South Sudan 2015 - Bimetallic types already released

The South Sudan 2015 bimetallic types (1 & 2 pounds) are already released:



(news and images from Aidan Work and Johann Siemens)

South Sudan 2015 - New coin family

New circulating family for South Sudan:



You can find awesome images of the two bimetallic types at World Bimetallic Coin News.

You can order these coins from Murtaza Karimjee (m_abdeali@hotmail.com) at his web page africanbanknotes.blogspot.com or from his eBay site.

My own scan of the 10 piastres:



The 20 piastres:



And the 50 piastres:



(news and images from Aidan Work, Pabitra Saha, Niels van Schendel and myself)

South Sudan new coins in september

The Governor of the Central Bank of South Sudan, Kornelio Koryom, said that the South Sudan pound coins will come into circulation this month.

The Governor told in a press conference, that the coins will be in the denominations of 1, 5, 25 and 50 piastres. He also also explained that all old Sudanese Pounds will be kept in the bank stores, pending a political agreement on currency exchange between Khartoum and Juba.

LINK: Radio Miraya

South Sudan 2011 - New country, new coins

The new country will release its new currency this month. The currency is the South Sudanese pound. Their neighbours, North Sudan, will also be releasing a new and separate currency this month.

Images of the South Sudan banknotes, by De La Rue, are already available in the links below. Images and information of the coins are still awaited...

(information by Aidan Work)

LINK: Juba Post
LINK: Aljazeera
LINK: BBC News
LINK: Sudan Tribune (with new banknotes image)