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

The Cayman Islands note is lovely, what an idyllic scene on the reverse! And that series from Peru is very cool, should be a fun set to assemble!

My only note from 2005 is a ND Guyana 100 Dollars P-36a that should look familiar. The obverse has a very interesting map of the country showing regional commodities. I bought the note for the reverse, which features St. George's Cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana.

In March this past year, a thread on the introduction of the 2006/2009 Surinamese TEN Dollars caught my attention on the PMF:
https://www.papermoneyforum.com/pos...2520suriname

So I went to my favourite online banknote seller & picked up a Surinamese $5.00 from 2004 & enquired on Numista if the first Surinamese dollars were indeed tough to find.
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic158568.html
With such overwhelming responses, I figured I would take matters into my own hands & find some TENS & TWENTIES from 2004. (I had to ditch my 2006 & 2009 aspirations as they were non-existent or there were very circulated examples offered for a King's ransom)

Here's the 2004 TEN from Suriname (P-158a):

The designs are pretty underwhelming (esp if you compare to the big denominations of the Suriname Birds series) but they feature the Central bank on the front & yellow lapachi tree + Suriname river on the reverse.

Here's Suriname's 2004 TWENTY (or P-159a):

The front is just as plain as the $10 but with different colour schemes. The back features a red mangrove & Voltzberg (a 240M "mountain" in Suriname). Again, I didn't purchase these notes for their inspiring designs, but more for the fact that they seemed pretty tough (to scarce). The 2006 & 2009 versions were definitely scarce (esp in high grades). This may be due to the fact that the government issued these at a scale of $1.00 = 1000 Gulden (Suriname's former currency) so the $10 really equals 10,000 Gulden & the $20 equals 20,000 Gulden. I also discovered that the lower denominations $1.00 (or 1000 Gulden), the $2.50 (or 2500 Gulden) & the $5.00 (replacing the 5000 Gulden) were also tough (or uncommon).

Since these were such modern day "toughies," yet relatively inexpensive, I thought I would start a thread on "Overlooked World Notes" on this C&C forum:
https://www.coinsandcanada.com/foru...f=14&t=10050
I have always tried to pick up World notes which I suspected were tough yet did not set one back a fortune.

Next up is a 2004 Honduras 20 Lempiras P-92, which features a portrait of the country's first head of state, Jose Dionisio de la Trinidad de Herrera y Díaz del Valle. The reverse depicts the Old Presidential House in the capital city of Tegucigalpa.

Love the Kip note.

Here is a well-circulated Laos 1,000 Kip dated 2003 and a brother to the one I posted upthread at 2020. At current exchange rates, it is worth a little less than a nickel.

Great additions, everyone!


I love the reverse of that banknote! Qatar has really beautiful boat designs.

This 2003 Macau 10 Patacas (Bank of China) P-102 features the 1860s Guia Lighthouse on the obverse, part of the larger 17th century Guia Fortress. The reverse shows the Bank of China Building in Macau.

Nice pair, CB!