Admire art on banknotes at Bank Negara exhibition

Muhammad (second from left) looking at in-house designer Muid Latif painting an icon of a banknote at the exhibition. With them are (from third left) BNP Paribas chairman Datuk Abdullah Mat Noh, Numismatik Malaysia president Datuk Sharuddin Yusof and Bank Negara museum and art gallery advisor Lucien de Guise.

Money changes hands so quickly that people often overlook the finer details and beauty of banknotes.

Bank Negara’s latest exhibition Works on Paper: Art Inside the Wallet gives people a chance to admire banknotes from several countries, some of which date back to the 1400s.