By: Flashman
This French note states that 'conterfeiters will be punished by a life sentence of forced labour.'
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I have this note. I use it as a bookmark. The pictorial engravings and guilloche patterns really put U.S. currency to shame.
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Banknote.ws attempts to collect and classify images of all the world's paper currency, both historical and modern, whether it's sublimely beautiful or utterly worthless. If you prefer your banknotes...
View ArticleBy: edeezy
I bought a bunch of those $100 trillion Zimbabwe notes and used to include them in birthday cards. They make great bookmarks.
View ArticleBy: sonic meat machine
The best bill. It's almost surreal to hold this. It's about $25 – a little less, actually.
View ArticleBy: knapah
Nice to see they have the polymer banknote issued in Northern Ireland by Northern Bank to commemorate the Millennium. I always found it weird that it had a space shuttle on it.
View ArticleBy: Jimbob
Kinda weird to see all these pictures of money without SAMPLE ONLY printed across them in bold.
View ArticleBy: PinkMoose
Can i complain about how ugly, cack handed, misogynst, and icky canadian money is recently. Also, the prettiest note I have ever seen is the 10 pound British note.
View ArticleBy: yoink
It looks like the woman with the bared chest on the 1896 five-dollar bill That would be a good image to wheel out the next time someone goes on about "prudish Victorians." Think of the shit storm...
View ArticleBy: compartment
The lettering on this 1890 five-dollar bill looks like it belongs on a casino marquee in Reno, Nevada. I wonder if casino signs share that look because that style of lettering used to be much more...
View ArticleBy: saturday_morning
$1.00 - History Instructing Youth Super cool. Bonus: Martha and George Washington on the other face.
View ArticleBy: Curious Artificer
The U.S. used to take some more pride in our currency. For my money (ha!) the best were the Silver Certificates of 1896: $1.00 - History Instructing Youth$2.00 - Science Presenting Steam and...
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