TWO NOTES FROM GUINEA

 These two notes are from Guinea. although they have the 1st march 1960 on the notes, they were actually issued in 2006 and 2015 respectively. the 1000franc note has a girl on the front and ore mining on the back. the 100 franc note has a woman on the front and banana harvesting on the back.

More Guinea notes HERE

ADDITIONAL NOTE FOR THE BURUNDI COLLECTION

Here is a lovely purple 2000 franc note from Burundi. it was issued in 2015. This will add to the collection of which I already have the 500 and 1000 franc notes

More notes HERE

DIAMONDS FROM THE DRC

 This is the 500 franc note from the Democratic Republique of Congo. it was issued in 2013 and has diamond miners  and diamond mining in the Etroite valley. it has the head of an okapi as a watermark.

more notes from the DRC HERE and HERE

40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE FOR DJIBOUTI

 This note is the 40 francs note from 2017 which celebrates 40 years of independence form french rule after a referendum in 1977. The front has a magnificent picture of a whale shark  and the reverse has the Port of Djibouti. 

more notes from Djibouti HERE

TWO MODERN NOTES FROM BURUNDI

These are a couple of notes from the Republic of Burundi. Both notes . both notes are from the 2015 issue. The top one is the 1000 franc note , with cattle , a bird and a fish on the front. the reverse has the outline of Burundi over  banana trees.

The second note is the 500 franc note featuring a crocodile, fish, coffee branch and the Burundian flag on the front , with the outline of Burundi over a boat on  lake Tanganyika.

More Burundi notes HERE

NOTES SHOWCASING THE ETHNIC PEOPLES OF THE DRC

here we have 3 notes from the Congo Democratic republic , sometimes referred to as the DRC or  Congo - Kinshasa so as not to be confused with the Congo Republic (Congo - Brazziville) and was formerly called Zaire . All the above notes are from the 1997 issue.

first is the 1 centime note which has a woman harvesting coffee beans on the front and the Nyiragongo volcano erupting on the reverse.

secondly there is the 5 centime note which has a Suku hembe  Mask on the front - (the Suku people are a tribe from the SW of the country)  and a Zande Harp on the reverse ( the Zande people are a tribe from the north of the country)

Finally the 10 centime note has a Pende mask on the front and Pende dancers on the reverse. ( the pende people are from the SW of the country)

all the above have Okapi heads for the watermark

more DRC notes Here

A LOVELY BELGIAN POST WORLD WAR II NOTE

This is a lovely Belgian 50 franc note from 1948. This lovely artistic note has a agrarian theme to it with a woman and fruit on the front left and a man planting a tree on the right. whereas the reverse has  a farmer sharpening a harvesting tool on the left and a woman gathering wheat sheaves on the right. The note was issued by the Royaume de Belgique - kingdom of Belgium.

MORE BELGIAN NOTES here

EQUATORIAL AFRICAN STATES

This note is one I can tick off the "to get" list. This note is the same age as me and was issued in 1963 with a local man on the front and elephants on the reverse. it is a 100 franc note and with the code letter D means it is from Gabon.

the countries within the equatorial African states are

cameroon                        *
|central African Republic  B
Chad                              A
Congo                            C
equatorial Guinea
Gabon                            D


One thing I dont like is that the person I bought this note from, has sealed the note in a plastic wallet I will probably cut it out of the wallet (carefully)

A PUZZLE FROM GUINEA

The scan makes this note look like it is a regular size but in fact it is tiny and a bit elongated - 102mm x 45mm ( 4 in x 1 3/4 in in old money !!). Its a 2 Sylis from Guinea and it was issued in 1981.Why guinea should have King Mohammad V of Morocco on the note is something I have not found a reason for. In 1981 Guinea was a one-party Socialist state and doesn't border Morocco at all.

If I find out any info, you will be the first to know !!!


MORE GUINEAN NOTES HERE

VIETNAM VERSION FROM FRENCH INDO-CHINA

This note is a delightful note from French Indochina and was one of the last issues before france pulled out and the various countries became independent. This note was circulated around what is now, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

this note is a 1 Piastre (100 piastre = 1 dong) note and each of the notes have the same front (local flora) but the reverse had different pictures depending on which country it was issued in. This note has a temple dragon so it is from the Vietnam area. Cambodia had the royal house boat and Laos had a pagoda .

more french indochina notes HERE and HERE

 By PHGCOM - self-made, adapted from Public Domain, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4733176

MORE DONATIONS FROM PEOPLE AT THE COLLECTOR EXHIBITION

This is a 10000 Leone note from Sierra Leone from 2010. It has the dove and the country flag on the front and the cotton tree on the reverse.

more from Sirra Leone HERE, HERE and HERE

This note is from Switzerland and is the 10 franc - sometimes called fraanken - note from 2000. It has architect Le Corbusier on the front and some of his buildings on the back

more Swiss notes HERE

Here we have a 1993, 5000 shilling note from Uganda which has on the front, the terraces around Lake Bunyonyi and the reverse has the Kaawa train Ferry on lake Victoria

more notes from Uganda HERE and HERE

I didn't think I'd need more notes from Turkey as I started with loads of them but here are two I dont have . they are is fairly poor quality but its great that they are in the collection to represent their denominations.

They are the 500,000 and 50, 000 lira notes and  are marked  1970 but have different actual issue dates. Both notes have Ataturk on the front bit their reverse sides have different buildings. The 500,000 lira note is from 1993 and has an aerial view of the Canakkale martyrs monument, whereas the 50,000 lira note from 1989 has the National Parliament building in Ankara on it reverse.

more Turkish notes HERE, HERE and HERE

Everyone has been so generous giving me lots of notes to add to the collection, I really Appreciate every single one . THANK YOU ALL !!

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

ANOTHER 2 FROM BURUNDI

Here we have two notes from Burundi - one a bit cleaner than the other.

The first note is the 1000 franc note issued in 2006. The front has 3 types of cattle on it and the reverse has the "Monument de L'Unite Nationale " in Mont Vugizo, Bujumbura.

The other rather more used note is the 2000 francs from 2001 which has people harvesting their crops on the front and a lake on the reverse ( Burundi only has 3 major lakes - Tanganika, Rweru and Cohoha . so take your pick)

More from Burundi HERE and HERE

SET FROM MADAGASCAR

These notes are a part set from Madagascar. The set are all from 2004 . The 500 Ariary has a man weaving on the front and cattle on the reverse, whereas i'm unsure what is on the front of 200 Ariary note but it looks like either a hut or some kind of gate, on the reverse is some type of totems with the first one having something like a bus from the flintstones on the top. The 100 Ariary note has the travellers  tree on the front. 1 Ariary is the equivalent to 5 Madagascar Francs

More from madagascar HERE

Madagascar Lemurs - David Attenborough