“We as a country have a historical identity and we have to put our most valuable men and women in our hands, in the money we handle every day“added the head of state.
Fernández ruled out the issuance of new banknote denominations and considered as a “simplified reading” link the introduction of a new design with the need to issue higher denomination paper. The President, without specifying the names of the heroes and heroines that will make up the new family of banknotes, said that The initiative has been working on for “two years”.
The idea is that they gradually replace the previous series of native animals, which today has the baker as the symbol of the highest denomination bill, the 1,000 pesos. Among what is known so far, is the fact that there will be banknotes with gender equality. For the time being, the Central Bank ruled out new denominations in addition to clarifying that the modification of the currency and its replacement by animals did not mean an extra cost since the replacement is done gradually, as the deteriorated banknotes go out of circulation.
On January 30, 2020, Victoria Freire, the director of the Gender and Public Policy Observatory, had proposed to her Twitter users that they suggest names for the “new feminist banknotes”. Among the most mentioned historical figures were Azucena Villaflor, Juana Azurduy, Lohana Berkins and the President of the Argentine Homosexual Community, Carlos Jáuregui, among other figures.
Source: Ambito
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