Less than 3 percent of banknotes currently in circulation comprise New Design Series (NDS) bills that can no longer be exchanged for the new series after December 31, 2016, the central bank said on Wednesday.

In value terms, this means some P26.1 billion worth of the three-decade old series must be exchanged for the New Generation Currency (NGC) notes launched in 2010.

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