique Channel, once won the award after featuring a poem on its banknote.<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan managed a hat trick of wins between 2011 and 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Widespread use is not enough for victory \u2013 which perhaps explains why the American greenback has never won.<\/li>\n<li>The award is prestigious enough that countries will reach out to the organization in advance of the award, hoping to boost the chances of their country&#8217;s notes.<\/li>\n<li>In recent times currency with vibrant colours and depictions of nature rather than people, have had the edge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the award, and see past winners on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2016-12-01\/the-best-new-global-bank-notes\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Tarmy wrote about the Oscars of currency: Since 2005 the International Bank Note Society has awarded a &#8220;Bank Note of the Year&#8221; to a single bill in general circulation. The key criteria evaluated are beauty and security. The Comoros, a small island nation in the Mozambique Channel, once won the award after featuring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/011017_1123_AndTheAward1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14956,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953\/revisions\/14956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}