PANAMA TEST NOTE

This is the 20 Balboa test note from 2014. Panama has been using US dollars so this might be a move to having their own currency.



TEST NOTES

Test money  are a part of the test apparatus that are often used with currency handling equipment, such as automatic teller machines.

While it is often desirable to use actual banknotes or coins in the process of testing currency handling equipment, the inherent value of the objects being used means that security procedures must be put in place during the testing period that they are used. If the testing includes destructive testing, where the currency is purposefully damaged or destroyed to see how the machinery will react, further concern will be raised about the subsequent loss in value of the objects. To remove these concerns, test money is often used in place of real currency.

Test money may share some or all of the characteristics of a given currency (size, paper type, paper thickness, colouring, printing characteristics, various denominations), but it also has some form of easily identifiable, non-removable, non-mutable characteristics that differentiate it from legal tender, scrip, or counterfeit currency.

For certain types of bulk cash handling equipment, the test money units may represent bundled or rolled currency.

SHILIN SOOMAALI

Here is an addition to the 5 shilin note HERE

This is a 50 shilin soomaali note from 1991. The Front has a man operating a loom. The reverse has  someone leading a donkey with children on it, the  watermark is sayyid  MohamadAabdullah hassan

MORE KYRGYZSTAN

Some new additions to  Kyrgyzstan

First of all is the 10 som note with KasymTynystanov (Kyrgyz: Касым Тыныстанов) (1901–1938) who was a prominent Kyrgyz scientist, politician and poet. He served as the first Minister of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic.  and  mountains on reverse. The watermark is the portrait of kasim

Then there is the 5 som note with ballerina BibisaraBeishenaliyeva (1926-1973)  on the front and the national opera theatre on the back.

the 1 som Description is  here

EXPANDED MALAWI COLLECTION

Some new notes to top up my Malawi collection.

100 kwacha note has JamesFredrick Sangala, who was the president and one of the founding members of the Nyasaland African Congress.  On the reverse is the college of medicine in Blantyre  

50 kwacha note has Philip II ruler of the Ngoni dynasty from 1896 – 1954 on the front   and a picture from the kasungu nature reserve on the back. 

20 kwacha – This one is a doubler so you can find a description here and more Malawi notes here