How Far Back Can We Go? - With Banknotes! Third Edition

Lovely banknotes, everyone! Glad to see we're getting more members participating!


Yes, absolutely. As long as there is a verifiable way to date a ND note, it will count. I usually link to Numista since I don't have any graded notes.

My contribution for today joins the troupe from Indonesia, a 1964 5 Sen P-91r. This is a replacement note, so not quite as common as the regular issue. I also got it in a lot of world banknotes years ago, along with a 1 Sen.

Great notes everyone, especially the two beauties from SchwarzerEinser!

Here are two more 1964 'Monopoly Money' notes from Indonesia.- 25 and 50 sen. Does the X prefix on the 50-sen designate a replacement?

1963...

A rest from Indonesia today with a couple of British notes.
This was a new design for 1963 and was the first Bank of England £5 note to have the monarch's portrait. The first issues were signed by the Chief Cashier Jasper Quintus Hollom. The note was designed by Reynolds Stone, whose own young daughter was the model for Britannia on the reverse:



My second note for 1963 is a One Pound note from Jersey in the Channel Islands, with a young Queen Elizabeth II on the front and Mont Orgueil Castle on the back.

Great notes! I'm a big fan of French notes and those showing QEII.

My note for today:
Finland P# 100a - 10 Markkaa - 1963 (PMG 67 EPQ)

Fantastic notes today! Love the castle vignette on the Jersey note.

Today I have a ND (1963) Paraguay 50 Guaranies P-197b. The obverse has a portrait of Mariscal Jose F. Estigarribia, while the reverse has a great rural bridge scene.

Nice notes CollegeBarbers and SchwarzerEinser! I like the bridge on the Paraguayan 50 Guaranis!
1962 - and a French 5-franc note from the same series as Spence's, but in slightly better condition. The portrait is the French author Victor Hugo, best known today for his masterpiece 'Les Miserables'.


The large domed building behind Hugo on the front of the note is the Pantheon, where Hugo (and many other notable French people) are buried. The reverse shows the Place des Vosges in Paris, where Hugo had an apartment. The note has the value in 'New Francs' (nouveaux francs): France introduced the New Franc, worth 100 old francs, in 1960, and for a few years coins and notes bearing values in both old and new francs were in circulation together.

@walk2dwater Speaking of French-designed banknotes - here's my 1962 example. (PCGS labels it ND (1962).)
I'll have to get it reholdered; nearly my whole collection is in PMG holders. It's a slippery slope.

Cameroon P# 11 - 500 Francs - ND (1962) (PCGS 67 PPQ)

Tremendous banknotes, everyone! Welcome back, walk2dwater! Hope you enjoyed your vacation.

My contribution was an unexpected find at my LCS last month: a 1962 50 Pesos Bolivianos P-162a(11). This is the only note in my collection that has mismatched serial numbers.