{"id":28225,"date":"2022-12-06T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28225"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:15:28","slug":"bog-upgrades-gh%c2%a21-coin-with-enhanced-security-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/12\/06\/bog-upgrades-gh%c2%a21-coin-with-enhanced-security-features\/","title":{"rendered":"BoG upgrades GH\u00a21 coin with enhanced security features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced an upgrade on the GH\u00a21 coin with enhanced security features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A statement from the BoG said it will issue the upgraded GH\u00a21 coin into circulation from Monday,12th December 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coin, according to the Central Bank, is similar to the existing GH\u00a21 coin in shape, form and images; the Coat of Arms in front and the Scale of Justice at the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BoG added that the upgraded coin is bi-metallic, with outer gold and inner silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upgraded coin has a pronounced rough edge and incorporates a latent image, which appears in a rectangular form below the Scale of Justice at the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe latent image changes from a radiating star to a One Ghana cedi symbol sandwiched between two stars when tilted,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Bank stated that the existing and the upgradedGH\u00a21 coins will co-circulate until the existing coin is gradually withdrawn. The Bank encourages the public to accept the coins and use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced an upgrade on the GH\u00a21 coin with enhanced security features. A statement from the BoG said it will issue the upgraded GH\u00a21 coin into circulation from Monday,12th December 2022. The coin, according to the Central Bank, is similar to the existing GH\u00a21 coin in shape, form and images; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5522,7358,5039,10957,5059,3977,192,5918,10419,11973,8868,5655,11487,3954],"class_list":["post-28225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arms","tag-bank","tag-bank-of-ghana-bog","tag-bog","tag-cedi","tag-central-bank","tag-ghana","tag-gold","tag-justice","tag-one","tag-one-ghana-cedi","tag-security","tag-upgrade","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}