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(From Coin World, June 2022)

The June 3 to 5 Spink bank note sale in Hong Kong resulted in sales of 50 million Hong Kong dollars, just shy of $6.4 million in U.S. funds.

Topping all individual results, at HK $1,520,000 (U.S. $193,600), was one of the early renminbi issues of the Chinese communist government, a 1951 People’s Bank of China 5,000-yuan note. The face features a shepherd tending his flock in the foreground and a pair of incongruous but politically correct smokestacks in the rear. It was called Very Fine 35 by Paper Money Guaranty with the added Exceptional Paper Quality comment.

This note was issued in Chinese Turkistan (Xinjiang) region and has Uighur script on reverse.

This Guatemala 200 Quetzales banknote was introduced to celebrate Guatemala's rich musical heritage and features portraits of iconic national marimba composers.

FRONT: Features the portraits of three legendary Guatemalan musicians: Sebastián Hurtado, Mariano Valverde, and Germán Alcántara. It also includes a perched Resplendent Quetzal bird, the national flag, the coat of arms, and a Mayan glyph on a colour-shifting security patch.

BACK: : Showcases the musical score of "La Flor del Café" by Alcántara, Hurtado's Marimba Chromática instrument, and a background depiction of a moonlit ruin in homage to Valverde’s famous waltz "Noche de Luna entre Ruinas".

Bust of Ta-to-ka-in-yan-ka, also known as Running Antelope, a member of the

Oncpapa tribe of Sioux Indians. This is the only issue of U.S. paper money for

which a Native American was selected as the central feature.

(November 2 2015 article in The Hutchinson News)

A relatively rare $10 bank note issued more than 100 years ago by the First National Bank of Hutchinson has turned up on eBay. The asking price: $440.

Notes issued within a specific charter period all looked the same, except the bank’s name, town, and officers’ signatures on the face of the note. The 1904 issue had a blue seal and a “plain back.” Earlier issues had red seals and some, the issue dates on the back. The notes came in sheets worth $50. They contained three $10s and a $20. The bank had wood block stamps to add the signatures, rather than hand-signing them, though the bills were hand-cut from the sheets at the bank. If you got a loan from First National in Hutchinson, they gave you $10 notes. It’s just like a check issue by the bank today.

Track and Price, a company that tracks currency as it’s taken out of circulation by the U.S. Treasury, shows there are 43 bills issued by The First National Bank of Hutchinson presumably still in circulation. A number of those are in a display in the vault at First National and others are in collectors’ hands. What is particularly unusual about the First National Bank of Hutchinson notes, however, is that the bank is still in existence. Most of the old banks don’t exist anymore.

And, by the way, the seller in Tampa, Fla., has dropped the current price after originally asking $550.

By the late 1990s, security printing firms were under siege by counterfeiters with advanced and affordable digital reproduction devices. It was a new counterfeiting climate, demanding new tools. So, the Bank of Canada adopted a new design strategy in 2002, and the Canadian Journey series became the first Canadian notes designed wholly on computers. It was also the first series to involve Canadian citizens in the choice of note themes. The Bank convened many focus groups to decide what values or achievements most reflected the Canadian experience. And these elements, from the arts to winter fun to women’s suffrage, adorned the backs of the notes. At the time, it was considered to be the most Canadian note series.

The Series A banknotes were the first banknotes created by and for the Irish Free State in 1928 and continued to be issued when the Free State became the Republic of Ireland. They are considered to "count amongst the most iconic and beautiful of all modern banknotes." The series is known as "The Lady Lavery Series", from the prominent portrait on the front of the notes. The notes were issued from 1928 to 1977 until they were gradually replaced by Series B banknotes beginning in 1976.

FRONT: Each note has a portrait of Lady Lavery, wife of the artist Sir John Lavery, who was commissioned to design this feature. The original oil on canvas painting of Lady Lavery, titled Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan (1927), is displayed at the National Gallery of Ireland on loan from the Central Bank of Ireland.

BACK: The reverse of each denomination features the head of a "River God" representing one of the rivers of Ireland taken from a keystone on the Custom House in Dublin sculpted by Edward Smyth. Rivers in both the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland were chosen. For the 100 Pounds the River God of the River Erne was used. That river is located in the northwest of the island of Ireland and is the second-longest river in Ulster, flowing through Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and forming part of their border.

FRONT right: Holy Trinity Cathedral, also known in Amharic as Kidist Selassie, is the highest ranking Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was initially built in 1931 under Emperor Haile Selassie before being disrupted by Italian invasion. It was completed in 1942 and built to commemorate the Ethiopian victory over Italian occupation.

FRONT left: Haile Selassie was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He is widely considered to be a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history. Selassie, seeking to modernise Ethiopia, introduced political and social reforms including the 1931 constitution and the abolition of slavery in 1942. He led the empire during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, and after its defeat was exiled to the United Kingdom.

BACK: The Lion of Judah served as the hereditary title of the Solomonic Ethiopian emperors and nobles including Haile Selassie and was depicted on the flag of Ethiopia from 1897 to 1974. Due to its association with Haile Selassie, it continues to be an important symbol among members of the Rastafari movement.

The Faeroe Islands are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the Hebrides and Shetland isles of Scotland, the islands have a population of 54,870 as of 2025. The terrain is rugged, dominated by fjords and cliffs with sparse vegetation and few trees. As a result of their proximity to the Arctic Circle, the islands experience perpetual civil twilight during summer nights and very short winter days; nevertheless, they experience a subpolar oceanic climate and mild temperatures year-round due to the Gulf Stream. The capital, Tórshavn, receives the fewest recorded hours of sunshine of any city in the world at only 840 per year.

For some time, Singapore held the world record for the largest value of a single banknote. Until recently, you would have to fly out of Singapore with three of them – worth S$30,000 – before triggering currency reporting requirements.

FRONT: President Encik Yusov bin Ishak.

BACK: Technology, computer chip research lab.

2022 World Cup Champions, Argentina and Lionel Messi took the lead 1-0 against Algeria

Norway beats Iraq 4-1 at the World Cup

This is one of the greatest treasures in American numismatics. Just four examples of the 1862 and 1863-dated $1000 Legal Tender Notes are known to collectors, with only two in private hands, this being the finest graded.
Most such high-denomination notes were used in bank-to-bank transfers and other large exchanges, not carried around by the public. There were some exceptions, including one described in an account of a passenger who perished when the S.S. Brother Jonathan hit a rock and sank off Crescent City, California, on July 30, 1865. The body of a female passenger was found, with "one $1,000 Legal Tender Note; five $20 do.; seven $10 do.; two $100 do.; five $50 do.; one $5 National currency note on the National Bank of Poughkeepsie, New York-in all $1,625.…" Details can be found in the book, The Treasure Ship S.S. Brother Jonathan, 1999.

Sorry but Elon Musk is not the only trillionnaire out there!

2026 World Cup Saudi Arabia leads 1-0 vs Uruguay....

UNBELIEVABLE!!! Cape Verde finished their first World Cup ever with a 0-0 tie match against... SPAIN, one of the strongest team in the competition. Congrats.

Curacao just scored their first goal ever in the World Cup, against Germany.... in a 1-7 defeat.

The Qatar Central Bank introduced a commemorative bank note for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The polymer note with the unusual but symbolically logical face value of 22 riyals ($6.04) is being sold for 75 riyals at national local banks and exchange houses.

The World Cup trophy and Qatar 2022 logo are displayed on each side, one of which has a picture of Lusail Stadium, with Al Bayt Stadium on the other. The two stadiums are the venues for the opening and the final World Cup match. One side is printed in English, the other in Arabic. Also found in the background of the note is the Qatar National emblem, the Doha skyline, a dhow and Zubara fort.

The event is not without controversy. The gulf nation’s intense heat meant that the matches had to be moved from the traditional summer time period to the winter. Charges of bribery and corruption are leveled at Qatari and FIFA officials involved in securing the rights to host the games. Foreign workers had to be brought in to work on the many construction projects related to the event, which led to accusations of ill treatment, slavery, and death. There are also concerns about the treatment of LGBT people, since homosexuality is illegal in Qatar. A number of FIFA officials have now said it was an error to give Qatar hosting rights.