The Bank of Ghana (BoG) says it is getting ready to phase out the GHC1 and GHC2 notes in circulation.
The BoG says these notes would be replaced by their respective coin.
Addressing a press conference after the MPC meeting Monday (27 September), the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison said, “Both the GHC1 note and the GHC2 note would eventually be phased out because they are not cost-effective in terms of the printing cost.
“Notes that circulate very widely and they come back very torn and soiled and they are very difficult for our currency processing machines to process them.”
He added, “We have bales and bales of GHC1 notes that we are not able to process. So the view for the longer term is to more or less get out of the GHC1 and GHC2 notes and use the GHC1 and GHC2 coins.”
Dr Addison added that “You will recall that this is a note [GHC2] that was issued as a commemorative note. So commemorative notes are not notes that you continue to print and therefore what we have done in the last two years, is to introduce the GHC2 coin and you would expect that eventually, it would more or less play the role that the GHC2 note is playing.”
Source: asaaseradio.com
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nkrumah never does. he cannot be replaced with a cathedral. but feel free to keep trying. an old man at your age still holding a grudge against a dead man. how pathetic.
Sometimes, the schemes these governors at the central bank use to squeeze the already strapped mass of money in circulation is just pathetic. But, not until our people understand this maneuver to create a scarcity of cash whereby everyone is channeled to one form of credit/loan or another where only the banks benefit from a structural inflation, never will our people think that these officials deserve the guillotine. There is no caste of Ghanaian men as well as Ghanaian women as disloyal and cruel than these banking officials.
The printing of the one cedi and two cedi notes were produced in haste hence it's inability to meet demand overtime. It is about time Bank of Ghana does thorough research from developed countries before producing our notes. The wastage is becoming too much.