TURKMENISTAN AGAIN

Here is a note from another of the former soviet union, Turkmenistan was formerly known as Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic and declared independence in 1991. This note is from 1995 issue and is the 50 Manat note with president Niyazov on the front and the reverse has the now ruined Anew Mosque. 

More notes Here

SURINAME 100 GULDEN NOTE

I have to admit that I love notes from Suriname, they are so colourful  and great designs. This one is a 100 gulden note from 1982 . the reverse has the presidential palace in the capital city Paramaribo.

more notes HERE and HERE

SOME MONGOLIAN DOUBLERS

These two notes are "doublers" or ones that i have already the top one, 20 tugrik is a slightly earlier version of the one I have and the 1 tugrik note is the same 1955 issue.

you can find more Mongolian notes HERE and HERE

1 TENGE NOTE WITH A MUSLIM SCHOLAR FROM KAZAKHSTAN

This note is from one of the former Russian Soviet Republics.  Kazakstan became independent in 1991 and this note is from the first issue after independence. It is a 1 Tenge note  from 1993 with Al-Farabi, a Muslim psychologist scholar on the front and architectural drawings of a mosque on the reverse.

more notes HERE

A BETTER 5 RUPEE NOTE

This note is not a new one to the collection it is a replacement for one I have had for a  few years but in much worse condition you can see the description HERE below is the original note in the collection'

20 000 LARUS FROM GEORGIA

this note defeated the scanner and the reverse is slightly longer but the white part was not picked up.
THis note is the 20000 Larus note from Georgia and it is from the 1994 issue and has griffins on the front and grape vines on the reverse.

more from Georgia HERE

A COLOURFUL NOTE FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

I love the colours in this note they make it stand out from other notes. It is the 5 Peso note from the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean. Francisco del Rosario Sanchez features on the front and the Presa del Valdesia hydroelectric dam on the reverse.

more notes from Dominican republic HERE

10 CENTS FROM THE VICHY GOVERNMENT

This tiny note is from french Indo-china which was an area of SE Asia encompassing Laos Burma,Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. This area was occupied by the french up until the second world war. The 10 Cents note above was printed by the french Vichy government who sided with the nazis and it was printed  in 1942

THE ECUADORIAN SUCRE

This is the 100 sucre note from Ecuador with  a stern looking Simon Bolivar on the front and a rendition of the country's coat of arms on the reverse.

The Sucre , as well as being the Ecuadorian money it is also a proposed regional currency proposed by the Bolivian alliance for the Americas (ALBA) as a direct alternative to the free trade agreement of the Americas and the use of the US dollar as a medium of exchange that would lessen the influence of the US in south america.

1 YUAN FROM CHINA

This note is the 1 yuan note from 1980. it has youth from the ethnic dong and yao peoples on the front and the great wall of china on the reverse.

The official name of the currency is Ren Min Bi Yuan  or  "the peoples currency " Yuan.

THE 100 000 PESO NOTE

Here we have a 100000 peso note from Bolivia. this note was issued in 1984 and has a "campesino" or an indigenous Indian man. on the reverse it has a picture of some agricultural machines and the words "reforma agraria" or agrarian reform in English

See more notes HERE.

ANOTHER ARGENTINIAN

Here is a 50 peso note from Argentina and was issued in the batch from 1976-78. The front has Jose de san Martin one of the main liberators of South America and a contemporary of Simon Bolivar . the reverse has the hot springs from the province of Jujuy.

More notes from Argentina HERE

A BLUE NOTE FROM YEMEN

The scans of this note don't really portray the blue in the note, it really stands out and thats what attracted me to this note. It is a 10 Rial note from the Yemen Arab Republic and was issued in 1992 after reunification of the two Yemeni republics. The front has the Saleh Mosque and the reverse has the Ma'rib dam on it.

More Yemeni notes HERE

BOMBED NOTE THAT WAS NEVER ISSUED

This is a bit of an interesting note with a bit of history to it. It is the Turkish 50 Kurus note from 1942-44. It however was not issued because while being delivered from the printers by boat towards the beginning of WWII, the boat was bombed by the Germans in the Greek harbour of Piraeus and later they were retrieved by locals which led to Turkey cancelling the notes and re-issuing a different note. The note has President Inonu on the front and the bank building on the reverse.

more Turkish notes HERE and HERE

TWO GREEK NOTES

The two notes above are from Pre-Euro Greece. The top note is the older , from 1942 and is the 5000 drachma note. The front has two workers on either side of the statue of Nike of Samothrace and on the reverse is farmers hard at work !!
The lower note is a slightly newer note from 1964 and has the head of Arethusa on the front and ancient  and modern ship builders on the reverse.

More Greek notes HERE

TWO INDONESIAN 500 RUPIAH NOTES

The two notes above are both 500 Rupiah notes from the bank Indonesia but from different dates.
the top note with the Urangutan on the front and a traditional Timur house on the reverse, comes from 1992. Where as the other note, which has the Javan Rusa on the front and the Gedung bank building in the dutch colonial city of Cirebon, is from 1988


More Indonesian notes HERE , HERE and HERE

DONATED NOTES

All the notes in this post were given to me by one of my colleagues who I met while counting the postal ballots at the "brexit" referendum. Mary does a lot of travelling and had a few notes hanging about which she passed on to me. Thank you . Good luck on your travels.

The first two notes are from the African Continent .The first one is the 1000 shillings from Uganda and dated as 2015.The reverse of the note, as well as some antelope it also has the outline of the country's borders with a line where the equator travels across the country. The second, slightly older note is from 2013 and comes from Ghana. The 5 Cedis note has the big six and independence arch on the front and on the reverse is the university of Ghana and the Balme library

see more Ugandan notes HERE and Ghana notes HERE, HERE and HERE

These next two notes, from the Asian continent, are from Malaysia and Sri Lanka respectively.
The first is the 1 Ringgit and although it has no date on it it has to be after 2012 and has T A Rahman on the front with a Malaysian moon kite on the reverse.
the second note is a 10 rupee from Sri Lanka with the lion on the front and the stork and government secritariat building as well as flowers at the bottom.

see more notes from Malaysia HERE and more  from Sri Lanka HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE

This next note is from the UAE and is the 10 Diram note from 2007 sporting the Khanjar , the ceremonial dagger of the region. on the front  and a farm with a bird of prey on the lower left.

More UAE notes HERE

The final note is the Polish 20 Zlotych note from 1994 with Boleslaw I , the first king of Poland with one of his silver Denar coins on the reverse.

More Polish Notes HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE