#my banknotes

[circulating-eel]

10 won, 1983 North Korea

A banknote converted to a foreign exchange certificate, this note is marked with a red stamp to show that is to be used by people from western nations.

[anguilliforme]

YOUR TURN !!! BANKNOTE TOUR !!

ooh okay!!!! I have two banknote folders- one for my standard world notes and another for hyperinflation notes and any banknotes too large to fit into the first folder.

the renniks is the latter, i have 45 hyperinflation notes, a couple of my faves:

these nicaraguan ones which have the higher values hastily stamped over with black ink that glows under UV. I'm sure you've seen my fascination with hyperiflation designs before. the rushed desperation of the stamp-over style really gets to me.

here is the hundred trillion dollar note that i stayed up past midnight to make sure nobody outbid me, i got it for far less than a lot of hundred trillions are going for these days.

Also in the folder are my Big notes, for some of these i had to craft my own archive slip out of two XXL slips!

this includes my largest note, the thai 60 baht commemorative note.

Now onto my other folder, this one is considerably larger, and while its not completely filled, it's a few spending sprees away from me needing a new one:

I have mine organised in "kind of alphabetical" order. that just means that i bothered to put my notes in an a-is-for-australia, b-is-for-bhutan order but i didn't bother to alphabetise any more than that. Some of the highlights of the notes:

arabic countries absolutely go off with their designs! i'm a lover of both aesthetics and scripts that aren't latin, so these banknotes appeal greatly.

i've always found the netherland's 2 1/2 banknotes and coins so fun to look at. logically i get that it's just half of five and is probably a lot more useful when it comes to transactions but. fraction on a banknote.

my forgery peso! i got this one at a coin/banknote con last year. it was clearly labelled as a forgery and i was so intrigued about its circumstances that i had to get it.

this french algerian banknote (centre) is my most weak and pathetic banknote. i genuinely thought it was going to crumble in my hand as i put it in the archive slip. i've never been more scared to put a banknote into a slip. it's not coming back out because i don't think it would survive the journey.

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this barbadian $2 note with the windmill….. i fear i won’t recover

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if it hasn’t been obvious, lately i’ve been trying to get a couple of beautiful modern banknote designs in my collection! this circulating commemorative note from china was high on my list!

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absolutely obsessed with this 2000 tenge banknote design. from the saiga (gods perfect ungulate) to the gold seal (absolutely beautiful irl) this might be one of my favourite modern banknote designs

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greek banknote designs always look so beautiful. even in the throes of hyperinflation they’re still putting out gorgeous designs like this.

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a one cent banknote! being less than 10cm long it’s absolutely tiny in the world of banknotes.

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my parents have both retired! they went for a celebratory trip to south korea and kindly bough me back a 50,000 won note! it’s got such a lovely design. i feel like we don’t get enough yellow notes these days.