Welcome to my blog for worldwide Banknotes, Coins and Numismatic related collections.............Numismatics is the study or collection of currency including paper money, coins, tokens and related objects. The discipline also includes the broader study of money and other payment media used to resolve debts and the exchange of goods........"The artwork on a country's currency usually contains historical and cultural references and is a source of national pride"

Thursday 9 October 2014

Federal Republic of Somalia

Frederal Republic of Somalia 2011, 1000 (one thousand) Shillings (SOS)

Somalia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, the Gulf of Aden to the north and Indian Ocean to the east. During the Middle Ages, several powerful Somali empires dominated the regional trade, including the Ajuran Empire, the Adal Sultanate, the Warsangali Sultanate and the Geledi Sultanate.

French Republic

French Republic 1976, 10 (ten) Franc (FRF)

France has been a major power in Europe since the Late Middle Ages, reaching the height of global prominence during the 19th and early 20th century, when it possessed the second-largest colonial empire in the world. The oldest traces of human life in what is now France date from approximately 1.8 million years ago.

Argentine Republic

Republic of Argentina, 1 (one) Peso (ARS)

Argentina, is a federal republic in southeastern South America. Its bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay. The earliest human presence in the area is dated from the Paleolithic period. The Spanish colonization began in 1512. The declaration and fight for independence (1810 - 1818) was followed by an extended civil war that lasted until 1861.

Monday 6 October 2014

Kingdom of Bahrain

Kingdom of Bahrain, 1 (one) Dinar (BHD)

Bahrain, is a small island country near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. Bahrain was one of the earliest areas to convert to Islam in 628 AD. Following a period of Arab rule, Bahrain was occupied by Portuguese in 1521 then followed by Shah Abbas I of the Safavid empire.

Commonwealth of Dominica

The Commonwealth of Dominica 1988, 5 (five) Peso (DOP)

Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles. Christoper Columbus named the island after the day of the week on which he spotted it, a Sunday (dominica, in Latin) in 1493. In the hundred years after Columbus's landing, Dominica remained isolated.

Republic of Liberia

Republic of Liberia 2003, 10 (ten) Dollars (LRD)

Liberia, is a country in West Africa bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast. Liberia is the only country in Africa founded by United States colonization while occupied by native Africans. In 1847 this new country became the Republic of Liberia.

Saturday 4 October 2014

Independent State of Samoa

Independent State of Samoa, 2 (two) Tala (WST), Plastic Note (Polymer)

Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. Contact with Europeans began in the early 18th century. Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman was the first known European to sight the Samoan islands in 1722.

Kingdom of Bhutan

Kingdom of Bhutan 2006, 1 (one) Ngultrum (BTN)

Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia located at the eastern end of the Himalayas. It is bordered to the north by China and to the south, east and west by India. Much of early Bhutanese history is unclear because most of the records were destroyed when fire ravaged the ancient capital, Punakha, in 1827.

Macau (Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China)

Macau 2005, 10 (ten) Patacas (MOP)

Macau, is one of the two Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta across from Hong Kong. A former Portuguese colony, Macau was administrated by Portugal from the mid-16th century until late 1999, when it was the last remaining European colony in Asia.

Kingdom of Sweden

Kingdom of Sweden 1978, 5 (five) Kronor (SEK)

Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Gotar and Svear tribes and contributing to the sea peoples known as the Vikings. In the 17th and early 18th century, the country expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire and grew to be one of the great powers of Europe.

Friday 3 October 2014

Republic of Suriname

Republic of Suriname 1963, 10 (ten) Gulden (SRG)

Suriname, is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west and Brazil to the South. Suriname was colonized by the English and the Dutch in the 17th century. In 1667 it was captured by the Dutch, who governed Suriname as Dutch Guiana until 1954.        

Republic of Indonesia

Republic of Indonesia 1959, 100 (one hundred) Rupiah

Indonesia is an archipelago comprising 13,466 islands with about 300 ethnic groups, each with cultural identities developed over centuries, and influenced by Indian, Arabic, Chinese, and European sources. The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region for traders from China and India since the 7th century.

State of Eritrea

State of Eritrea 1997, 1 (one) Nakfa

Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Sudan to the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. Together with Djibouti, Ethiopia, northern Somalia, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, Eritrea is considered the most likely location of the land known to the Ancient Egyptians.

Republic of Colombia

Republic Colombia 1973, 2 (two) Pesos

Colombia, is a country in the northwest of South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama, to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada, with its capital at Bogota.

Republic of Honduras

Republic Honduras 2000, 1 (one) Lempira

Honduras, is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua. Honduras was home to several important Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya, prior to being conquered by Spain in the 16th century.

Republic of Bolivia

Republic Bolivia 1962, 10 (ten) Peso

A landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west. Prior to Spanish colonization, the Andean region of Bolivia was part of the Inca Empire.

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 5 (five) Rupee

The territory that now constitutes Pakistan was previously home to several ancient cultures, including the Mehrgarh of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilization, and later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including Hindus, Indo-Greeks, Muslims, Turco-Mongols, Afghans and Sikhs