Catalogue

Banknotes

Notes issued by central banks, governments, colonial and private issuers.

Records (18)

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Assignat

1789-1796

Paper money issued during the French Revolution, originally backed by confiscated land.

Documented

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Bank of England ten shilling note

20th century

A low-denomination Bank of England note issued until decimalisation replaced the denomination with a coin.

Documented

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Bank of England White Five Pound Note

19th century to 1957

Large-format Bank of England five pound note printed in black on white paper on one side only, in use until its withdrawal in the late 1950s.

Documented

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British colonial American paper currency

Colonial period

Paper currency issued by individual British North American colonies, typically bearing anti-counterfeiting devices such as nature printing.

Documented

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British Treasury one pound note (Bradbury)

From 1914

Emergency Treasury notes issued at the outbreak of the First World War, associated with the signature of John Bradbury.

Documented

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Confederate States treasury notes

1861-1865

Paper treasury notes issued by the Confederate States of America, printed under wartime conditions in varying quality.

Documented

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Educational Series silver certificate

Series 1896

A United States silver certificate series widely noted for its allegorical engraved designs across three denominations.

Well documented

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Hungarian B.-Pengo Notes, 1946

1946

Hungarian notes of the 1946 hyperinflation, denominated in milpengo and b.-pengo units where each unit stood for a million or a million million pengo respectively.

Well documented

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Large size legal tender note

1862 onwards

United States government notes of the large format used before the reduction in note size in the late 1920s.

Documented

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National Bank of Egypt banknotes

From 1899

Banknotes issued by the National Bank of Egypt, denominated in Egyptian pounds and piastres with bilingual Arabic and English text.

Documented

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Rentenmark note

From 1923

Notes of the currency introduced to end the German hyperinflation, nominally secured against German land and industry.

Well documented

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State credit note

19th to 20th century

Paper currency of the Russian Empire, including the large high-denomination notes of the early twentieth century.

Documented

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United States — Silver Certificate — 1 Dollar — Series 1935

Series 1935

One-dollar silver certificate of the Series 1935 family, redeemable in silver on demand at the time of issue.

Well documented

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United States national bank notes

1863-1935

Notes issued by federally chartered national banks, carrying both a national design and the issuing bank's name and charter number.

Documented

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United States one dollar silver certificate, 1957 series

1957 series

Small-size one dollar silver certificates with blue seals and serial numbers, among the last silver certificates issued for general circulation.

Well documented

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United States Two Dollar Federal Reserve Note, Series 1976

Series 1976

United States two dollar Federal Reserve note of Series 1976, issued for the bicentennial with a reverse based on Trumbull's painting of the Declaration of Independence.

Well documented

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Yugoslav Hyperinflation Dinar Notes, 1993–1994

1993–1994

Successive note series of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia issued during the hyperinflation of 1993 and 1994, culminating in extremely high denominations before currency reform.

Documented

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Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Dollar Note, 2008

2008

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe note for one hundred trillion dollars, the highest denomination of the 2008 hyperinflation series.

Well documented