Just created these mystical pictures for the four countries section - Guernsey, Jordan, Turkey and Malta. Have yet to upload them into my website.



enjoy

The Jordanian note is great. Love the colors.


Something really sticks out at me with the Turkish collage... don't quite know what it is...

Something like you cannot keep your eyes out of the centre of the image?

At the moment I have bought some random notes but I'm aiming to get the following during this year:

UK

Series B £5 Britannia Head

Series C £5 & £10

Series D £20 William Shakesphere

Series F £20 Adam Smith - although technically these won't be worth anything over their face value for ages it's often hard to get a £20 uncircualated & £20 go up quite a bit in value once out of circulation.

Any banknote featuring Queen Elizabeth II, the Eastern Carribean states are quite interesting & so are some of the crown dependancy notes (Isle Of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Falklands, Gibraltar & St Helna and Ascension). Would also like to get the Austrlian $5 & New Zealand $20 with Lizzie on and any of their notes prior to the current QEII designs, I believe New Zealand used to have her on every not till the polymere ones were introduced. Canada also have some interesting ones of QEII as well

USA notes from $1-$50 in green seal, large head & colourful versions (Not sure of the official names for these)

I call them at most $88.

Oh you mean the Turkish belly dancer ?

It is great to collect world notes with QEII both earlier ones and current ones.

heheh...it's either the belly dancer, or everyone is trying to figure out what is crawling on top of the little girl's nose.

the most interesting QEII note i've seen is the infamous 1972 50-rupee seychelles 'sex' note. i still haven't landed one for my collection, (they're a little expensive), but i reeeeally think they're awesome. one of these days...

from ron wise' homepage:
<img src="http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/banknotes/seychelles/seychellesp17d-50Rupees-1972-donated_f.jpg" height="385" width="676">
(tilt your head to the right and read the two palm trees behind her majesty)

Yup. That's a famous QEII note but it took me sometime to figure it out which were actually the palm or coconut leaves that spell the word "sex"

Thanks for pointing that out I was trying to see where the two people.... you get the idea

You've stirred my interest now I want one of those

heheh...here's something to make it easier to read:

Is good to specialize on world QEII banknotes and get something extra. A must in your QEII collection.

So go and get one now.

I must get one for my collection too.

New area I'm collecting as well: Brazil

United Arab Emirates Solid Collection !

(Yup. That's a famous QEII note but it took me sometime to figure it out which were actually the palm or coconut leaves that spell the word "sex" )

this note has attract me too. Anyone who's the cost $? of this note...planing to get one for my collection.

I really admire all the pic, culture, colours and the passion on your work.
what software are you using for the design?

Anyone from this forum who are willing to sell any of this notes as listed below.

Banknote wantlist

Cook Islands: 3 Dollar
Djibouti: 1000 Francs
Frensh West Africa: 5 Franc
Ghana: 2 Cedis
Madagascar: 25000 Franc
New Zeeland: 10 Dollar
Papua New Guinea: 2 Kina (polymer)
Samoa: 2 Tala (polymer)
Seychelles: 10 Rupees
Somalia: 10 Shilling
Sri Lanka: 200 Rupees (polymer)
South Africa: 10 Rand
St Tome and Principe: 500 Dobras
Thailand: 50 Bath (polymer)
Comoros: 100 Francs 1963
Comoros: 500 Francs 1994
Comoros: 1000 Francs 1984
Comoros: 5000 Francs 1984
Comoros: 2500 Francs 1997
Comoros: 10000 Francs 1997
Djibouti: 10 Francs 1946
Djibouti: 2000 Francs 1997
Algeria: 5 Dinars 1970
Gambia: 50 Dalasis 2001
Guinea-Bissau: 100 Pesos 1975
Thailand: 100 Baht (2002 polymer)
Oman: 1 Rial (Very Rare Uncirculated Limited Commemorative Banknote)
Italy: 50000 Lire (Leonardo da Vinci)
France: 500 Franc (Blaise Pascal (1982)
Thailand: 100 Baht (2004)
Thailand: 60 Baht (2006, polymer)
Frence: 100 Franc (René Descartes (1942)


I'm verymuch interested in all this note for my collection. May contact me at my e-mail address at
naidu54@hotmail. Thank you.

adobe photoshop.

These two little Peruvian girls caught my eyes when I was looking for materials creating the Peru solid 555555 section. Both come from different photograhers but their expression are similiar. Both have a hair clip at the end of their hair-do. When deciding the design during the creation, with these two little faces, I dropped the rest of the ideas to introduce the beautiful scenaries of Peru. After all, in every creation, there is one or more native children appearing. As always, banknote collecting starts from a young age and cultivating and introducing children into this hobby is definitely beneficial. In addition, they learn something about the world through the banknotes.

Enjoy

What would you put for a UK one? Shome Chavs, Some ladettes & a picture of Big Ben

I have not created the section for UK ( England ) yet. Since you are a Londoner, maybe you can make some suggestion. Big Ben maybe...or London Bridge. ... I probably need a child or children photos for it. Any ? Otherwise, I will be introducing some strangers into the creation.

I have one question. Under UK, it should comprises of Ireland, Scotland, England etc. Should I named it as England section instead of UK section since I do have a section on Ireland.

Thanks

Some of us take exception to the UK being referred to as "England".

You could probably find plenty of pictures of youths on www.bbc.co.uk/news search under ASBO

On a serious note (no pun intended) have a mixture of new & old buildings, country scences, local transport references, sports, etc. for The UK but you would in reality need at least three different areas:

England & Wales (as Wales doesn't make their own banknotes)
Scotland
Northern Ireland

However it I must point out (if you don't already know) that there are several banks for Scotland & Northern Ireland that issue banknotes, they are the following:

Scotland - Royal Bank Of Scotland, Bank Of Scotland & Clydesdale Bank
Northern Ireland - Northern Bank, Ulster Bank, First Trust Bank & Bank Of Ireland

Not to mention all of the banks that no longer issue them, thank God for England & Wales, it's easier (Bank Of England only)

There's also the crown dependancy islands as well: Isle Of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Falkland Islands, St Helena & Ascension Islands and Gibraltar.

I may have missed one from that lot but there are quite a few crown dependancy areas.

Thank you for the information. Why do they termed it as "crown dependancy" ? They used to term for example Singapore as crown colony and Hong Kong as British colony. I believe the word colony is no longer used in today context.

That's true. That's the usual normal.

I'm not entirely sure, it something to do with them being part of the UK but not part of the UK if you get what I mean, for example the Isle Of Man is not part of the UK but uses the Pound (although their version is know as the Manx Pound) and has the Queen as head of state, someone else may be able to shed more light onto why they are know as Crown Dependancies.

Any other country other than those that still have the Queen as the head of state or was once "owned" by the British Empire are members of the British Commonwealth, with the exception of the USA as the UK only owned part of it & Zimbabwe because of Robert Magabe (sp) deciding to leave it, of which since then their economy has gone to pot.

I like this design among all your others...this idea is simply great.

I too felt the same. Too many things on one picture makes it difficult and uncomfortable to view.

While working on selecting and finding indigenous people in Peru or as a whole in South America, I find it thrilling and surprised to find some of the Peru indigenous people look very much like Asians such as those from China, Mongolia, Koreas, Laos etc. They even look a bit like Tibetans, Nepalian etc. Due to their dark complexion with constant strong sunlights in the Andes mountains, they look like a mix of race from many nations. I read further, they somehow closer to Eskimo and Siberians. The sunlight have change their skin colour. Very interesting as I create these countries in the collection. Another area where you can see transformation and changes among races is from Turkey to Arabs countries in the Middle East and stretch to India. Between India and China, we have Nepalians, Brutans, Tibetans. It looks like a cross race. Just like mixing different colours to get a new colours. Can also see the Turkish and Iranians whom like like Europeans. When I was in South Africa in 1995, can see three distinct races. For those who have visited China in various provinces, you can experience the various Chinese dialect. When I was in Hokkien Province in 1995, there were already a few dialect within the province. In Singapore, we can speak at least 2 to 3 Chinese dialects due to diversed migrants from Southern China during my grandfather and father days. Some spoken words are similiar while others are a variations. Languages and races shape and make a dinstinction between the people. It is just like having a few primary colours for us to mix and create many new ones but you still can detect there are similarities among the new and primary ones.

When I first arrived in Qatar, I was surprised at all the Mexican laborers they had over there building everything and maintaining (as I would see them do in America). Turns out they were part of a massive population of Indonesians imported along with Pakistanis and Indians as laborers. This is building on your observation of latin/central americans vs. some Asians. Remember, I was only 13 at this time so I knew no better.

Quoting myself here.

Of all I listed here (along with Brazil which I decided to also specialise in after I posted here) the one that I find the most difficult to purchase off of Ebay is US notes rather suprisingly.

UK Sellers only seem to have $1 & $2 notes and most US sellers only sell to the US itself unfortunately

With a population of less than a million in Qatar, it is quite impossible to find suitable people to work on various jobs in a country. They need builders. They will also have a problem maintaining an army or air force. I believe they have very limited armed forces.

If you notice, during the opening of the Asian games in Qatar, the scale of display, performers, and choreograher are brought in from Egypt and Europe. The country is rich and there should not be aulny problem. It was a spectacular and truly remarkable show.

The banknotes from Qatar should be a good keep in time to come even for Dubai (UAE).

http://www.bvom.com/news/english/news/inde...85&.this=55

New 100k notes: plastic fantastic
On September 1 the State Bank (SBV) will issue the new VND100,000 polymer banknote to protect against counterfeiting

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I'd love to be able to visit Thailand, seems like a really interesting culture, and currency. Too bad I can't read a lick of the language, and get confused by the numberical symbols, lol. Nice note, btw. Isn't he the ruler who has been in power for 60 years or something close to it?

Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thai: ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช; IPA: [pʰu:mipʰon adunjadeːt]; Royal Institute: Phumiphon Adunyadet; listen (help·info)) (born December 5, 1927), officially styled "the Great" (Thai: มหาราช, Maharaja) and also known as Rama IX, is the current King of Thailand. His name, Bhumibol Adulyadej, means "Strength of the Land, Incomparable Power". Having reigned since June 9, 1946, Bhumibol is the world's longest-serving current head of state and the longest-serving monarch in Thai history

Although Bhumibol is a constitutional monarch, he has several times made decisive interventions in Thai politics, including the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis. Bhumibol has been widely credited with facilitating Thailand's transition to democracy in the 1990s, although in earlier periods of his reign he supported military regimes. Most recently, he did not oppose the September 2006 coup which overthrew the elected government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Bhumibol uses his great wealth to fund numerous development projects, particularly in rural areas. He is immensely popular in Thailand, and is revered as a semi-divine figure by many Thais. Critics, mostly outside Thailand, attribute this status to the suppression of criticism of the monarchy.

Bhumibol was born in the United States and educated primarily in Switzerland. Bhumibol is also an accomplished musician, artist, and sailor. He is one of the wealthiest people in the world and has received many honours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej

Just created the collection section for Canada.

The link is : http://www.notepassion.com/NP-BN-WS-555555-Canada.html

Kenya Solid Collection !

Link : http://www.notepassion.com/NP-BN-WS-555555-Kenya.html

i collect any notes but the British Commonwealth that have had the QE 11 head on are my favourite
Countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia, Cyprus and many others up to the time of independence and after.

It is a popular specialization on QEII portraits on banknotes of Commonwealth countries before independence. Many collectors collect QEII portrait banknotes. A good collection. You can post your scans at one of the topics that I have started earlier. Here is the link : http://www.coinpeople.com/Do-you-have-a-QE...on--t14100.html

i dont have a scanner as yet see323 but as soon i get one i will post pics.i am missing a few due to costs but i am still looking.

Actually I have one old Canon printer with scanner and photocopier. The printing function is not working properly. The scanner is still very good. All my banknotes uses this scanner. Unfortunately, you are not living in Singapore. Otherwise I can pass it to you. Nowadays, printer are not worth repairing. I repaired my this printer/scanner/photocopier once replacing the print head. Now after using more than a year, it spolit. The scanner is excellent.

For newer current series banknotes, try to go for uncirculated ones.

I would like to start concentrating on high denomination banknotes. I have a couple of them from Yugoslavia, but would like to expand into other countries as well...

I love the newer Zambian kwacha notes with the large eagle, and the 500 and 1000 are polymer notes too! But, the 5000, 10000, 20000, and 50000 notes have some awesome security features, and are just beautiful notes.....sadly, the highest I have is the 5000, I may get the set if I can find them, anyone have a source in Africa for me? Lol.

I love those notes from Zambia as well. I wouldnt mind having a set of those as well......

Acquire this note yesterday. I am really happy to add this piece into my 555555 collection.

A scarce 1938 Thailand 1 Baht solid 55555 ( only 5 digits serial number ) Type 4. He is King Rama 8.



King Ananda Mahidol or Rama VIII (long royal name: Phrabat Somdej Phra Paramenthara Maha Ananda Mahidol Phra Athama Ramathibodinthra Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหาอานันทมหิดล พระอัฐมรามาธิบดินทร (roughly "HM King Ananda Mahidol, the Eighth Ruler") (September 20, 1925 - June 9, 1946) was the eighth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand.


Early life
Prince Ananda Mahidol Mahidol (Mom Chao Ananda Mahidol Mahidol — หม่อมเจ้า อานันทมหิดล มหิดล) was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He was the first son of Prince Mahidol Adulyadej of Songkhla (son of King Chulalongkorn) and Mom Sangwal (last title Somdej Phra Sri Nakarindhara Boromaratchachonnani) who were studying there at the time. King Vajiravhud, his uncle, sent a telegram on October 13, 1925 auspiciously naming him "Ananda Mahidol" (อานันทมหิดล), meaning "the joy of Mahidol". ("Ananda Mahidol" is one word and is his first name. It is pronounced "Ananta Mahidon". When he held his birth rank of "Mom Chao" -- the lowest rank of Thai princes, he used the surname of "Mahidol" from his father; his name at this point was thus "Mom Chao Ananda Mahidol Mahidol").

He followed his parents to Paris, Lausanne, and then to Massachusetts when, in 1927, another uncle, King Prajadhipok issued a royal edict exalting him to the higher princely class of Phra Worawong Ther Phra Ong Chao. (This edict also benefited other "Mom Chao" who were the children of Chao Fa and their commoner wives, among them his elder sister Mom Chao Galyani Vadhana and his younger brother who, upon his birth later in the year, was born Phra Worawong Ther Phra Ong Chao Bhumibol Adulyadej).

The family returned to Thailand in 1928 after Prince Mahidol finished his medical studies at Harvard University. Prince Mahidol died at age 37 in 1929, when Ananda Mahidol was just 4 years old. His widowed mother was thus left to raise her family alone.

A coup d'etat in 1932 ended the absolute monarchy and raised the possibility that King Prajadhipok might abdicate. Queen Savang Vadhana, his grandmother, was concerned about Prince Ananda Mahidol's safety, since he was one of the likely heirs to the throne. It was then suggested that the Mahidol family again move to Lausanne. The official reason given was for the health and further education of the princes. They left Thailand in 1933 and Prince Ananda Mahidol spent most of his youth in Switzerland.

However, when King Prajadhipok's abdication appeared imminent, the Prince's mother was approached by a member of government, asking for her opinion about Ananda Mahidol becoming the next Thai monarch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Mahidol

Another Thailand solid 888888 acquisition.

A 1950s Rama 9 1 Baht 888888. A popular number among collectors.

Nice notes, especially the 1938 note, I like the dual numeral types for the serial number, and wonder how this note got saved after a long circulation.

I have a couple of Thai notes on my banknotebank page now, I have had them for who knows how long, I was surprised that they actually dated from the 1950's and not the 1970's as I suspected. I think I got them from my father from when he was in Thailand during the early 1970's.

I have been looking at the recent commemorative notes from Thailand, there are some very significant and attractive notes with sometimes interesting denominations like 60 Baht that surely must find a way to my collection.