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A new EUR 20 bank note entered into circulation on Wednesday, the European Central Bank announced.

The new note is more resistant to counterfeiting and includes a new kind of security feature: a "portrait window" near the top of the hologram stripe, which becomes transparent when seen against the light.

The European Central Bank (ECB) prepared for the launch of a new 20-euro banknote on November 25, 2015. To prepare for its launch 2.8 mln businesses are receiving information leaflets and motion cards so as to be informed about the “design and security features” of the new note. It can be easily checked manually using the feel-look-tilt method.

Fifth emission 500 kuru?, which was printed by an Ottoman sultan in 1849 but has never been seen so far, was found with a collector in Ankara. 

The owner of the banknote, researcher and writer Necati Do?an, said the banknotes were launched for the first time in the Ottoman era in the period of Abdülmecit in 1840 with the name "Kaime-i Nakdiye-i Mütebere." 

The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) will release a new BGN 2 coin to replace the BGN 2 banknotes by end-2015.

According to BNB data, BGN 2 banknotes are the ones that most often become unfit for circulation.

A new type of counterfeit banknotes of BGN 2 (EUR 1) issue 2005 has been spotted, Bulgaria's central bank warned on Friday.

The holographic band, which is the basic security feature of a banknote most often checked in circulation, is fake with its optical effects resembling those of genuine banknotes to a great extent.

A 50-kuru?, watermarked Ottoman banknote, the existence of which has been discussed for more than a century, has been found among banknotes sent by a collector for valuation. The banknote is dated 1876. 

Numismatist Mehmet Tezçak?n, a consultant to a London-based international auction company, said that a collector based in Germany had sent him some Ottoman banknotes for valuation. 

By Tina Davis & Christopher Donville

Fortress Paper Ltd., a printer of banknotes, rose the most in two years as a website said the company may have a contract with the Greek government.

Fortress gained 22 percent to C$3.78 in Toronto trading. The shares have climbed 65 percent this month.

Greece’s Parliament plans to cut down on the number of photocopies it hands out in a bid to reduce the amount of A4 sheets of paper it uses by 3 million each year.

A total of 1072 fake Bulgarian banknotes were apprehended in the National Center for Analysis of Bulgaria's central bank (BNB) in Q1 1014, shows the bank's statistics. 

They are by 326 more year-on-year. Their relative share of the total currency circulation is 0.000326%. 

Greek traders warned of fake EUR 50 banknotes which, according to experts, have been printed in Bulgaria.