NEW BOOK: BANKNOTE AND COIN UPDATE 2025

Welcome to this round-up of all new banknotes and coins issued in 2025, brought to you by the publishers of Currency News™ and Coin & Mint News™. This annual summary is the second of its type, covering the previous year's new issues.

The somewhat prosaically-titled Banknote and Coin Update 2025 has been compiled using the DataVault searchable database of banknotes and coins. This resource, which is available to all those involved in the industry, enables users to search and sort all of the world's banknotes and circulating coins via various parameters relating to size, orientation, date of issue, theme, substrate or composition, features and more – with a powerful search engine saving hours if not days of time-consuming research.

The information covers circulating notes and coins only (including, for banknotes, circulating commemoratives) issued during 2025. Whilst other notes and coins were unveiled during the year, they have only been included if they have actually been put into circulation.

By this measure, 38 countries issued new notes or coins in 2025, of which 33 issued one or more new banknotes – 79 in total.

 

Of those banknotes, 43 were new series introduced by 13 central banks and note issuing authorities. 19 were upgrades by 11 issuers (as in one or more features were changed or added, albeit the design remained the same) and seven were on new substrates, switching from paper to polymer. In three countries and economic areas the new series also involved a change of substrate from paper to polymer – including the Falkland Islands, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates. In addition, two of the banknotes issued last year were new high denominations for Sudan and Turkmenistan.

On the coin side, eight countries or economic areas issued new coins. This includes new series for the Central African States (nine coins), Curaçao and Sint Maarten (12), Zambia (four), and Namibia (five). Four countries issued redesigned coins, including the United Kingdom (one), Solomon Islands (one), Denmark (five), and Monaco (two).

 

The information on each new note and coin in the report is an abbreviation on the information provided in DataVault itself, more information on which can be found at datavault.reconnaissance.net.

We hope you enjoy reading this annual update and urge you to delve deeper into the data behind it, via DataVault, to find out more about how banknotes and coins are changing and evolving.

For more information, see:
https://datavault.reconnaissance.net/

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