Banknote

Art lovers gathered for a "Season of Silver" art exhibition held in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday to enjoy a Guatemalan artist's different perspectives on Turkish Lira banknotes.

A new scam at the seaside. In an exchange office in the resort of Sunny Beach foreign currencies were exchanged with old Bulgarian banknotes.

The incident took place on the morning of August 16 on the central alley in the resort. At a street exchange, a Moldovan received for the amount of 150 euros its equivalent in Bulgarian levs - 300 levs (BGN), but an old issue of banknotes.

Newly printed 200 Turkish lira and 10 Turkish lira banknotes will go into circulation on July 16, ahead of next week's Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, said an official announcement.

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On Tuesday, police found 4 million US dollars and 3.6 million euros of supposedly counterfeited banknotes at the illegal plant in the printing office of the Todor Kableshkov Higher School of Transport.

A 65-year-old public hospital doctor in Attica was arrested on charges he received a bribe from a patient in exchange for treatment, authorities said on Tuesday.

He was nabbed on Monday inside a hospital while in possession of an amount in pre-marked banknotes that he had received from the patient.

Police have filed a case against him.

Handling banknotes poses only a low risk of spreading Covid-19, the Bank of England has said, after it commissioned research to find out how long the virus lasts on cash.

The use of notes has dropped sharply since the pandemic hit in March, and the Bank said one reason could be fears that cash can carry the virus.

Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) is putting in circulation a new series of banknotes, which has a face value of BGN 5. The bill will be in circulation from September 4th as legal tender, the institution said.

The Bulgarian National Bank will put a new 10 Leva banknote into circulation on June 12, 2020. The overall design of the banknote will not be subject to any significant changes as compared to the 10 Leva banknotes which are already in circulation.

Euro banknotes do not pose a particular risk of coronavirus infection when touched. This statement was made by the famous Italian economist, member of the Executive Committee of the European Central Bank, Fabio Panetta, Il Messaggero reported.

Some Turks are in no way laid-back when it comes to preventing getting infected with the novel coronavirus, which has ravaged the whole world, wreaking havoc on many economies.

A tradesman in the Black Sea province of Ordu's Altınordu district has found a novel "solution" to prevent coronavirus contamination through banknotes.