This week's E-Sylum has a review for a book which looks interesting. Supernote by Jim Davidson: https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n17.html#article5
The story of a multi-year investigation into the "Supernote" - a counterfeit $100 bill so undetectable, it threatened to destroy the global economy.
#Numismatics #Banknotes #Money #Bibliophone #Books @numismatics #AmReading (or I will be when I get a copy)
Most #coin #collectors (should) know about Numista: https://en.numista.com/ - it is a fantastic #resource to look up information on #coins, #exonumia (#tokens, #medallions, etc), #banknotes and more. Now they have added a #literature section for #Bibliophile!
I do enjoy birds on coins: https://coinofnote.com/tag/birds/
So here's an article from this week's E-Sylum with a book I'll be looking into: "Endangered parrots of the world, on stamps, coins and banknotes" by Sushil Kumar Agrawal
https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n02.html#article5
#numismatics #philately #coins #banknotes #birds #parrots #book @numismatics @philately cc: @art_history_animalia (you might be interested in this one too!)
Resharing this #dataviz project from The Pudding from two years ago on its second anniversary, accompanied by an article from one of its authors.
"During the design phase, we learned there were legal constraints to having pictures of banknotes on our site."
https://nightingaledvs.com/interactive-data-diaries-banknotes/
Going off tangent: British money still is weird
Ulster Bank 50 pounds noteSometimes Britain is really weird. I was writing a post about money in Dungeons and Dragons when I remembered something odd we encountered when visiting Northern Ireland back in the 2000s: Northern Irish Bank notes.
No, not just British paper money, actual bank notes issued by private banks in the constituent part of the United Kingdom that is Northern Ireland. Scottish ones as well.
It turns out they aren’t actually legal tender anywhere in Britain (because legal definitions can be weird), but you can just pay with them in shops. It’s a bit like the Euro gonna-catch-them-all hunt for different coins, as multiple banks have the right to issue currency and do.
Somehow nobody ever had mentioned the existence of seperate paper money in Scotland and Northern Ireland to any of us. And to be fair, it’s not supposed to be seperate. They are equivalent to the Pound Sterling, but better don’t try to pay with them in England. People seem to get really pissy about that when you try. They are supposed to take them, but some places just won’t. (They can’t give them out as change)
Bank of Scotland 20 pounds noteConversely Scotland and Northern Ireland generally accept each other’s notes.
This is stuff that nobody ever talks about somehow, a regional quirk that flies under the radar most of the times.
Danske Bank 20 poundsBy the way, one of the banks that can issue money in Northern Ireland is Danske Bank, a Danish bank based in Copenhagen. It seems they bought Northern Bank a while ago and retained their right to issue bank notes.
Another one is Bank of Ireland, which is based in Dublin. So two institutions from the EU can issue money in UK. Isn’t that interesting?
And don’t even get me started on the Manx pound, which is issued by the government of the Isle of Man (a crown dependency) and which you might get as change in Belfast. Unlike the money from the other two this one is not supposed to be interchangeable with the British pound. The Isle of Man is as Wikipedia puts it “in a one-sided de facto currency union” with the UK, meaning the pound sterling is legal tender on the island and backing its own notes with it. Some people might accept them, others don’t.
(To be fair it appears banks and post offices anywhere in Britain take them)
The Wikipedia article for the Manx Pound still talks about what will happen when the UK finally adopts the Euro. I think nobody updated this since 2006.
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On passing counterfeit notes (1826) - a case in which the convicted party ultimately claimed to have purchased them and the box in which they were concealed in "specie and #Quebec bills" from "a man named Page, in Dunham, Lower Canada [Quebec]." We know that cross-border counterfeiting networks existed, though we know relatively little in terms of specifics. #money #history #histodons #CdnHist #HistQC #numismatics #banknotes @histodons
Source: The Quebec Mercury, February 7, 1826
3rd place! Fab looking note that. Don't think I've ever seen one in person though.
Phillipines 1,000 peso was 1st with the Ulster Bank £50 in 2nd. Both are unpictured.
#Introduction Hi everyone, I'm a #numismatist. I enjoy collecting & learning about #coins, #exonumia (#tokens, #medallions, etc), & #banknotes. I've also got into #PNC & #PMC collecting lately (Postal #Numismatic Covers & Postal Medallic Covers, like a first day cover stamp release envelope, but with a coin or medallion as well). I try to post photos & information about interesting pieces regularly, especially #MedalMonday, #TokenTuesday & #SaturdayNightCoinShow, but not only. I'm in #Australia
