Nice start! Are they all from the same country? You'll have to post them in Banknotebank.com too! Congratulations!

Very encouraging start of your banknote collection. They are beautiful.

i heart holograms.

Problem with euros is I would want to spend them LOL also if I am honest I dont like the designs (Sorry)

BRAZIL - 100 Cruzados Novos - 1989 - #220a - Poet UNC
BRAZIL - 500 Cruzeiros OP - 1990 - #226b - Hummingbird UNC
RWANDA - 100 Francs - 2003 - #29 - Farmer, Oxen UNC
SOMALIA - 500 Shilin Soomaali -- 1989 UNC



COSTA RICA - 5 Colones - 1992 UNC
SOMALILAND - 10 Shillings - 1996 - Camel Caravan UNC

Just arrived today....i like the costa rica 5 colones, got it for US$1.00. All this notes are very colourfull...

Some AU-UNC Euros (3x 5 Euro, 3x 10 Euro, and 1x 20 Euro)
[/quote]

Hi Grant Ness,
Nice start in your collection keep it up.

Nice lot of notes there, Naidu - I think that Costa Rican 5 Colones note is a very popular design amongst most people. It was one I had to have too!

Got this Belgian note in today. Belgium 100 Francs/20 Belgas note P107(36) from 1943. It's a pretty big note - about 4.25 X 7.0 inches.

That's a nice one Dave

WOW! this note really tempting, very beautifull in design, historical and very architectural more like ancient notes..i ever saw this notes in ebay...most of the Francs banknotes very beautifull. I'm into collecting Francs banknotes.

wow...i'm really liking the center designs. very artistic!

lol...but i gotta ask, did the woman on the front pass out from too much drinking, too much eating, or too much of the happy smoke coming out of that pot?

very beautiful..

Have to agree it is striking I also liked the Cost Rica 5 Colons

Fascinatingly similar in the passionate artistic merit to the French notes, ie the Merson 100 FF and the 5000FF Flameng of 1918:





CGB currently has this one for sale for €3400, a very rare and pricey note.

Latest - My buddy who took a cruise came through for me big time by getting....


[i]575 Haitian Gourdes! I think I have a favorite currently circulating currency.

I also ordered a bunch of stuff (my old M:TG cards sold that were collecting dust) that should arrive shortly (based on the shop recommendations)

Wow... how come that note hasn't made it into your "Pretty Ladies - France" thread? I see some lookers there...

I saw that note and thought "man, I really got to get me one of those." Thanks for sharing the price. My dreams are crushed.

that french note is simply awesome. notes like that make me seriously rethink my current policy of modern + uncirculated only. the prices definitely keep me in check!

those haitian notes are a great design, aren't they? i was going to mention them in the 'favorite design' thread, but the criteria was to pick out just one note. other nicely designed series i like are taiwan, malta, switzerland, hungary, and scotland's clydesdale bank. also portugal's ships & explorers series, before they made the switch to the euro.

and i know my other posts on this topic stated my buying was finished for the nexyt year or so...but i fell victim to an impulse buy. it's not even a real banknote! heheh...this is my last one for sure. no more buying after this!



2005 Disney World $50, special design, #248 out of 500.

It is well out of what I will pay for a banknote too. I saw an Uncirculated example a few years ago. I can just imagine what it goes for.

What a beauty in design, colours and even the price are

[attachmentid=2376]Well have just recieved my 1st 100 world Banknotes and am quite pleased these 2 from Cambodia realy did take my fancy, I love images of the old asian temples Hope that you guy's like them. Also will try to get my British Army notes scaned later.

Nice notes, De Orc! And congrat's on your first new notes!

Got this at the store today. It's wrinkly but in great shape for a 1996 note.

Thanks man. I was feeling guilty for buying a few of the disney $1 notes. Now I can show your post to my wife and say, "hell, at least I didn't spend $50 on funny money!"

heheh...i picked that one up from a disney collector. they're a pretty hardcore group, and only 500 of those notes were printed. you can tell your wife i spent plenty more than $50 dollars for "mickey mouse money".

i have scottishmoney to thank for getting me into disneydollars, but he has kids. heheh...i don't have any excuse whatsoever for having so many.

Hi 'De Orc'

All the best in you collection..i do have some notes from cambodia too. It's true about the temples there, specially the one and only ANGKOR WAT.

Angkor Wat:
Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built for King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. The largest and best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre — first Hindu, dedicated to Vishnu, then Buddhist — since its foundation. The temple is the epitome of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.

Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the temple mountain and the later galleried temples. It is designed to represent Mount Meru, home of the gods in Hindu mythology: within a moat and an outer wall 3.6 km (2.2 miles) long are three rectangular galleries, each raised above the next. At the centre of the temple stands a quincunx of towers. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Angkor Wat is oriented to the west; scholars are divided as to the significance of this. As well as for the grandeur and harmony of the architecture, the temple is admired for its extensive bas-reliefs and for the numerous devatas adorning its walls.

Thanks Naidu have to say it is a place I would love to visit at some point in my life

I need to get an "in" at the Disney store, who will call me when they get the $50's, usually when they get them they only get 1 at a time. The $10's can be a pain to get, it took me a while to get the Cinderella $10, but I had no problem getting the Sleeping Beauty $5, and the Ariel $1. BTW my kids treat them just as money, which is why I have a couple of Dumbo $1's in my wallet that I bought off of one of them after a Disneyworld visit. The best way to get the Disney Dollars is in their stores, there they go for face, it is in the aftermarket that they get ridiculous in prices. My daughter recently decided she did not want her 2000 $5 with Goofy, so we peddled it off on eBay and it sold for $18.00, not a bad return for a $5 purchase.

Got in a few Yemen and one Syria banknote today.

I can see me going for those with the historical monuments on they are great

Well, after a bad week at work, when I came on Friday, I was surprised to find that all my ordered notes from separate dealers all came in… well, actually, one came in yesterday, but it was registered mail, so my wife went to the post office to get it for me. While she was gone, another registered mail notice was left on our door! So I still have to get that one tomorrow!

Anyhow, I was very pleased to go over my new notes I’d been looking forward to getting - Especially as they are all notes I have been wanting for a while, but just not able to track them down.

I like those Japanese notes, I seen some recently in a shop in central London & was considering getting some, but the book I wanted came 1st LOL

i like those japanese notes too.

but that saudi dude is one funny-looking guy.

Very interesting notes!

That's primarily why I got it!

Well, today I picked up the last that I had on order. It isn't in great shape, but it's getting harder to find these in XF or Better, so for now I'll be satisfied with this. (Should have got it earlier when they were more commonly seen).

OK it has to be said that is a seriously dramatic banknote LOL Swiss?

Indeed it is Swiss. Dates 1970.

For a long time I had thought that it was depicting a warrior type scene, perhaps a fallen comrade, or a wounded foe, but it isn't. It turns out that this is a depiction of a generous act by St. Martin who, coming across a cold, shivering beggar, cut his cloak in half, along with a loaf of bread, and said 'this is all I have, but I will share it with you'.

As far as I know the child on the front with a lamb is allegorical. There are two larger denomination notes in this series... I don't know that I will be able to afford them, or be able to find them. I've seen the 500 for sale once, but I have never seen the 1000 franc.

Yeah.. very dramatic note. I swear the child looks like its forcing the lamb to open its mouth and eat the flower. He's got a mischievous look in his eyes.

Ah yes and the cloak miraculously grows back to its original size

You already have in your collection new Kazakhstan BN??

other Kazakhstan denominations

High value Kazakstan notes

Received in today from Hong Kong, China this lovely note.

It is a year 1926 2 Tiao from China - Changtung, Pingdu, Shui Chang Xiang .... Well, let's just say China.

Dave that is rather nice I like the scenes on the front a lot Those Kazakstany notes are colorful to say the least

Yet more stuff came in today. Woo!


I need a better storage container

A bundle of those really nice Suriname notes from 2000

A Scottish 5 Pound Note - Jack Nicklaus version

3 of the 4 20 HKD Notes

A metric ton of notes from Indonesia

Congolese Francs

[b]Estonian Small Bills

Russian Rubles

Rwandan Francs

Brazilian Reais

Canadian Dollars - UNC from a Travelex Kiosk!

Chinese Yuan Remnibi - Someday at parity with the USD?

Armenian Dram - Nices looking notes from Central Asia, IMO

wow...so many notes. You can start an online banknote shop selling them.

I like the Royal Bank of Scotland £5 & the HK notes best

Very nice, sometime I want to collect more early 20th century Chinese myself.

I received these the other day, a complete set of JIM notes from 1-cent to $1,000:

This one sailed into my mailbox today and discovered a safe port to stay.