MIS IDENTIFIED UKRAINE

This note has been popping back and forth between Uzbekistan and Ukraine as I couldn't definitely identify the note but I finally have sussed it out. Although this note has 2006 on reverse it is actually the 2003 issue. the note is a 1 Hyrvnai note from the Ukrainian national bank.

This note has Vladimir the great on the front and  his fortress in Kiev   on the reverse

TWO OLD GERMAN NOTES

Here we have 2 notes from the first part of the 20th century. The first note (top two pics) is the 1908 100 Mark note. Three issues were released at once, this one has a green serial number, one other has a red serial number and the third has Mercury, Ceres and Germania on the note.

The second note is a uniface (printed on one side only) note and it is the 2 million mark note from 1923. Right in the middle of the weirmar hyperinflation period.

More German notes  HERE

CANADIAN 2 DOLLAR NOTE

This is a 1986 issue of the Canadian dollar with Queen Elizabeth II and the Centre Block of the parliament building to the right of her. The reverse has a couple of American Robins in a field.

More Canadian notes HERE

POLISH 5 MAREK NOTE

Here we have a very well used 5 Marek Polish Mark) note issued in poland in 1919. This was the 3rd issue of that year. During and after the second world war Poland was administered by Austria and there were 4 currencies in circulation in Poland but none of them Polish, in 1917 they issued their own currency linked to the German mark but with the war and armed struggles after the polish currency failed and inflation went through the roof.

The note above was issued at the start of the hype inflation.the 1922-23 issue starts at 10000 marek as the lowest note.

This note has Tadeusz Kosciuszko , a military leader from the late 1700's and early 1800's on the front right of the note

More Polish Notes HERE and HERE and Danzig notes HERE

I FOUND LENIN !!

Before we get to Lenin, here is a more modern Russian note - the 10000 rouble note from 1995. This was the second issue after the dissolution of the USSR on Christmas day 1991. It has the bridge over the river Yenisei at Krasnoyarsk along with the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Chapel . the reverse has the hydro electric dam at Kranovarsk.

And now for Lenin. Here he is on the 1 Chervonet note from 1937, 13 years after his death. The Chervonet was used as a parallel currency while the civil war was being fought in Russia and the Bolshevik government was trying to devalue the rouble. the name comes from the polish Czerwony zloty. There is some debate but this issue might have been issued to commemorate 20 years of the Bolshevik revolution !! although not very valuable, this is a note I wanted to get for a while.

See more Russian notes HERE and HERE 

TWO ITALIAN GENTLEMEN

These are two Italian notes from the 1970's. The first is the 1976, 10000 lire note with Machiavelli on the front.

The second note is the 2000 lire from 1973. It has Galileo on the front and the zodiac and the Galileo telescope on the reverse. If you look closely it also has the leaning tower of pisa on the front.

More Italian Notes HERE