THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS

Now, I've been waiting to get this note for ages and everytime i saw it on ebay it went for crazy prices and then i found it right here on my doorstep at Robert Murray's Stamp Shop and had a good blether about the Independence referendum as well. I managed to get this and the previous two notes as well as some accessories too. so i was well chuffed!!

This note is the 10 Cents note from the Straits Settlements, a group of British Territories which included Singapore, Malacca, Dinding and Penang. The note is from 1919. The Straits settlements was in existence from 1826 until 1946, first as a British colony, then under Japanese occupation during WWII. After the war Singapore became independent and the others joining the Malayan union which became modern day Malaysia.

MALAYA AND NORTH BORNEO

Now when I saw this note I got excited as I thought it was one I have been looking for but it was British North Borneo I needed. However, I haven't got notes from Malaya and North Borneo so it was still good.  Malaya and North Borneo is not a country but a currency union of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo, Brunei and Riau archipelago. Which lasted from 1953 to 1967

This note is the one dollar note from 1959 which has a sailing boat on the front and another boat and the sheilds of the states on the reverse.

THE CYPRIOT POUND

This is the one pound (£1) from Cyprus issued in 1993. the bank name is in Turkish and Greek on the front and English on the back. The front has a mosaic of a nymph and on the reverse is the abbey at Bellapais .

CHINESE CUSTOM GOLD UNITS

I think these are my favourites from the batch probably because they are printed vertically instead of the more usual horizontal printing.

The top note is the 20 Customs gold units with the issue date as 1930 but these notes were issued right through the 1940's with the 1930 date on them.

similarily the 10 Custom gold units  had the 1930 issue date  through the 1940's too. the 10 cgu note also had 3 different signatures and at the bottom right had two versions - "asst general manager" and " Assistant manager" the one above is the former and i have another one in worse condition with the other one.

Custom Gold Units were primarily used for customs transactions but were issued into general  use too.

THE 2ND BATCH - CHINA NOTES

The next two Chinese notes from the new batch are above and are both 10 Yuan Notes.

The first one was issued by The Bank of Communications in 1935. The bank still operates to this day. It has electricity pylons on the front and what looks like a fortress temple on the reverse.

The second one above is from 1940 and was issued by the Bank of China . It has  Sun Yat-sen on the front and the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on the reverse.

This one stumped me for a while but it just took a bit of reading up to get the details. This note was issued by the Central bank of China in 1945. It has Sun Yat-sen on the front - apart from the photo and the numerals 500 it is in chinese script which made it more difficult to research.

The notes above are the 1 and 2 Jiao note from the 1980 issue described here

THE 1ST BATCH - CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA 1930 AND 1940'S

 I managed to get a pile of Chinese notes from an antiques fair at the weekend and so there are a lot of them, some of them quite interesting, so I will split them up over 3 or 4 posts.

This first lot are all from the Central bank of China and are from the 1930's and 40's. They are all pre - the people's republic as it came into being in 1949.

The first note at the top is the 5 Dollars and was issued from Shanghai in 1930, with Sun Yat-sen on the front and a chinese temple on the back.

The next one is the 10 Yuan from 1936 again with Sun Yat-sen and a temple on the reverse.

The third note is the 20 Yuan from 1948 with Chiang kai-shek on the front and a building on the reverse.

Finally, its the 100 Yuan with sun yat-sen on the front and this is from 1941.

UV HELPING TO ID TURKEY'S NOTES

Well there was 2 countries i thought I would never get more notes from. Turkey was one of them - Yugoslavia being the other !! As when i started collecting I had thousands of Turkish lira but here we are and a small note in with a lot of 10 notes turned out to be the 10 Lira note above and, as the size was a lot smaller that the others i have, maybe its time to look at Turkey again !!

As I said above its a 10 Lira note from 1970  with the obligatory picture of Ataturk on the front and on the reverse he is being  presented with some some flower from children. The 1970 issue has two versions, neither printed in 1970, the first was in  1979 which has a security band which glows blue under UV. the other is the same but the security numbers glow a yellow/gold under UV as well. Its the second of these that this note is so printed in 1982.


More from Turkey Here

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND £5

This one is one i got excited about - I know getting excited about an old out-of-date fiver is sad !! I haven't added any new Scottish notes for ages. This is a 5 Pound (£5) from the Royal Bank of Scotland and dated 1956 and is uniface i.e. the back is blank.

Rather than the signatures, which usually define the date of the note (other than when it is printed on it ) in this case it is the printer that is significant. This note it has W and AK Johnstone and G W Bacon ( you can see it just below the crest in the top middle of the note) if it has just AK Johnstone LTD it is more desirable and therefore more expensive and if it has the first one with LTD added to G W  Bacon its the most desirable of all, demanding a premium amount !!

Sir William Johnstone

Lord provost of Edinburgh (1848-51)

One of the founders of the printing company above became Lord provost of Edinburgh - sort of like a Mayor for 4 of the biggest Scottish cities.

RUSSIAN DATE JUGGLING

 These are two russian notes . The first is a 5 Rouble note dated as 1909 but the signature is I Shipov who's signature didn't appear until 1912 and he signed the notes until 1917. I like this note for two reasons one i am fascinated with Russia, both tzarist and Bolshevik. the other is that this is a vertically printed  note which is much more uncommon.

The second note is the  3 Rouble dated as 1905 but again the signature of A Konshin (on the right) dates it between 1909 and 1912

I already have a similar note to this one. You can see it HERE

POLISH ZLOTYCH

Here we have a Polish 20 Zlotych (pronounced like Slotty??)  from 1982 and has Romuald Traugutt one of the leaders of the January uprising in 1863.

more polish notes HERE

MALAYA UNDER JAPANESE OCCUPATION

Malaya, now Malaysia, was a former British colony - one of the most lucrative for the empire as it had lots of tin and rubber-  but was occupied by the Japanese during world war II and was returned after the war to the British before an armed uprising gained the people independence in 1957.

The note above is from the Japanese occupation period and was issued in 1942. the japanese seem to have used a similar template for most of the places they occupied and only the name of the money was changed, dollars in this case, rupee, rupie of rupiah.

more Malayan notes HERE

SADDAM HUSSEIN ON IRAQI NOTES

Here we have 3 notes from Iraq, two of which are the issue with Saddam Hussein on them - sometimes touted on the internet for those who collect notes with dictators on them. The first two , with Saddam Hussein on them, are the 10 and 50 Dinar notes from 1992 and 1994 respectively.

The 10 dinars note has the statue from Khorsabad on the reverse. whereas the 50 dinars note has the double decked bridge in Bagdad on the reverse.

The last note is the 25 dinar note from the emergency gulf war issue (1st gulf war - I think we are starting our 3rd one this week). It has 3 Arabian horses on the front and the Abbasid palace on the reverse.

You can see more Iraqi notes HERE

TWO AND A HALF RUPIAH FROM INDONESIA

This note has caused me a bit of a headache. My database is set up to accept whole numbers only so 2 1/2 |Rupiahs doesn't fit !!. will have a look at changing it later today.  In the meantime ......

This Note is an Indonesian 2 1/2 Rupiah note from 1961 with the  theme of "cornfields"

This is the third post about Indonesia and you can find the others HERE and HERE

a few countries use a currency called rupiah or similar - Rupiah, Rupee, Rupie etc