Boy, do I love silver certs!

Where do I get information on what Coin/Note shows are happening around the world. Obviously I am more interested in shows in the UK as they are easier (and chepaer) to get to.

Also I recently returned from Vacation to Southern Africa, and I went to Zimbabwe while I was there. The currency has gone to pot in that part of the world now, that they have resorted to using bearer cheques instead of real notes. The OFFICIAL government exchange rate is Z$250 = USD1

I have attached a copy of the Z$1000 note which is about US$4.00. The wired thing about the money, is that they have a Z$1 note as well... cant buy much with that at all

Chris,Zimbabwe has got Bearer Cheques as low as 1 Cent.The 1c. to 50c. values are on paper that was left over from when the $500 notes were printed at the end of 2001 (or 2003,according to an unconfirmed report).The $1 Bearer Cheque is significant,as it is the first time that Zimbabwe has ever had a $1 note.

I have got all of the new Zimbabwean Bearer Cheques,except for the $10,000 & $100,000 ones.I can guess that I will have to wait until next year's Pick catalogue comes out.The prices that some vendors on eBay want for these 3 notes (including the 2 types of the $10,000) is absolutely ridiculous.

Aidan.

I picked up these nice notes;

Ghana N.D. (1965) 1 Cedi. This has Kwame Nkrumah's portrait facing left in a medallion in the top right-hand corner & his portrait facing right in the watermark area.It depicts the Bank of Ghana building on the back.

Hong Kong N.D. (1941) 1 Cent. Government of Hong Kong.Brown on the front & red on the back. Signature of R.R. Todd as Financial Secretary.

New Zealand 1968 54c. on 5/- British postal order (4c. on 4d. poundage change). Issued at Wellington on the 19th of December 1968 & paid at Wellington on the 29th of November 1978. No counterfoil.

Aidan.

Can you post a pic of the Ghana note? If I remember the last Popular Note Comp correctly, some Ghana notes did well.

I am sorry.I cannot post photos,as I don't yet have either a scanner or a digital camera.The Ghanaian banknote is pictured in the latest Pick catalogue.I think it has the catalogue reference of P5.Can anyone please confirm?

Aidan.

I just collect whatever I can get. I am going for the "collect the world in banknotes", I think it would be fun to have a banknote from every country in the world. Preferably the whole set like £5, £10, £20, £50 in the case of the UK

Chris,I found trying to collect the world far too difficult,which is why I now specialise in the British Commonwealth,including Ireland,Zimbabwe,& Somaliland,but not Cameroon or Mozambique (which are foreign countries that should never have been allowed to join up in the first place).

You'll be pleased to know that from later on this year,England will be issuing a banknote depicting Adam Smith on it.Who would believe it - a Scotsman depicted on an English banknote.By the way,only 3 countries of the U.K. are issuing notes.Wales stopped issuing notes in around the mid 1970's.Scotland & Ulster are still issuing their own notes.Cornwall also had their own notes for a short time as well.

Aidan.

This is Ghana 1 Cedi P5.

Very nice. I need one of those.

Just won two great banknotes on ebay. Portuguese 5000 reis 1901 P80 and 500 escudos 1922 P130. The 500 escudos type was involved in the (in)famous Angola and metropole fraud by Alves Reis. Here is the story about it: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/21/burton.php

I bought all this notes on last year november. It cost me only USD27.08 Bought it from Mississippi Banknotes from ebay. I was too buzy to post them on the forum and haven't update all the notes on my website, need more time.

Here are the List for my latest purchase

Guinea 100franc 1998 unc
Burundi 10franc 1997 unc
Mongolia 10,20,50 1993 unc
Kyrgyzstan 1,10,50Tyin 1993 unc
Tajikistan 20Dirams 1999 unc
Azerbaijan 50Manat 1993 unc
Uzbekistan 1,3sum 1994 unc
Kazakihstan 3,5Tenge 1993 unc
Yemen 10Rials 1992 unc
Maldives 5Rufiyaa 2000 unc
Trinidad Tobago 1Dollar 2002 unc
Honduras 2Lemp 2003 unc
Belarus 50Kopeks,50reblei,100rubles unc
Slovenia 20Tolarjev 1992 unc
Estonia 1,2 kroon 1992 unc
Macedonia 10denari 2005 unc
Bulgaria 3,5 leva 1951 unc
Suriname 100gulden 2000 unc
Suriname 25gulden 2000 unc
Suriname 25gulden (olympic) 1998 unc

One of my best purchase

I really like the story about this Portugal note although it is a bit confusing when I first read it. I will put this into my website under the article with both the article and the link to the orginal article.

Is there any other good story relating to banknotes ?

I just got these two in the mail today to complete my large size FRN type set:

congrats on the complete set. where can i see it all together?

Nice notes.

Really nice notes!!!

Hmm...you can probably see all of them in this thread! I should put them together someplace though, any suggestions?

Interesting $100 note, never seen one with a side portrait before

excellent notes! i especially like the reverse of that c-note. it's notes like these that are getting me to focus my collection a lot more to the u.s. side as opposed to the rest of world. i'm slowly crossing over...maybe temporarily, maybe not.

as for display recommendations, i've been using fotki.com. i found it several years ago and liked it so much i decided to upgrade my free account to a paid one. it lets me show public photo galleries, password-protected galleries, and hidden private galleries. with unlimited account space, i loaded my entire collection to the public area and use my private area to host pictures for use other websites...like my avatar and signature bar. they also just added a new feature allowing for video.
http://public.fotki.com/sanmiguel/world_banknotes/

another popular site i've seen in use is flickr. i've never used them, so i can't really comment on their features. but from what i've seen....it looks pretty snazzy!
http://flickr.com/photos/tiffibunny/sets/72157594222116556/

also, there's always good ol' banknote bank!
http://www.banknotebank.com/user_view.aspx?id=UkrainaDvi

I guess some weekend when I have some spare time I'll look into those San Miguel. The $100 is the only FRN with a profile image of Franklin, and although these are still available, they are getting a bit harder to find without major problems (this one has one pinhole on the margin). And yes, the large size FRNs had some of the best designs the BEP has ever produced!

Here are my latest purchases in the last 7 days:

Isle Of Man £1



Jersey £1



USA $2



And a note I've been after for a while

Series D £10

huh... I didn't know the US had 2 pound notes.

We make mistakes some times. You can be an auditor.

maybe it's his keyboard/computer. u.s. keyboards are defaulted to show the '$' symbol, korean pc's show the won,and japanese show the yen. makes sense that a british one shows the pound.

to use a different symbol than the default, you'd have to look up the code, like alt + 0163. sometimes i get lazy and just write out 'pounds' or 'euro' rather than look up the code.

Bought this a 2 days ago

a 1944 French 5 franc

When I was writing it I kept thinking to myself press the "$" not the "£"

Amended now

€ £ ¢ Amazing keyboard tricks.

Today I drove down to a coin show about an hour away ( they don't have too many in NH) and i got the following

Australia Unc 5, 10 and 20 dollar polymer notes (P51-53)
1946 Hungary 10,000 Milpengo (P126)
Madagascar 5,000 Francs (P78)
1975 Rhodesia $10 (P33B)

and a complete set of UNC New Zealand banknotes from 1992-1993 (the $5,10,20, 50 and 100) all with the same serial numbers AA000625

and all of it was just under $200

Great fotki collection My favourite private issue has to be the Welsh banknotes. Shame Wales don't issue their own banknotes like Scotland & Northern Ireland

Today I got home from my National Guard duty to find these two waiting for me:

1944 Morocco 10 Francs..... I really like older Morocco notes.





And then this one from Equatorial Guinea - This series is my favorite from this country.

nice notes. I like the canoe scene.

But someone in Wales indeed did issue banknotes beginning in the late 1960's:






I had whole sets of them at one time, and then gave them to my brother. Now they go for ridiculous prices on eBay.

Interesting do you or anyone else have any history on these at all, I have never heard of them

Indeed, Peter Symes has a whole treatise of them on his site:

Black Sheep Company of Wales

BTW, look at the rest of his site. It can be addictive, and you may have to come back to it. He has written a number of books, many of which are for sale on his site also - especially on British banknotes.

I am expecting a whole set of 1960's-1980's Chinese notes, a Spanish 100 Pesetas from 1925, and now a set of Suriname notes. Images to follow as soon as they arrive.

Great link

I think that it is long overdue for the Black Sheep notes to be listed in Pick,as they did have the backing of the British Board of Trade at the time that they were issued.

Aidan.

I recently bought in 2 Trinidad & Tobago $1 banknotes,of which one depicts our Queen's portrait.The other is from the 2002 issue.

I have also bought in 2 Jamaican $1 banknotes & a Jamaican $10 banknote.

Another note I picked up was the 1982 50 Tambala from Malawi depicting Hastings K. Banda,who was a dictator in his own right.

Aidan.

I didn't purchase these, they were a gift. They're absolutely beautiful notes. Thank you Scottishmoney.

Beautiful notes, Art.

Spanish painter Julio Romero de Torres


And a lovely lady, one of his paintings.

Republic of Spain 50 centavos de Peseta 1937

Japan, Hiroshima 5 Monme Meiwa 1, (1764) Hanhatsu note. My earliest foreign note now.

In yesterday's mail,these banknotes arrived from a dealer in Australia;

Pakistan (1947-48) 1 Rupee - similar to the 1940 Indian 1 Rupee,but with 'GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN' in both English & Urdu added.

Sarawak 1940 10c. Portrait of Rajah Sir Charles Vyner Brooke at right.Uniface.

Zimbabwe (2003) $5,000 Traveller's Cheque.Pink.Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's logo at the top of the note on the front.Wavy lines on the back.

Zimbabwe 2003 $20,000 Bearer Cheque.Issuing date 15.9.2003.Expiry date 30.6.2004.'K' serial number prefix.

Aidan.

See323 and Scottishmoney beg you to post images of the above please.

Scottishmoney - I did not request for scans. Anyway, Aidan Work does not have a scanner, so no images. I can safely answer for him.

Unfortunately,I haven't yet got the facilities to take & post photos,as I haven't got either a scanner or a camera.In fact,I haven't yet got a printer.

I do have my own computer though.

Aidan.