{"id":3202,"date":"2016-04-26T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/bow-down-losers-new-zealand-has-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bank-note\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:27:48","slug":"bow-down-losers-new-zealand-has-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bank-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/bow-down-losers-new-zealand-has-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bank-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Bow down, losers: New Zealand has the world's most beautiful bank note"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There seems to be an award for just about everything in life.<\/p>\n

Even a fiver gets plaudits, apparently. New Zealand’s NZ$5 bank note was handed the “Bank Note of the Year Award” for 2015 Tuesday, beating out 19 other nominations from around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The crown was handed over by the International Bank Note Society (IBNS), an organisation dedicated to the study and collection of bank notes. Yep, there is such a society.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Close runners-up in “tight voting,” according to an emailed statement from the IBNS, included Sweden’s 20 Kronor note,\u00a0Russia’s 100 Ruble note,\u00a0<\/span>Kazakhstan’s 20,000 Tenge note and\u00a0<\/span>Scotland’s (Clydesdale Bank) 5 Pound note.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There seems to be an award for just about everything in life. Even a fiver gets plaudits, apparently. New Zealand’s NZ$5 bank note was handed the “Bank Note of the Year Award” for 2015 Tuesday, beating out 19 other nominations … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,1854,735],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}