Balaji Murthy

I think that is a fair comment. I wasn't making a judgment on the issue itself, rather just highlighting that after relatively for a long time, the new series seem to be beset with needless controversies. First, the reaction about the Vimy memorial on the $20 bill, and then this.

BoC purges image of Asian-looking woman from $100 banknotes Read more: http://www.ctvnews.c...7#ixzz246ztADAM

To Dave M. There could be two possibilities. One, the person owning the above website simply appropriated the images from your website and attached a blanket acknowledgment and considered that good in case you or someone else complained about the stolen images. Second, he/she pulled the images from a third website (e.g. Ron Wise's) where you may indeed have donated the scans and retained the attributions from that site.

I saw the images of the note. This is an attempt by a very ignorant journalist to stir up some sensationalism, nothing more. People should completely ignore it. It looks like a lot of thought has gone into the design of the note and some very appropriate imagery has been incorporated.

I am curious! What is a coinstar collection?

Hello Anil, thanks for the link, it is a nice web page. My question was specifically about the book and about any other published material.

Try the following links, very brief, but should be a good starting point. http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/chron_s.html http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/deliv_s.html I am not much knowledgeable about US currency, there should be people here who can certainly add to this. Hope this helps!!

I want to briefly post about 2 books that I recently got. 1) Revised Standard Reference Guide to the Indian Paper Money, by Rezwan Razack and Kishore Jhunjhunwalla, 2012 For those interested in Indian Paper Money, this revised edition is the definitive reference and elevates the content of an already formidable first edition. While it contains everything a reference of this nature should, a unique new feature of this book is the documentation and reproduction of the watermarks for each issue. Some details can be seen here http://indianbanknot...e-guide-to.html 2) "УЧЕНЫЕ НА МОНЕТАХ МИРА" or "Scientists on World Currency" By Alexander Vasiliev, 2005 This intriguing book details "eminent astronomers, mathematicians and physicists" on regular and commemorative coins and banknotes of the world. There are a total of 170 coins and 75 banknotes listed featuring a total of 86 personalities. This is the first such book that I have seen that deals with a specialized topic like this, very much in line with the fascinating animal banknote series that has been presented right here on coinpeople. Unfortunately, the book is written in Russian which I am not familiar with, so I am a little handicapped in presenting a worthwhile review. Also, since I do not collect coins, I am not able to appreciate that part of the book, but the banknote section is really wonderful. I know I will spend some time to check my collection for items from this book. Anyone else familiar with this (2nd) book? I would love to get some other impressions. Also, would love to hear about more such specialized and esoteric areas.

Yes, these are fake.

Usually, I enjoy the posts on this forum, however, the above post was in poor taste. I realize no malice was intended instead perhaps humor was, unfortunately off color and it speaks of general ignorance and stereotypes. BTW, there are no Hindu gods to be found in Classical Italian art.

I used to wonder what his main interests are, now I don't know what he is not a collector of . Usually, he has insightful comments about most areas even if doesn't actually actively collect everything.

Compare with Microsoft who included it in one of the symbol font libraries a few years ago and under pressure from some groups wimped out and issued a "patch" to take it out, without ever specifying the change or the reason. Swastika is indeed a very old symbol. In fact, if you ever get a chance to visit India, you would be probably surprised at how ubiquitous it is.

No, this is Algeria!

There is a substantial Indian population in that part of Africa (East Africa) dating back to late 19th century mostly taken there by the British. As a result several countries used Rupee (or a variant) as their currency (including areas under Germany and Italy). The ones with larger populations had Indian scripts in their currency, viz, British East Africa (used Shilling as the currency), Mauritius and Zanzibar. Mauritius still uses Tamil and Hindi and is still on Rupee. Even today Rupee is a reasonably widely used currency.

Nice looking notes. These are of interest to me, not because of QE II, of course, but because it features an Indian script (Gujarati Alphabet). Similarly, of interest to me is also the currency from Mauritius, which features the Tamil script. Mauritius, also because it is Rupee.

A beautiful note!! No denomination?

Wow! These Ugandan notes are beautiful. I should probably expand my interest to African notes.

P.F.Chang's

OK! I just assumed as I also saw the MAS issues as your recent purchase! Maybe that is not from Mavin's either!! Didn't mean to digress from the fact that these are great notes! BTW, I do believe I have seen you and a few others here post on r.c.p-m in the past. Certainly I recall an exchange where I mentioned the common availability of Indian solid banknotes!!

Darn, I missed the Mavin's completely, there were a couple of lots I had my eye on!! Good catch on the solids there!! I assume these are from Mavin's auction!

I collect only the small size in US Currency, and this was nearly the toughest note for me to acquire. But the prices have really climbed since I got mine a few years ago.

The ethnicity series is really well done. A few years ago I happened by a booklet of uncut notes for the whole series. I am attaching a pic of the 5 jiao note. It is not a scan as my scanner is not big enough for this. Hopefully it come through OK.

Curious, what is NCLT? I can understand by context, but would like if someone can put out what it stands for!!!

Just saw this. I do have an interest in error notes. However, I have no expertise in this. While I am fascinated by more esoteric errors, e.g. mismatched serial numbers, gross misprint etc, there seems to be a huge interest in even errors like, gutter folds, uneven ink or even imperfect margins. I would love to see any images or knowledge you have to share.

My Arabic is very shaky. There are actually two panels in the back, they seem to be Arabic (on the left) and Persian (on the right). The first line is the translation of the phrase Bank of West Africa, that much I can read. The remaining lines are beyond my current capability.