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1978 Portuguese 100 escudos:   This note shows Camilo Castelo Branco on the front. He was the illegitimate son of a Portuguese aristocrat, born in 1825, who became one of the country's best-known playwrights. The reverse shows a historic view of the city of Oporto. |
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1978 Greece 50 Drachmai:   This note shows Poseidon, the ancient Greek God of the Sea, on the front. The reverse depicts an incident from the Greek War of Independence in 1822: two sailing ships are seen off the coast near the fortress of Palamidi, while Greek heroine Laskarina Bouboulina orders her cannons to be fired. Laskarina Bouboulina, who loved ships and sailing from her childhood, served in the Greek Navy and attained the rank of Admiral. |
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the notable 17th-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton, ..was also Master of The Royal Mint during the reign of King Charles II, and oversaw the changeover from hammered to milled coinage: Whenever I see this £1 note I think of Philip Kerr's book called Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/k/...k-matter.htm This was definitely the fastest Kerr novel I read & the only thing that might be a bit misleading is the title (it's not really about Newton's private life). Instead it gives a fascinating look into what the Tower mint must have been like & a slight glimpse of Newton's genius. If you have ever wondered why the quality of English coins look so dramatically superior after Newton took over, this book is for you. For 1978 I turn to Africa: First up, Kenya P-17 20 Shillings https://en.numista.com/206966Next is the last of the Rhodesia P-36b $5.00 series:   https://en.numista.com/237074Edited by walk2dwater
01/22/2026 07:38 am
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Excellent examples!  |
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Beautiful banknotes, everyone! I love the reverse scenes on your European notes, NumisRob, and the fantastic lions on your notes, walk2dwater! This 1978 Israel 1 Sheqel P-43 has a portrait of Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885) on the obverse. The reverse depicts Jaffa Gate with the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem.   |
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This 1978 Israel 1 Sheqel P-43 has a portrait of Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885) on the obverse. The reverse depicts Jaffa Gate with the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem. Very nice! |
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This 1978 Portugal 20 Escudos P-176b(3) depicts a portrait of Admiral Gago Coutinho on the obverse. The reverse, per Numista, has "an engraving depicting the departure of the Lisbon - Rio de Janeiro flight, where we can see the hydroplane used for the crossing and, in the background, the Belem Tower."   |
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Nice note, CollegeBarbers! I have one of those in much worse condition, received in change in Portugal in 1984. It's the only time I remember getting a banknote in change from a coin: I went to a post office to get a 3$50 stamp to make up the right amount to send a postcard to the UK, tendered a 25$00 coin and got a 20$00 note, a 1$00 coin and a 0$50 coin in change! Starting 1977 with a Ten Cedi note from Ghana:   The man smoking a pipe on the front of this note appears to be a generic portrayal of a typical Ghanaian rather than the portrait of an actual person. The reverse shows Akosombo Dam on Lake Volta. The dam was built in the early 1960s to generate hydro-electric power, and created Lake Volta, which is one of the world's largest artificial lakes. Edited by NumisRob
01/23/2026 07:46 am
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Nice note, CollegeBarbers! I have one of those in much worse condition, received in change in Portugal in 1984. It's the only time I remember getting a banknote in change from a coin Wow, that is not an experience I've ever had! At some places now I'm lucky to get coins in exchange for banknotes.  That's a beautiful Ghana note! They have a lot of lovely early designs. My only example today is a ND (1977) Solomon Islands 2 Dollars P-5a. It's a recent find digging through boxes of notes at a LCS. The obverse has QEII, while the reverse has the standard fishing scene.   |
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That's a beautiful Ghana note! They have a lot of lovely early designs.
My only example today is a ND (1977) Solomon Islands 2 Dollars P-5a  (lovely note Rob!) & continuing the Solomon theme for 1977: First up is this Solomon Islands $5 P-6a  I like the longboats & hut portrayed on the back. I like the notes from the Solomon Islands so much that I have 12 notes! https://en.numista.com/277755My 2nd example is from New Zealand, a $20 P-167d  https://en.numista.com/210519 The bird is the New Zealand pigeon. |
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Mighty fine examples! |
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Lovely notes, walk2dwater and CollegeBarbers! I remember having an example of the New Zealand note when I visited that country for the first time, but $20 was a lot of money then and I couldn't afford to save it! 1976... The hot summer of 1976, and a teenage Rob is on a beach in Brittany talking to a beautiful French girl called Marie-Caroline, and our first date is on August 5th. Sadly, she married another guy, but the Banque de France ensured that August 5, 1976 would be permanently remembered, as there was an issue of 10-franc notes with that date:   Showing composer Hector Berlioz, this continued the tradition of French postwar banknotes in having a mirror image of the portrait on the reverse. This note was intended to replace the larger 10F note depicting Voltaire, but in the end the alumimium-bronze 10-franc coin largely took over, and both types of 10F note remained in circulation, though increasingly rare, until they were demonetised in 1986. Edited by NumisRob
01/24/2026 05:00 am
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Lovely notes, walk2dwater and CollegeBarbers! -Thanks @jbuck & @NumisRob. I love your 1976 10 Francs & your personal backstory. It took me another 2 years for me to have similar romantic moments on a beach at a small lake north of Montreal, Quebec. By 1978, I had been collecting Canadian banknotes for 4 years (but no World examples)! I had just entered high school & was lucky enough to be accepted to participate on a Quebec-Ontario (French/English) exchange (brushing up on "ma Francaise!") My first 1976 examples is from Singapore, a $10 P-11b:  https://en.numista.com/207264 My second example is from the tiny island of St Helena a £5 & P-7a (incorrect spelling of the motto & low serial #):   https://en.numista.com/220257 |
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Two more nice notes, walk2dwater! I was on St Helena last month and £5 notes of that same basic design are still in circulation, although new polymer ones with a portrait of King Charles III are due to replace them this year. I think the current notes have been reduced in size since 1976. All the ones I saw were in quite heavily circulated condition. My second note from 1976 is a 5 Lek from Albania, with a transportation theme:   |
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Hey there folks. I know that this thread resides in the *world* paper money and banknote subforum, but I'm not seeing any rules explicitly stating that US banknotes aren't allowed. I'm going to post this $2 note from 1976 and I hope that if this is frowned upon then you will gently correct me. If not, then I'll have some additional US banknotes to post in a couple weeks. Thx for clarifying for me!   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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