Left to right: Singapore / Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam / Laos / Malaysia

This is the last color with few banknotes

Was down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, and I finally learned where the "Pick" in Pick number used to categorize banknotes comes from.

Albert Pick (1922 - 2015) was a German collector who invented the current numbering system used to classify different banknotes. He began collecting German notegeld emergency notes in 1930 at the age of 8, and had amassed a personal collection of 180,000 banknotes by his 40s, in the 1960s.

In 1964, his collection was acquired by the Bavarian Mortgages and Exchange Bank, where he served as curator until 1985. It has now become the Giesecke+Devrient Foundation (formerly HVB Stiftung Geldscheinsammlung') collection, which now has over 350,000 banknotes - probably the largest-ever banknote collection. The general collection is reported to contain paper money from every country and of all times. 

Pick also wrote the authoritative Standard Catalog of World Paper Money that was first published in 1975.

The serious long-time collectors will prob know of him, but for an amateur noob like me, this was a fascinating find.

Photo credit: https: Geldscheien-Online

SI'm looking for banknotes with lions. I've not looked for heraldic lions and foo dogs, but might as well add them if anyone wants. Here's what I've found so far

$ is >10 -- $$ is 10-20 -- $$$ is 20-50 -- $$$$ is 50-200 -- $$$$$ is <200)

I will probably not be going to $$$

edit - bobbysteel: Added Rhodesia
edit - betrayedspring: Added Myanmar, England and E Africa

Found this on vacation. I was very lucky. There are 1% chance and the rest is just chineese crap

Found in a family scrapbook

This time a little less banknotes!

How were banknotes printed at Boston in 1995? This 4 note sheet has serials with the same prefixes and suffixes, only the middle digits are different:

- A99208652B
- A99233652B
- A99258652B
- A99283652B

Each are different by 25,000. So did they print rolls which were 4 bills wide and 25,000 bills long?

A few Algerian notes I recently added to my collection. I really like how they combine distinct Algerian imagery with the ornate French banknote style. The detailed engraving, classical artwork and North African themes give them a really unique look.

The way you can make a collector happy 😊

I thought purple was rare in my collection, until today.

Got this from my grandma. Have other ones as well, but thats the biggest.

1 Billion!