Guyana's currency hierarchy shifted significantly after oil revenues began transforming the economy following the 2015 Liza field discovery and commercial production from 2019. The 500-dollar denomination, once representing meaningful purchasing power, has been progressively squeezed from below by inflation and from above by the need for higher denominations to handle routine transactions — a pressure the 2024 series refresh was partly designed to address.
G&D's Munich facility has handled Guyanese note production across multiple series. Cotton substrate, security thread, and watermark place this squarely in the mid-tier security specification G&D typically applies to non-polymer issues in this value range.
Guyana's currency hierarchy shifted significantly after oil revenues began transforming the economy following the 2015 Liza field discovery and commercial production from 2019. The 500-dollar denomination, once representing meaningful purchasing power, has been progressively squeezed from below by inflation and from above by the need for higher denominations to handle routine transactions — a pressure the 2024 series refresh was partly designed to address.
G&D's Munich facility has handled Guyanese note production across multiple series. Cotton substrate, security thread, and watermark place this squarely in the mid-tier security specification G&D typically applies to non-polymer issues in this value range.