Catalogue
Paper Money
Banknotes, treasury notes, emergency issues, occupation and colonial paper.
Records (20)
banknotes
Assignat
1789-1796
Paper money issued during the French Revolution, originally backed by confiscated land.
banknotes
Bank of England ten shilling note
20th century
A low-denomination Bank of England note issued until decimalisation replaced the denomination with a coin.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
Confederate States treasury notes
1861-1865
Paper treasury notes issued by the Confederate States of America, printed under wartime conditions in varying quality.
banknotes
Educational Series silver certificate
Series 1896
A United States silver certificate series widely noted for its allegorical engraved designs across three denominations.
emergency money
German Notgeld
c. 1914–1923
Emergency money issued in Germany by municipalities, companies and other local bodies during and after the First World War, in the absence of sufficient official small change.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
Rentenmark note
From 1923
Notes of the currency introduced to end the German hyperinflation, nominally secured against German land and industry.
banknotes
State credit note
19th to 20th century
Paper currency of the Russian Empire, including the large high-denomination notes of the early twentieth century.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
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.
emergency money
Weimar Republic — Reichsbanknote — 100,000 Mark — 1923
1923
High-denomination Reichsbanknote issued during the German hyperinflation of 1923.
banknotes
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.
banknotes
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.