This is my top 10
Germany 92 + 11 from GDR
German Notgeld 77
Yugoslavia 53
Brazil 32
China P. R. 30
Cambodia 26
Belarus 23
Indonesia 23
Turkey 23
GB & NI 23
Quote: "BramVB"My collection by type (154 countries, 1117 types)
1) Russia 49
2) Germanies 38
3) Argentina 35
3) Brazil 35
3) Yugoslavia 35
6) Egypt 26
7) PR China 23
7) Belarus 23
9) Cambodia 22
9) Indonesia 22
@ lotus07 I also seem to have spent some time in Estonia ;-)
Sadly Estonia is not in your top 9 ;)
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Collection includes 191 Countries, 4,428 Banknotes
Top 10:
1. Germany (1654)
German East Africa (2)
German Notgeld (1,480)
German States (2)
Germany (151)
Germany, Democratic Republic (DDR) (13)
Germany, Federal Republic (6)
2. Austrian Notgeld (812)
3. Russia (404)
4. Philippines (69)
5. Yugoslavia (55)
6. United States of America (42)
7. Brazil (39) Kyrgyzstan (39)
8. Cambodia (36)
9. Ukraine (34)
10.Mongolia (33)
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Do not argue with ignorant people .. !! They will drag you down to their level, then pulverize you with experience ...
I'm just bumping this old thread since the top 10 coins seems popular & perhaps there are a few more banknote collectors in the 5 years since it was first created.
My top 10 go like this:
1) Canada (265)
2) Philippines (92)
3) UK, British dependencies/Oversea Territories (70)
I'm just bumping this old thread since the top 10 coins seems popular & perhaps there are a few more banknote collectors in the 5 years since it was first created.
Nice one, a good bump!
My top 10 are:
1. Ireland (> 2000) - never actually counted them! 2. Finland (137) 3. US (118) 4. Poland (94) - mostly notgeld 1916-1920, and current issue. 5. Scotland (82) 6. Germany (62) - mostly high denomination Weimar, really cool notes! 7. Northern Ireland (49) 8. Romania (31) 9. Kenya (28) - I sold most of my Kenyan notes sometime back, used to have around 200. 10. Canada (19)
I am actively adding notes to Ireland, Finland and Poland.
Germany 130, not counting a couple hundred notgeld China 124 Russia 123 Mexico 106 Indonesia 81 Yugoslavia 66 Philippines 62 Vietnam 62 Brazil 58 Cambodia 45
Tanzania (43) (only 1 missing!) Ghana (39) Indonesia (32) Myanmar (29) Canada (26) Cambodia (22) Guatemala (22) Uzbekistan (21) Mexico (20) England (20)
I do collect banknotes by Pick # with a focus to countries I have visited/lived in - mostly European countries and some dream vacation destination of mine. I do also personally prefer to collect notes rather recent (post WWII).
Some notes are easier to collect than others (thanks to weak currency), however I am very proud my Tanzanian and Ghanaian collections are nearly complete with a few notes missing! My next focus is to expand Myanmar/Burma collection (I absolutely love love love this country!!) and Guatemala collection (also stunning and amazing country). I am also very close to have English post war collection complete.
Most of these are countries that I collect by variant, so it checks out! Just got a bunch more for Venezuala in a swap so that will expand much sooner.
I collect whatever catches my eye, colour and designs. Picked up a Manchukuo note today. Where do the WWII Japanese notes go? Are they Japanese or part of the country they were issued for?
My banknote collection is pretty basic next to the coins, but does feature many better items. I am only really that interested in New Zealand and Pacific notes mostly and my collection reflects that. I also suspect I have not added every note I have.
1. New Zealand - 93 notes
2. Fiji - 50 notes (My favourite country at the moment)
5. United Kingdom - 14 notes (13 English and 1 Scottish pound note)
6. Samoa/Western Samoa - Samoa i sisofo - 13 notes
7. 3 way tie Australia, Papua New Guinea and Singapore - 11 notes each
8. Indonesia - 8 notes
9. Greece and Malayasia - 7 notes each
10. Nigeria and Uzbekistan - 6 notes each
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
6. Samoa/Western Samoa - Samoa i sisofo - 13 notes
I assume you know, but Samoa i sisifo means Western Samoa (or litterally Samoa in the west). I'm just saying, since Samoa is the only country you wrote the native name for. 😊
Yes - I did know and that is why I typed it as the pre 1996 notes and stamps of Samoa all say Samoa i sisofo rather than Western Samoa, as Samoan is their official language, not English which is the 2nd language.
Also to distinguish it from American Samoan, where the Samoan language is spoken, but English is the main language there.
The only other native name I know is Aotearoa for NZ, but this name is only used on Series 7 banknotes onwards (2015) and the collectible notes are Series 5 and earlier (pre 1998) which are strictly all English except for Maori bird names.
I always Fiji was Fijian for their islands and don't know other native names.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Do you get off on being so pernickety, or is an acquired skill. Seriously who gives a f##k.
I never spelled Sisofo wrong in my posts, you did - so perhaps before you insult someone - do the research. If you look at both of my posts - its spelled correctly. Mainly for 2 reasons, the notes were in front of me and that Samoan is a Polynesian langauge loosely related to Maori, so its not the hardest language for me. Perhaps you may need to get your eyes tested as a “s” can easily look like an “f” to a myopic person.
Also I have been to Samoa and have Samoan ancestry, hence why I used the Native lingo. The country's name is Samoa in Samoan and English. I bet you have not been to Samoa or any other real Pacific Island (Hawaii does not count as its just more USA and mostly Asians rather than real Hawaiians).
I only speak English and a bit of Maori, so I apologise if I don't know every f@#king language in the world. I doubt many people do, and you don't expect anyone else to use “Native” names - so why badger me over it.
As for mistakes and typos, none are deliberate, I have dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism and limited keyboard skills, but my guess is that you are just perfect in everyway. I try not to use that as an excuse, but I have never considered my posting so littered with errors, that it is unreadable and compared to some of the cellphone/street speech on the “How much is this fake Chinese 1804 dollar worth” posts. Perhaps you can go and assault them over their poor grammar. I am also a 2 finger typist, hence UN CO ORDINATED!
It would help if numista added a spell check, if spelling and grammar errors offend you so much.
I joined this thread to answer the question about how many banknotes I have, not get schoolteachered and grammar nazied by some so called expert on the usage of English and “Native” languages.
Perhaps you should go get a life and stop being such a dickhead. 😁
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Most of these are countries that I collect by variant, so it checks out! Just got a bunch more for Venezuala in a swap so that will expand much sooner.
After three lovely swaps with ts989, kevxhk, and muzz0000, here is my list:
Russia: 75 (mostly USSR)
Venezuela: 55
Indonesia: 50
Philippines: 46
Argentina: 36
Ukraine: 33
Yugoslavia: 30
Mongolia & Vietnam: 28
Lebanon & USA: 26
Honourable mention: Iran, which went from 2 notes to 23!
Do you get off on being so pernickety, or is an acquired skill. Seriously who gives a f##k.
I never spelled Sisofo wrong in my posts, you did - so perhaps before you insult someone - do the research. If you look at both of my posts - its spelled correctly. Mainly for 2 reasons, the notes were in front of me and that Samoan is a Polynesian langauge loosely related to Maori, so its not the hardest language for me. Perhaps you may need to get your eyes tested as a “s” can easily look like an “f” to a myopic person.
Also I have been to Samoa and have Samoan ancestry, hence why I used the Native lingo. The country's name is Samoa in Samoan and English. I bet you have not been to Samoa or any other real Pacific Island (Hawaii does not count as its just more USA and mostly Asians rather than real Hawaiians).
I only speak English and a bit of Maori, so I apologise if I don't know every f@#king language in the world. I doubt many people do, and you don't expect anyone else to use “Native” names - so why badger me over it.
As for mistakes and typos, none are deliberate, I have dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism and limited keyboard skills, but my guess is that you are just perfect in everyway. I try not to use that as an excuse, but I have never considered my posting so littered with errors, that it is unreadable and compared to some of the cellphone/street speech on the “How much is this fake Chinese 1804 dollar worth” posts. Perhaps you can go and assault them over their poor grammar. I am also a 2 finger typist, hence UN CO ORDINATED!
It would help if numista added a spell check, if spelling and grammar errors offend you so much.
I joined this thread to answer the question about how many banknotes I have, not get schoolteachered and grammar nazied by some so called expert on the usage of English and “Native” languages.
Perhaps you should go get a life and stop being such a dickhead. 😁
Ooooookaaaaaayyyyyy …
It was just a simple question, and a simple correction. There's no need for whatever this was. 😅
No not really, you started a fight with me and insulted me over a non existent issue.
You should really think hard, and make sure you are 100% correct with smoking guns before you decide to attack me, because I will fight back every time with fangs, claws and a iron dome defence.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
It was just a simple question, and a simple correction. There's no need for whatever this was. 😅
I did research now 🫣:
Soo, back to the topic? 😇
I have 79 notes from Samoa including specimens and replacement prefixes and did not even notice this Sisifo word is missing for the most recent issues. They must have removed this word in 1997 when they officially removed the word West from their name. I still label my Samoa as Western Samoa. It's my old habit! 😁
No not really, you started a fight with me and insulted me over a non existent issue.
You should really think hard, and make sure you are 100% correct with smoking guns before you decide to attack me, because I will fight back every time with fangs, claws and a iron dome defence.
I was simply correcting a minor spelling error. If you saw that as me “picking a fight” with you, that's totally up to you. I didn't know you could be this outraged over such a trivial thing, but you do you, mate.
I hope you can let this go. Life's too short to be worked up over random strangers on the internet.
I have 79 notes from Samoa including specimens and replacement prefixes and did not even notice this Sisifo word is missing for the most recent issues. They must have removed this word in 1997 when they officially removed the word West from their name. I still label my Samoa as Western Samoa. It's my old habit! 😁
It's the 1967-1980 series that has this text on top obverse. On the 1985 issue it only sats “Samoa i sisifo” in the small print under the title.
I have 79 notes from Samoa including specimens and replacement prefixes and did not even notice this Sisifo word is missing for the most recent issues. They must have removed this word in 1997 when they officially removed the word West from their name. I still label my Samoa as Western Samoa. It's my old habit! 😁
It's the 1967-1980 series that has this text on top obverse. On the 1985 issue it only sats “Samoa i sisifo” in the small print under the title.
The oldest Samoa notes I have are from the 1985 series (15 notes). The word Sisifo is still printed on the notes but not the way your note is showing.
That's because those notes are from 1980 when it was the Monetary Board, whereas the 1985 series used the same designs but the name changed to the Reserve Bank of Samoa.
1980 Monetary Board notes - although the Samoan translates to "Committee of Trust to the Bank of Western Samoa".
These are sellers photos of the 2 notes I have of this series which went from 1 to 20 Tala. They are scarce to rare.
The 1 Tala was axed in 1984, when a circulating 7 sided brass coin came out and the 2 Tala was replaced by a Polymer note in 1990.
These notes are the later type, Top is the common 2002, single signature type used until 2009. These went from 5 Tala to 100 Tala. Below it is the less common 1985 to 1999 type - they say Central Bank of Samoa in English and Samoan. The Bottom has in tiny lettering the words “Western Samoa” whereas the Top note just says “Samoa”.
Samoan is a harder Polynesian language to speak as its more complex than Maori, Tahitian and Hawaiian - the G is said ng as the ng so often found in our languages is printed in East Polynesian - but not in Western Polynesian languages like Samoan, Tongan and Niuean, which are older and more complex than Maori, Hawaiian, Tahitian etc. So a word like Gagana (Language) would be said ngangana.
Hope this clears up the issue.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Some opportune buying has seen some slight collection changes since last May.
Countries are Macro countries so UK includes pre 1928 notes for all UK, one scottish banknote and notes for England only
Other countries like Samoa and Fiji which were colonies and then independent or had banking authority changes are all counted as one.
The only exception would be if colonies were in “federations” that broke up at independence.
1. New Zealand - 116 notes (All 1934 to present)
2. Fiji - 56 notes
3. Australia - 45 notes
4. United Kingdom - 32 notes (2 pre 1917 UK, 1 scottish, 29 England only)
5 = Tonga - 18 notes
5 = Western Samoa/ Samoa (All permutations) - 18 notes
7. Germany - 17 notes (15 pre 1930 and 2 East German)
8 = Papua New Guinea - 11 notes
8 = Singapore - 11 notes
10 = Peoples Republic of China/Republic of China pre 1949 - 10 notes (6 Communist, 4 Republic).
I also suspect I have not been updating my notes as zealously as my coins. Despite the low numbers - a lot of my notes are not just common ones, my NZ for instance includes 9 x $100 notes of 5 different series from 1980 and nearly every signature of note from $1 - $50 issued. My British collection now contains £1 notes from the 1910s and 1920s and my Fijian section includes several $50 and a $100 note.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Germany 130, not counting a couple hundred notgeld China 124 Russia 123 Mexico 106 Indonesia 81 Yugoslavia 66 Philippines 62 Vietnam 62 Brazil 58 Cambodia 45
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Russia (133) Germany (125), not counting a couple hundred notgeld China (118) Mexico (101) Indonesia (77) Vietnam (69) Philippines (65) Yugoslavia (65) Brazil (55) Cambodia (46)
