Your web browser is out of date. Update your browser for more security, speed and the best experience on the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

Press Release - Bermuda Monetary Authority Legacy Banknote Campaign

9 November 2022

HAMILTON, BERMUDA – Today, the Bermuda Monetary Authority (Authority or BMA) launches its campaign ‘Deposit It or Exchange It’ to remind the public that, from 31 December 2022, they will have one year to deposit or exchange the horizontal Bermuda Dollars legacy banknotes. Effective 1 January 2024, these notes will be retired and no longer have value as legal tender.


Removing old banknotes from circulation is a common practice by monetary authorities to (1) exchange worn notes for newly printed ones, (2) as anti-counterfeiting security feature technology improves and (3) when a new banknote design is released (as the BMA did in 2009). The BMA shared this long-range plan in its 2012 Business Plan and, soon after, announced the ten-year exchange period commencing on 1 January 2014, per the Bermuda Monetary Authority Act 1969. The 2023 year will mark the end of the period during which the public may exchange or deposit their legacy banknotes at a Bermuda-based bank or the Bermuda Credit Union.

feedback icon