I know this a coin site, but a lot of us collect bank notes too. I just got this 10 dollar bill 1950 in change last night. So my week is starting off very nice.
I know it's been folded and circulated. But to get one in change, a 60 year old bill it is just nice.
yours daryl
I "found" some on the internet and then bought them
Japan - 100 Yen - ND 1950-58 I have ten of them with consecutive serial numbers but this one has the nicest out of the bunch
I also like inflation money, it's cheap and you can pretend to be rich (I like me some zer0s)
German - 1923 - 500 Million Mark It is only printed on one side but it has a nice watermark over the whole bill
Yugoslavia - 1993 - 50 Billion Dinar
Zimbabwe - 2008 - 100 Trillion Dollar That is the biggest banknote I got and it will hopfully stay that way for the forseeable future .
This one and older bills were printed in Germany and by the time they arrived some were already worthless.
I'm not as dedicated to banknotes as I am to coins, but I have some interesting ones. Here are two of my latest purchases:
From the Nazi incursion into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - Ukraine, 10 karbovanets, 1942
Here's the reverse of the Ukrainian occupation note - now the Soviets were occupying Germany. This is one of the first East German banknotes. The Soviet authorities didn't feel like printing their own notes, so they just stuck these 1948-dated stamps on to pre-war money.
I've finally got a Japanese 2000 yen! I've wanted one of these ever since I did a school project on Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands a few years ago. Apparently, people don't spend them in Japan, even though millions were printed to commemorate the year 2000. So the Bank of Japan exports them to foreign exchange offices all over the world. The result: foreigners are more likely than native Japanese to have these 2000 yen notes.
It's a lovely note, one side shows the famous Shureimon gate in Okinawa and the other side shows a scene from the famous thousand-year-old Japanese novel The Tale of Genji and its female author. It has a lateral image (only from a certain angle can you read some of the text on it), ink that changes colour depending on what angle you hold it at, all kinds of microscopic and textured ink, and in the center is the clearest and best-engineered watermark that I've ever seen on a banknote. Most watermarks are kind of faint and blurry - this one is clear as day. Despite all these impressive security features, I was still able to put it through my scanner.
Yours is also on of the better ones with only one letter prefix
At the money exchange I tried, they had only circulated bills so I had to import mine directly from Japan (still cheaper than elsewhere I looked). It's a bit strange that nobody uses it other than Okinawa, only because the vending machine lobby didn't want to invest in upgrades .
If your scanner software is a bit older or from places that don't have to put EURion constellation recognition in to their code you can scann every modern banknote. I myself use a little fotoscanner, its software design looks like straight out of the late 90s, scanns everything Euros, Dollar, Yen etc.
Citeer: IdolenzYours is also on of the better ones with only one letter prefix
At the money exchange I tried, they had only circulated bills so I had to import mine directly from Japan (still cheaper than elsewhere I looked). It's a bit strange that nobody uses it other than Okinawa, only because the vending machine lobby didn't want to invest in upgrades .
If your scanner software is a bit older or from places that don't have to put EURion constellation recognition in to their code you can scann every modern banknote. I myself use a little fotoscanner, its software design looks like straight out of the late 90s, scanns everything Euros, Dollar, Yen etc.
I've been trying to illustrate some of the security features, as well:
I tried to scan some Canadian money as well - I guess my scanner really is just too dumb to recognize the EURion, even though it's a fairly recent model. I'm rich
What I like most of our notes are that they have made a lot of effort for the blind and visually challenged to be able to differentiate them. They are 7mm bigger than the previous denomination one, and they have Braile figures that you can touch and sense the difference. This was very important to me because my father was blind, so I was very grateful because when he had to use dollars he depended on the people's honesty so that he could get his change for the note he gave, and with these Mexican notes that doesn't happen.
Our notes are really pretty, it is a shame that we almost never look at them because we are so used to them; guess it is the same for every country. Except the $1000 which is a bit rare to even see in circulation, you need to go to a bank and ask for them, and often they don't have a single one. I was lucky that the time I decided to get some I got the new series along with two older ones which where made of different material.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
Went to the Bank, and saw these at the front desk:
Very cute and colorful information about our circulation coins and notes, with a lot of information on each of them. Asked if I could take a bunch and the cashier said "of course", so I took a not-so-hoarder size bunch, and my next swaps will get one of these as a bonus.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
The hyperinflation in Germany after the first world war caused local governments to issue their own money. Each locale created currencies that was most convenient for them. In Bielefeld, which was a linen-producing town, several interesting currencies made of linen, silk, leather and other materials where created. Here is one from my collection:
Here is one from my Confederate States collection. It is somewhat rough, but high quality notes are extremely rare for the T-29 and this one is somewhat above average...
Confederate States of America: T-29 1861 $10
Front: Slave picking cotton. Landscape and boat scene at right.
Back: Blank
Thanks. Due to the small denomination, these notes saw heavy usage during the early period of the civil war. Hence, crisp notes are almost impossible to find. According to Fricke, only one Choice Uncirculated note is in existence. It is very rare in XF and above and hence most are in VF and below. The total issuance was about 286,000. My other favorite due to the usage of color is the one below. Unfortunately, it has been cut-canceled, but if it wasn't, this one would have cost over $1,000 in this condition!!!
Confederate States of America: T-22 1861 $10
Front: Family group of Indians in center. Thetis at left, Indian woman at right holding ear of corn and “X” (for 10). Printed in red and black on red fibre paper.
Back: Blank
Citeer: Idolenznice bills but could you use the Thumbnail option next time? Those bigger than the thread pictures look always a bit off
In those times the treasurer really had to work for their money signing each and every note themselfs
I will fix the corresponding pictures to be smaller. Sorry about that. But in regards to the signing, there were several individuals who were assigned to signing the bills. So, it wasn't just the treasurer who was signing it. Imagine 286,000 bills to sign and that is just one denomination!!! Furthermore, it had to be cut by hand with shears! And in 1861 and 1862, several versions of the bills were produced and hence it was even more work...
Here one that very speical, My grand daughter just sent me for my b-day. very used but in the heart.
Oh god my grand daughter going to be a teenager, this year. Iam a happy nut ; old fart
Citeer: ALLRED1950Here one that very speical, My grand daughter just sent me for my b-day. very used but in the heart.
Oh god my grand daughter going to be a teenager, this year. Iam a happy nut ; old fart
That makes me feel younger , my daughter is a teenager. She lives in the Cayman Islands?!??
I especially find the blue counterfeit detector notes interesting :
I have another note of that era on blue paper, but it's a regular issue. And it is slit-cancelled as well. At first I wasn't fond of cancelled notes, but I find myself too limitated in colonial/continental notes if I don't include them :
I collect bank notes actively, so there's many more I feel should be shown, but it'll require a lot of room here lol !
Si tu cognes ta tête contre une cruche et que ça sonne creux, ce n'est pas forcément la cruche... lollll mon proverbe préféré !
The last Canadian dollar bill, 1973 issue. The "multicolour" series of the 1970s is a real standout - in my opinion, the "birds of Canada" series that came after it was actually a step backwards.
The blue counterfeit notes are very interesting indeed, but I don't own any of them . Been meaning to pick some up, but I have way too many notes already and it is a bit difficult to justify the expense. I have the full 1864 Confederate note series in high grade, majority of the 1863 in high grade and a bit of the 1862 notes. It left a HUGE hole in my wallet. So much so that I had to stop collecting them and that includes the colonial notes that I have. Here are some additional colonial banknotes in my collection, my full collection is available at the following URL http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5333:
Colonial Currency, Delaware: 10 Shillings, January 1, 1776 (Fr#DE-79)
Note the reference to King George as we haven't yet declared our independence even though Boston had been occupied by "His Majesties" troops by this time. The references to "British troops", etc is actually incorrect as the United States was still "British". The whole "the British are coming" was a more recent, mid-1850s, retelling of the story...
I'd like to have a Republic of Texas note ! One day, I'll have one ! And I like to tell people that I have notes that date before the July 4th 1776 ! Denly's of Boston is my place of choice for such notes, though I found some obsolete notes here in Quebec. But I've only seen colonial and continental replicas here. CGB.fr also allowed my collection to include other fine things, such as that 9 paoli of 1798 from the Papal States :
Si tu cognes ta tête contre une cruche et que ça sonne creux, ce n'est pas forcément la cruche... lollll mon proverbe préféré !
Very nice Ginger! In regards to banknotes, I really didn't venture farther than the US. I do have some from my teenager days when I started buying them from the Littleton Coin Company, eons ago. Here are some Confederate notes in my collection:
Citeer: GingerI'd also like to own one of those famous notes depicting smiling slaves. This is so silly I have to see it !
I suggest you head over to http://www.colorsofmoney.com. John W. Jones, an African American artist, took the slavery vignettes from the Confederate & Southern State currencies and created a set of outstanding acrylic on canvas paintings. For instance, consider the "Slaves Hoeing Cotton" vignette that is present on the Confederate $100 note:
This Cuban convertible peso is worth exactly one U.S. dollar, so I was happy to buy it for one Canadian dollar. What's interesting is how it looks nicer and more colourful than the real American $1 note
This Yugoslav note isn't worth a lot, but it has a lovely and colourful scene on it, especially considering it was made with 1950s printing technology. And it will fit perfectly into my collection of "Communist banknotes featuring smiling workers/peasants".
Here's a local trade note issued by a coin store in my city. Check out those 1989-era computer-generated graphics!! I won't try redeeming it; it's just a fun pick.
Citeer: kolikko99I can go to a bank and get one and send a picture if it's possible because I'm visiting singapore soon
I have seen them before... This bills are the most used to avoid Custom declarations while travelling with large amount of money or income tax for some people ;)
Enjoy your trip, You will miss the Chinese New Year celebrations, My offices there are off since wednesday till monday.
Citeer: kolikko99I can go to a bank and get one and send a picture if it's possible because I'm visiting singapore soon
I have seen them before... This bills are the most used to avoid Custom declarations while travelling with large amount of money or income tax for some people ;)
Enjoy your trip, You will miss the Chinese New Year celebrations, My offices there are off since wednesday till monday.
I will miss the celebratios in singapore but not in malaysia
Citeer: nalaberongWhat's interesting is how it looks nicer and more colourful than the real American $1 note
We Americans are stubborn mules. We don't like change and hence we rather keep things the way it was. It took A LOT of work to add just a little color to our existing notes. Furthermore, when most of the world decided to keep the fork on the left hand, we refused to change! We switch the fork to the right just like the old days
This was only $4 - the hryvnia's exchange rate seems to be rapidly changing (when I bought it it was only worth $3 in exchange, now it's $4.60). Well, it's a nice note.
I thought this was way more extended around the World, I can't believe some 1st World countries still don't use notes that can be differentiated by the blind or visually impaired. Does the current US notes have these? Because when I was I child and went with my father to buy anything (he got blind while serving on the US Army) I had to learn to use the notes pretty young, because I had to be able to count them and know the change was exact and correct, as not all people is honest and wouldn't mind stealing from a blind man.
And two more for the "WWII Struggles" collection - high-denomination occupation note from Japanese-occupied Philippines ($100! I'm rich!) and shoddily printed Partisan 1 dinar from Yugoslavia.
The Japanese Philippine $100 note deserves a special mention for having perhaps the ugliest colours ever. Purple and green together???
Finally, one more for the "notes with coin designs on them" collection.
Here's a fun note from the Mexican Revolution - too bad I can't figure out what exactly it is. The Constitutional Army is famous, but this was issued by the, uh, Conventionist Army?? It looks like these guys took the capital city and issued notes with pictures of coins on them.
Before they were famous: everyone knows Zimbabwe's hyperinflationary notes, but this is just a respectable (and pretty) $20 issued in 1997, a decade earlier.
Besides, there are other ways to become a millionaire
Oh, and today I finally got a Mexican $100. Previously I had asked for $100 at a currency exchange in Banff National Park... they handed me 2 $50s.
Luckily, one of those $50s was a crisp new one, so it wasn't a complete loss - then I was able to trade the other two less worthy $50s already in my possession for the following note.
And hey, those $50s look great too:
Next, I have to save up for a $500 because it has the awesome Frida on it. Hopefully I can find a small, amateurish currency exchange (the people at these are more likely to be friendly and let you pick out notes based on condition) and get a better rate than the crooks on eBay are offering (the exchange value is C$42, cheapest on eBay is C$80... ).
French Revolution "Assignat", 1792
Nothing printed behind
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
This seems to be the more popular thread for banknotes, so excuse the copy-and-paste job.
I prefer coins to banknotes, but I couldn't resist picking up an unused set of these crazy hyperinflation notes from Zimbabwe (hopefully real!) and some unused "dead dictator" banknotes, mainly for the novelty factor:
Reminds me of Dr Evil in the first Austin Powers movie, lol.
On the right, Kim Il-sung, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.
Also a few random early German banknotes that I bought back in February, including a politically incorrect 5 Reichsmark note from 1942 promoting/idolising Aryan youth:
Citeer: kolikko99that's not true!
I have a 5 won note featuring kim jong un the leader of true korea
the pmg catalog value for this note is about 5000 usd so if you have the money I can sell it to you and sorry but I do not have a link to the pmg page
Haha, good one! Well, I have more than enough in Zimbabwean dollars. Will that do instead?
Sorry but the american capitalist dog collectors already bought this note featuring the leader of true korea for 1 million usd.
I can assure you that the money will be used to protect the happy people of true korea by building nukes using child labour because it makes them happy so don't worry about how the money will be spent
Here are the rest of my banknotes, not counting the few others I have in storage elsewhere and those in my wallet! Bought them about a month ago, together with the ones above.
From China
Top-down: Bank of Communications (1914), Sun Yat-sen (1943), Chiang Kai-shek (1948)
From Hong Kong
Top-down: One Dollar (1959), Five Dollars (1975), Japanese occupation note (1945?)*
All grabbed from the discount basket on the shop counter, so none are in particularly top shape, but good enough for me!
* Ordered by banknote size in this pic, not year, for those who may be prone to pointing out the wrong order.
Haha, there are *more* of these notes?? What are they?
I thought it was an ad for the website, but after summoning the courage to type in the URL, lol, it turns out it's just a placeholder (domain for sale).
And no fair that the notes for men need a while the one for women does not, because the male models are too modest.
My note isn't even the highest denomination in the series! Lol, where is the justice??
They are just funny notes that were made around the time of the Euro introduction. On the 1000 Teuros (pun: teuer=expensive + euro) you can read "Der Euro kommt" (the Euro is coming, pun intended). Also they are issued by the Deutsche Parkbank (pun: German park bench).
Among the oddities of US currencies were the yellow-sealed silver certificates that were issued in November of 1942. These notes were issued for military usage during Operation Torch (aka the US-British invasion of Northern Africa). The yellow seals were added so that it can easily be recognized in comparison to the regular blue sealed silver certificates. Furthermore, it was easy to declare them worthless if large quantities fell into the hands of the enemy. It was issued in $1, $5, and $10 denominations with a series date of 1934/1935. These particular notes are graded PMG/PCGS-65PPQ or higher:
United States of America: 1935A Julian-Morgenthau One Dollar Silver Certificate (Fr#2306)
United States of America: 1934A Julian-Morgenthau Five Dollars Silver Certificate (Fr#2307)
United States of America: 1934A Julian-Morgenthau Ten Dollars Silver Certificate (Fr#2309)
A few days ago, I got this nice €5 banknote in my change. A few things crossed my mind when I got this one:
It's been a while since I found one of the old type, since a lot of them disappeared from circulation (they got replaced by the new type in 2013). It's also kinda unique because the serial prefix indicates that it's from Slovenia, it's my first Slovenian banknote I found in circulation! And also the number of zeros in the serial# caught my attention.
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-Plato