I work at a bank. One day, a customer came in with money that nobody recognized, hoping to exchange it for U.S. dollars. My manager was just about to turn the customer away, when I and my money-nerd tendencies stepped in and immediately recognized what she had - Northern Irish pound sterling notes. See, the UK doesn't have a single paper currency. While England and Wales use Bank of England notes, in Scotland and Northern Ireland, a handful of private banks issue their own banknotes for those countries. That's why nobody (but me!) knew what those notes were; they didn't look like the British pounds we were used to seeing because they weren't Bank of England notes. Luckily, since I knew what they were, we were able to make the exchange for the customer.
I used to work at a New Zealand bank and we only accepted Bank of England notes and Scottish bank notes. We would on sell Bank of England notes to other customers but had to return the Scottish notes back to our head office. We unfortunately didn't accept Northern Irish notes.
if you work in bank, a true bank, and no-one has any clue about northern island or scottish money you amust be in a bad bank. ive worked in retail and had posters about both, how do banks NOT know?? especially as they are legal tender...???
Same situation in Hong Kong and Macau where private banks are the ones printing/issuing paper currency with the exception of the 10 Hong Kong dollar bill where printed by three private banks with some designs being similar or different with each other: HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China.
@@DTWExtreme I like that we here in Sweden voted for the euro and now we make it look like we don't meet the criteria of getting the euro as a currency every year, or something like that.
Swaziland, where married women can't independently sign contracts or manage property, has more women on its money that the United States. The world is so weird.
Again another case of people not knowing what they are talking about. These are not the kings wives, this is the reed dance procession held each year where 'potential' wives are sorted out for the King.
@@greatwolf5372 Thats a really nice argument and underlines how feminists in the Western world are really making a big fuss over inconsequenstial shit while not appreciating how bad other woman have it in the world
@@timpyrules It's not a good argument at all, it's idiotic. The OP made no argument about it being better to have that many women on money. It was just a weird observation. Anti-feminists are so sensitive and perceive everything as an attack.
I suddenly feel like there could easily be a whole channel dedicated to money. Not like an Economics channel -- just literally the paper banknotes and metal coins. Who the people are, what the stories are behind the designs, how they are manufactured in different places, etc.
It is piastres in Egypt not shillings, strange that even El Ghoul doesn't even know that. 5 piastres used to be enough for a small bowl of kosheri or bus ride.
Surprisingly, many of the north Korean banknotes don't have pictures of the Kim's, and they only have pictures of Kim IL Sung, not the current dictator
In the UK, both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own designs seperate from the designs used by the Bank of England. It causes issues for people travelling to England, particularly the south, from these areas. One thing I love about Northern Irish money is that over there they've allowed Danske Bank (which is a Danish bank) to print pounds, meaning the UK technically allows a foreign bank to print its money.
J.J. McCullough heavens no half of them would kick off at that. Some of them just have depictions of "a typical northern Irish person". There's one with George Best too, and then a few with various "sirs" on. None have the Queen.
Depends on the bank printing them. Ulster Bank uses images of local landmarks like the Giant's Causeway, Queens University and even (yes, playing to stereotypes) Bushmill's Whiskey distillery. There is as Ian R Close said the George Best pounds which are seen as a sort of collectors note but it's rare to get a note in NI which isn't a Ulster Bank note.
Interesting fact, the 'plastic' (polymer) bank notes were originally developed in Australia. Ours seem to be much more durable though as you can't tear them even when scrunching them up as JJ did with the Canadian note.
I'm doing a massive road trip Smoke report: Alberta : meh, not bad Washington : quite a lot but not very bad BC : I LITTERALLY CANT EVEN GO OUTSIDE WTF
Being myself a numismatist it's quite hard to choose amongst all the interesting things I can say about my own collection! But here are a few nice ones: - My smallest bill (7.3 x 3.2 cm) is Chinese and dates from 1975. All that is written in the corner is "0.1" without any denomination: that's because it was used for food rationing and thus was literally worth 0.1 kg of rice! - Another small bill (8.9 x 4.1 cm) is a Hong Kong banknote from 1961 only worth... 1 cent. It's only printed on one side, just as if it was from a Monopoly board game! - I have a second note printed on one side: 50,000,000 German marks from 1923, from that famous period of inflation when money became worthless. - My biggest bill is also German: it's a 1000 mark from 1910 and is 18.7 x 10.9 cm... - The oldest is one of the first European banknotes: 15 French sols from 1792! - Finally a funny design and I'll stop there: I've got 1 Indian rupee banknote from 1980... depicting a 1 rupee coin from 1980. Should have thought about that!
My favourite bill is the old 100 South Korean hwan note issued in 1962. It was in circulation for only a short amount of time. It has a mother and her son holding a bankbook. I like the fact that it has a normal everyday person depicted on the banknote. Additionally, a Korean newspaper a few years back tracked down the mother and son. Unfortunately, the bill was only in circulatiom for a few months.
2:18 Israel also had vertical portraits on all second series bills, though the currently used third series and the previous first series were horizontal
You'll find Sri Lankan banknotes also have vertical bank notes. But i guess we only have the note vertical on one side. For some reason the other side is horizontal on all the notes.
When I saw the vertical Switzerland bills it remembered me that also Mexico made a vertical bill to commemorate the 200 years independence of the country in 200 mexican pesos bill.
In Sweden, we have death on our 200kr bill. The main theme is the famous director Ingemar Bergman, and in the background you can see the character "the death" sitting on a rock!
J.J, I hope you have success in collecting more foreign money and I hope when you have assembled an ever bigger collection, that you showcase it. I also love your channel :D
I actually have a North Korean 50 Won note. My dad is a chef, and one of his customers was a German student doing ecology work in the US. He liked the food, and told the waiter he had a tip for the chef. He then handed him a North Korean note and the waiter gave it to my dad, and he gave it to me.
Hey JJ. Love the videos. Could you do a short one on the Canadian penny rounding? I heard Canada got rid of the penny a few years back and I think the US should do the same.
Kristen Flagstad (who was an opera singer featured on the 100NOK bill) was replaced with a viking ship this year. And the 200kr bill in Norway used to feature the physicist Kristian Birkeland until quite recently. But this year he was replaced with a cod.
I don't remember when exactly I got it, but while checking out a customer at work she had some coins on the counter and one of them was a 5 pesewa coin from Ghana. She didn't know how she got it either, so she let me have it. One of my favorite collectibles.
We've got plastic £5 notes in Britain now, they're bringing in plastic £10 ones soon as well; also on our £20 notes we have a picture of the queen on one side and a guy called Adam Smith on the other and in my 19 years of life I've never met one person who knows who Adam Smith is or why he's on our money
So far...You are the best I've seen yet. When I show my collection, I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed what you have shown. Best to you and yours.
You can go back even further than that with Queen Elizabeth II; her first appearance on currency was in 1935 in Canada on a $20 note, when she was just a 9 year old princess and her grandfather George V was king. (I sadly do not have this bill in my collection as it's quite expensive even in well circulated condition, but I'm sure you can find an image of it online easily enough.)
J.J. McCullough hey jj would you like some bills from the republic of somaliland an internationally unrecognised self declared state in the Horn of Africa btw love the channel
Enjoyed your video! I am completing a unit on the "value" of money with my middle schoolers and am going to include your vid. I think the kids will enjoy learning some random facts about moolah. Thanks =) Tom
@@SomeBritishGal1 Yes, they do. I, too, was surprised the first time I learned. I just thought they'd trade in US dollars like Ecuador or Zimbabwe do. But then again, to them USA is the devil lol. IDK maybe euros
When I was in Nicaragua my co-volunteers and I had this thing about "visiting the money" you see, the then current series had concrete locations on each bill. The C$10 (yes that is the way Nicaraguans abbreviate their currency) had El Castillo on it, the C$20 had the Caribbean Coast, the C$50 had Canyon de Somoto, the C$100 had a monument to Ruben Darío (to be found in León) the C$200 had Ometepe and the C$500 had the birth house of Augusto C Sandino. This series has since been replaced, but the new series seems to go with the "tourism" motive, too. Funny thing about Nicaraguan money back then was that the tener and the twenty were always polymer, the fifty most of the time, the hundred never, the two hundred always and the five hundred never...
I remember when they first introduced the Kazakhstani tenge banknotes when I grew up there they went from 1 to 100 and had portraits of notable figures in Kazakh history, with the 1 tenge note having the one with the most dubious links to Kazakhstan - the mediæval philosopher Al-Farabi (he was born long before the Kazakhs were defined as an ethnic group, and his actual place of birth and cultural background are disputed). Then, as inflation kicked in, they had to start adding bigger and bigger banknotes, eventually stopping at 10,000, and instead of coming up with new people to put on them they'd just reuse the Al-Farabi portrait. Also, in the late nineties they introduced coins going up to 100 tenge, which gradually displaced the smaller banknotes, meaning that in the early 2000s the only face you'd see on the banknotes actually in use was Al-Farabi. When I'd show the tenge banknotes abroad people would ask "Is this what your dictator looks like?" :D Apparently in 2006, shortly after my family left Kazakhstan they introduced a whole new series of banknotes, which dispensed with human faces entirely... although they do all feature President Nazarbayev's handprint.
Hello JJ. It is not a group of angry gun holding guys on the Iranian money, they are volunteers who helped liberate the port of Khorramshahr after Iraq invaded it. It is an important event in the country’s history and even people who don’t like the current regime cherish Khorramshahr liberation since it was done with great sacrifices and relatively empty hands versus the Iraqi army which was backed by every superpower back then.
The new Australian $5 bill is so beautiful! It only came out last year and yes..... Queen Elizabeth is on there too 😂 I can happily mail you one if you like?
I spoke with some friends about this just yesterday! It is a good thing to collect money from another countries, it makes you think with an open minded perspective about the power governments give to this pieces of paper/plastic (love the swis way!)
Most countries has only one central bank that issues and prints money, but Hong Kong has 3 commercial banks that also issues and prints money. They slightly differ in design and all are concurrently legal tender.
Switzerland has actually introduced new 10, 20 and 50 franc bills. So the 10 and 20 franc bills you show in the video are outdated. Ironically, they have replaced people (Le Corbusier and Arthur Honegger) with Swiss things (the Gotthard Base Tunnel and the Locarno Film Festival). The weirdest bank notes I've ever paid with were the Uzbek Som. They depict buildings in the capital Tashkent, but only come in the denominations of 1000, 2000 and 5000 Som. Problem is: 2000 Som are the equivalent to 1 USD. So, every time you pay the bill at a restaurant, you end up leaving a whole pile of money on the table and the waiter will count the money for about two minutes!
The CHF1000 bill has also been replaced, I hear it was made a bit smaller allowing an extra stack to fit in a standard bank safe deposit box. No doubt that gives a clue as to the main use of a Swiss thousand frank bill
Venezuelan money is also vertical like Switzerland's. It's also VERY colorful and features a really diverse group of historical people on the front of each bill and an animal that is native to the country on the back of each bill.
Are there any countries who also have nicknames for almost all their money? Because The Dutch gulden used to have quite some. Too bad we don't have nicknames for the euro (at least not in the Netherlands). Although some people still say dubbeltje and stuiver. Here is a list of the Gulden nicknames. 1 cent - Spie 5 cents - Stuiver 10 cents - Dubbeltje (still used with euros) 25 cents - Kwartje 1 Gulden - Piek 1,5 Gulden - Daalder 2,5 Gulden - Rijksdaalder 5 Gulden - Bas 10 Gulden - Joetje 25 Gulden - Geeltje 50 Gulden - Zonnebloem 100 Gulden - Meier 250 Gulden - Vuurtoren 1000 Gulden - Rooie rug Let me know if your country has or had them. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Very interresting, I didn't know it about your country, but the USA has also some nicknames,: 1 cent: cent, penny 5 cent: nickel 10 cent: dime 25 cent: quater
Onkel Jajus Bahn there are also people that call American money by the President's or Statesmen printed on them. Example Benjamin's for hundreds and some folks say Lincoln's for pennies and 5 dollar bills.
Here's something you _might_ enjoy: I have no idea if you care about cons, but euro coins have different tails depending on the country or event they were issued for. There's a lot of them, too.
Nice video, now I know I’m not the only one crazy about foreign paper money, I started collecting 32 years ago and now I’m very proud of my collection I have paper money from every single country in the world 😃😃😃
The coins of our old money, before we changed to the Euro, the 'Schilling' were really strange. On the backyard you had an real cool looking design with the words: 'Republik Österreich', which translates to 'Republic of Austria'.
Awesome! A fellow numismatist as well as a fellow vexillologist!!! Always like knowing others find this stuff fascinating and collect, too. My collection started when I was 10 with a Canadian quarter given to me by a great aunt after she visited. From there I had friends and family who gave me other coins and bills as well as penpals, too. A teacher, who went to write down languages in central Africa, even gave me some bills from the Belgian Congo...so it combined history with my fascination with numismatics. All of these folks also helped with vexillology, too. :-)
I also collect money from around the world. One fact about the money from Brazil, where I live, is that our money is colourful and have animals on it. The R$2 bill has sea turtles, R$5 has a heron, R$10 has a macaw, R$20 has a monkey, R$50 has a jaguar, R$100 has fish and R$200 has a wolf. We also used to have R$1 bills with hummingbirds.
Watching you tear that $20 bill lowkey broke my heart
Me too
same you should of gave it to me
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i feel the same way, canadian money looks so cool
@@randommemesweekly4417 It is very colorful 😁👍
I work at a bank. One day, a customer came in with money that nobody recognized, hoping to exchange it for U.S. dollars. My manager was just about to turn the customer away, when I and my money-nerd tendencies stepped in and immediately recognized what she had - Northern Irish pound sterling notes.
See, the UK doesn't have a single paper currency. While England and Wales use Bank of England notes, in Scotland and Northern Ireland, a handful of private banks issue their own banknotes for those countries. That's why nobody (but me!) knew what those notes were; they didn't look like the British pounds we were used to seeing because they weren't Bank of England notes. Luckily, since I knew what they were, we were able to make the exchange for the customer.
Wild!
I used to work at a New Zealand bank and we only accepted Bank of England notes and Scottish bank notes. We would on sell Bank of England notes to other customers but had to return the Scottish notes back to our head office. We unfortunately didn't accept Northern Irish notes.
it seems weird to me that other private banks make money other than just the main Gov.
if you work in bank, a true bank, and no-one has any clue about northern island or scottish money you amust be in a bad bank. ive worked in retail and had posters about both, how do banks NOT know?? especially as they are legal tender...???
Same situation in Hong Kong and Macau where private banks are the ones printing/issuing paper currency with the exception of the 10 Hong Kong dollar bill where printed by three private banks with some designs being similar or different with each other: HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China.
When I was at KFC, the employee accidentally gave me a euro cent...I live in Australia...
Yea i lived in australia and has received poundsterling or singapore dollar as change too.
LOL I was in Macau and I got my change in RMB, HKD, and Macau Dollar, I paid with HKD
Someone tried to give me japenese yen and i live in the us
@@johndaly2816 wait you should keep the pound sterling because you can exchange that for more how much was it
@@TurtleRailTSR so you got chinese yuan and hong kong daller
CORRECTION: Yes, the Danish bill was very old but we didn't make the switch to the €'s. We just keep getting new designs of our own.
That's cool I like countries keeping there own money so sad that those weird Dutch notes are dead now
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@@DTWExtreme I like that we here in Sweden voted for the euro and now we make it look like we don't meet the criteria of getting the euro as a currency every year, or something like that.
@@DTWExtreme I wish I had a few Dag Hammarskjöld banknotes. One to collect, the others for other things.
Denmark has Kroner
Zimbabwe had $1-$100 Trillion banknotes when they hit hyper inflation in 2007-2008.
Ghawk Yeah I have 50 Million Z$
°_°
A trillion?!
Very Youthful
Comfortable Middle Age
Cuddly Grandmother
Brink Of Death
IM DEAD 😂😂😂😂😂😂
And finally, her lizard form
@@nakselion then a f### ghost
Swaziland, where married women can't independently sign contracts or manage property, has more women on its money that the United States. The world is so weird.
Again another case of people not knowing what they are talking about. These are not the kings wives, this is the reed dance procession held each year where 'potential' wives are sorted out for the King.
Nintendo Logic Would you rather have women on notes or women who can sign contracts and manage property?
@@greatwolf5372 Thats a really nice argument and underlines how feminists in the Western world are really making a big fuss over inconsequenstial shit while not appreciating how bad other woman have it in the world
@@timpyrules It's not a good argument at all, it's idiotic. The OP made no argument about it being better to have that many women on money. It was just a weird observation. Anti-feminists are so sensitive and perceive everything as an attack.
I read Switzerland and was really confused for a minute lol
I suddenly feel like there could easily be a whole channel dedicated to money. Not like an Economics channel -- just literally the paper banknotes and metal coins. Who the people are, what the stories are behind the designs, how they are manufactured in different places, etc.
There is actually
There is actually
Check out Half Asleep Chris
@@betty1347 what is it called
Me! 😁
I'm from Egypt and the Shilling is kind of a relic now for money collectors and its not used in the economy at all. It's practically just for show.
What do you use now?
We use the Egyptian Pound (EGP) now!
It is piastres in Egypt not shillings, strange that even El Ghoul doesn't even know that. 5 piastres used to be enough for a small bowl of kosheri or bus ride.
To be clear piastres are still used in Egypt , 10, 25, 50P with 100 equalling 1 Egyptian Pound.
You should totally do a collab with Geography Now!!
Nyes
NiZhenBang Nice
NiZhenBang I love that channel!
that would totally awesome
He wants to go to Canada this year as part of the 150 year celebrations, make it happen!
I think we all know who’s on every bill in North Korea
Nucc boi
Why have money when you can give all of your goods to state in exchange for all or the very much real plentiful food.
@@benwark4204 bruh
Surprisingly, many of the north Korean banknotes don't have pictures of the Kim's, and they only have pictures of Kim IL Sung, not the current dictator
New Zealand's new $20 bill is literally an insult to our dear queen!!
Dom831 hmm?
If it means anything I have a 100 trillion Zimbabwe bank note but unfortunately it's worthless now
I lost mine! I used to offer it to sales reps who wanted to sell me useless crap.
Can I please have it?
Chargers Hackenberg ye there just about worth 40 us cents but some people sell them in ebay 20-50 dollars
it says you have no content.
Chargers Hackenberg Yeah, I have 50 Million Z$
In the UK, both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own designs seperate from the designs used by the Bank of England. It causes issues for people travelling to England, particularly the south, from these areas. One thing I love about Northern Irish money is that over there they've allowed Danske Bank (which is a Danish bank) to print pounds, meaning the UK technically allows a foreign bank to print its money.
I didn't know that, xD
Ian R Close Who's on the Northern Irish money? Iain Paisley?
J.J. McCullough heavens no half of them would kick off at that. Some of them just have depictions of "a typical northern Irish person". There's one with George Best too, and then a few with various "sirs" on. None have the Queen.
Depends on the bank printing them. Ulster Bank uses images of local landmarks like the Giant's Causeway, Queens University and even (yes, playing to stereotypes) Bushmill's Whiskey distillery. There is as Ian R Close said the George Best pounds which are seen as a sort of collectors note but it's rare to get a note in NI which isn't a Ulster Bank note.
Interesting! I don't know much about NI, I realize.
Seeing money being teared before my eyes tears my heart.
Interesting fact, the 'plastic' (polymer) bank notes were originally developed in Australia. Ours seem to be much more durable though as you can't tear them even when scrunching them up as JJ did with the Canadian note.
I'm doing a massive road trip
Smoke report:
Alberta : meh, not bad
Washington : quite a lot but not very bad
BC : I LITTERALLY CANT EVEN GO OUTSIDE WTF
Adeeb Ighani I know it's awful eh
let's all just be glad we dont live in kamloops
I do... :/
+Slammy333 please see my currency collection channel all about hobby
I live in Washington.
My grand father still has some Reichmarks from the German occupation, I wonder what would happen if you bring those to Israel
Luc Groshens lol
Lol just dont
Luc Groshens lol
Luc Groshens that's really cool! My dad used to have some stamps of Hitler and von Hindenburg
Luc Groshens 😂😂😂
3:33 a machete a day keep colonials away
Lol so funny
I'm from Europe, especially from Czech Republic and we are in the EU but we still haven't accepted euros, we still have crowns 🙂🙂
Good job, qept your monetary sovereignty, greetings from Greece
@@NewDawnReaper yeah you’re right, but at the same time, i kind of feel some sort of oppression towards us by the eu
3:07 "Now how bout this bill from Denmark, it has, a fish." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"its super hot here in Canada!!"
*22 degrees celsius in Vancouver*
Bitch, thats cute😂 and rather cold!
/Aussie from Cairns, Queensland
You should try the 42°C at 98% humidity in Belém, BR
Keep talking we have that 50 celsius in dubai.
When you're an American and still use Fahrenheit.
I know...I still have to google the converter!...but 22C is only 71F..so..sweltering?..either my conversion or my U.S. English is faulty!
Yeaaahhhhh MAAAATTEEE!!!!!!!
Being myself a numismatist it's quite hard to choose amongst all the interesting things I can say about my own collection! But here are a few nice ones:
- My smallest bill (7.3 x 3.2 cm) is Chinese and dates from 1975. All that is written in the corner is "0.1" without any denomination: that's because it was used for food rationing and thus was literally worth 0.1 kg of rice!
- Another small bill (8.9 x 4.1 cm) is a Hong Kong banknote from 1961 only worth... 1 cent. It's only printed on one side, just as if it was from a Monopoly board game!
- I have a second note printed on one side: 50,000,000 German marks from 1923, from that famous period of inflation when money became worthless.
- My biggest bill is also German: it's a 1000 mark from 1910 and is 18.7 x 10.9 cm...
- The oldest is one of the first European banknotes: 15 French sols from 1792!
- Finally a funny design and I'll stop there: I've got 1 Indian rupee banknote from 1980... depicting a 1 rupee coin from 1980. Should have thought about that!
"and then finally brink of death nonagenarian on this current bill from canada"
She doesn't want to die becuase shes afraid to meet Princess Diana
When I was 11. I moved from Washington state to Alberta. And for the fist couple of months I was there, I was obsessed with collecting the money,
My favourite bill is the old 100 South Korean hwan note issued in 1962. It was in circulation for only a short amount of time. It has a mother and her son holding a bankbook. I like the fact that it has a normal everyday person depicted on the banknote. Additionally, a Korean newspaper a few years back tracked down the mother and son. Unfortunately, the bill was only in circulatiom for a few months.
2:18
Israel also had vertical portraits on all second series bills, though the currently used third series and the previous first series were horizontal
You'll find Sri Lankan banknotes also have vertical bank notes. But i guess we only have the note vertical on one side. For some reason the other side is horizontal on all the notes.
Your money collection just absolutely destroys mine 😂😂
3:12 His Hand
When I saw the vertical Switzerland bills it remembered me that also Mexico made a vertical bill to commemorate the 200 years independence of the country in 200 mexican pesos bill.
In Sweden, we have death on our 200kr bill. The main theme is the famous director Ingemar Bergman, and in the background you can see the character "the death" sitting on a rock!
Sweden is gay #perkele
J.J, I hope you have success in collecting more foreign money and I hope when you have assembled an ever bigger collection, that you showcase it. I also love your channel :D
the gopnik Aw thank you!
J.J. McCullough np and good luck fighting off the humidity lol
also Australian coins have a side shot of the queen on them
What.
Money from aroon the world.
The old Dutch banknotes are absolutely the most attractive and certainly it has the most technology too. I love the Netherlands.
I remember the Italian Lire from the 60s it was huge. You had to fold in 1/4 to fit in your wallet.
3:33 best looking money
Australia made the “plastic” dollar🇦🇺
Btw I live in the land down under Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi oi oi!
I actually have a North Korean 50 Won note. My dad is a chef, and one of his customers was a German student doing ecology work in the US. He liked the food, and told the waiter he had a tip for the chef. He then handed him a North Korean note and the waiter gave it to my dad, and he gave it to me.
This is a wonderful video. Thank you for all of your hard work in putting it together!
Hey JJ. Love the videos. Could you do a short one on the Canadian penny rounding? I heard Canada got rid of the penny a few years back and I think the US should do the same.
I recently went to Honduras to see my family and I collected all the Honduran Lempiras and my way back I also collected Mexican Pesos
Kristen Flagstad (who was an opera singer featured on the 100NOK bill) was replaced with a viking ship this year. And the 200kr bill in Norway used to feature the physicist Kristian Birkeland until quite recently. But this year he was replaced with a cod.
That guilder note took me right back to my childhood in NL haha
Love the shirt - no U.S. flag in the background, but still managed to fit one in! ;-) Greetings from one of your yank neighbors!
Also its not a bill, but the Hong Kong 2 Dollar coin is really cool.
Thank you for this informative video. Love to collect and hard to find good in-depth content.
Truly, with a great mustache comes great responsibility.
I don't remember when exactly I got it, but while checking out a customer at work she had some coins on the counter and one of them was a 5 pesewa coin from Ghana. She didn't know how she got it either, so she let me have it. One of my favorite collectibles.
We've got plastic £5 notes in Britain now, they're bringing in plastic £10 ones soon as well; also on our £20 notes we have a picture of the queen on one side and a guy called Adam Smith on the other and in my 19 years of life I've never met one person who knows who Adam Smith is or why he's on our money
Mukhtar Ahmed You're not British
They should add football players from the 60s
Mukhtar Ahmed I want a Winston Churchill bill so bad
Chunk Ogre yes I am, I was born in Liverpool
Adam smith is the father of capitalism fucking idiot, he was a scot, that's why he's on our money
The smoke is reaching us in Oregon!
My eyes are burning!!!!
Woah
There was tons of smog in Seattle, at Sunset it turned into an orange and purple sky with a red disc for a sun, pretty neat.
In Oregon. Can confirm. Also been having 105 degree days.
Maximum Borkdrive I'm in Bend half the time, and Corvallis. It's been ridiculous in the valley lately, finally cooling down
So far...You are the best I've seen yet. When I show my collection, I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed what you have shown. Best to you and yours.
You can go back even further than that with Queen Elizabeth II; her first appearance on currency was in 1935 in Canada on a $20 note, when she was just a 9 year old princess and her grandfather George V was king. (I sadly do not have this bill in my collection as it's quite expensive even in well circulated condition, but I'm sure you can find an image of it online easily enough.)
I'd love to mail the newest edition bills of my country to you. Where should I send them to? Got a PO Box?
email me at jjmccullough@gmail.com and I will let you know!
J.J. McCullough hey jj would you like some bills from the republic of somaliland an internationally unrecognised self declared state in the Horn of Africa btw love the channel
JJ is afraid to say his address over the internet because the crazy Canadian Nationalists will come and throw him off a skyscraper.
In Hungary, the largest inflation in the world happened ater WW2 (10^26%), so the largest pengő bill was worth a 100 trillion pengős.
På svenska med
1 quadrillion pengos*
Enjoyed your video! I am completing a unit on the "value" of money with my middle schoolers and am going to include your vid. I think the kids will enjoy learning some random facts about moolah. Thanks =) Tom
Venezuela's bolivar bills are printed vertically on the front and horizontally on the back, per remarks about Switzerland's vertical banknotes.
north Korea must also be included
No politics whatsoever, but I have many of them (North Korean money), though I have none for the 2009 series.
wait
THERE IS NONE
Does North Korea have currency? Or at least any in circulation? Being a communist nation 'n all.
@@SomeBritishGal1 Yes, they do. I, too, was surprised the first time I learned. I just thought they'd trade in US dollars like Ecuador or Zimbabwe do. But then again, to them USA is the devil lol. IDK maybe euros
@@SomeBritishGal1 Yes,they use the north korean won and its really cool they have faces of kim song il on it
3:19 They're the country with the highest or the second highest murder rate
When I was in Nicaragua my co-volunteers and I had this thing about "visiting the money" you see, the then current series had concrete locations on each bill. The C$10 (yes that is the way Nicaraguans abbreviate their currency) had El Castillo on it, the C$20 had the Caribbean Coast, the C$50 had Canyon de Somoto, the C$100 had a monument to Ruben Darío (to be found in León) the C$200 had Ometepe and the C$500 had the birth house of Augusto C Sandino. This series has since been replaced, but the new series seems to go with the "tourism" motive, too. Funny thing about Nicaraguan money back then was that the tener and the twenty were always polymer, the fifty most of the time, the hundred never, the two hundred always and the five hundred never...
I remember when they first introduced the Kazakhstani tenge banknotes when I grew up there they went from 1 to 100 and had portraits of notable figures in Kazakh history, with the 1 tenge note having the one with the most dubious links to Kazakhstan - the mediæval philosopher Al-Farabi (he was born long before the Kazakhs were defined as an ethnic group, and his actual place of birth and cultural background are disputed). Then, as inflation kicked in, they had to start adding bigger and bigger banknotes, eventually stopping at 10,000, and instead of coming up with new people to put on them they'd just reuse the Al-Farabi portrait. Also, in the late nineties they introduced coins going up to 100 tenge, which gradually displaced the smaller banknotes, meaning that in the early 2000s the only face you'd see on the banknotes actually in use was Al-Farabi. When I'd show the tenge banknotes abroad people would ask "Is this what your dictator looks like?" :D
Apparently in 2006, shortly after my family left Kazakhstan they introduced a whole new series of banknotes, which dispensed with human faces entirely... although they do all feature President Nazarbayev's handprint.
3:40 THIS is the legend of money in Indonesia
I have a bill from Czechoslovakia and several coins in defunct European currency. If you're interested, they're yours JJ.
Hello JJ. It is not a group of angry gun holding guys on the Iranian money, they are volunteers who helped liberate the port of Khorramshahr after Iraq invaded it. It is an important event in the country’s history and even people who don’t like the current regime cherish Khorramshahr liberation since it was done with great sacrifices and relatively empty hands versus the Iraqi army which was backed by every superpower back then.
man i love your videos
The new Australian $5 bill is so beautiful! It only came out last year and yes..... Queen Elizabeth is on there too 😂 I can happily mail you one if you like?
Lachlan McKay yes plz
J.J. McCullough If you message me a address I'll gladly do that for you
Lachlan McKay do you have any more? I can pay you for one I'm trying to get some European banknotes and Australian banknotes thanks!
That hag should be replaced by someone AUSTRALIAN.
Lachlan McKay sure I want one
I went to North Korea in 2015 and got some North Korean Won with Kim Il-Sung on in. Still carry it around in my wallet!
I spoke with some friends about this just yesterday! It is a good thing to collect money from another countries, it makes you think with an open minded perspective about the power governments give to this pieces of paper/plastic (love the swis way!)
Back then, my home nation, Malaysia use Ringgit as a currencey. But it uses paper first, now it uses plastic
Indonesia's money design changed in December 2016, it's not that design anymore.
xѕʏтнε but you can still use the old one
I'm half-Bermudian... we have some weird money
The Nicaraguan assassin was definitely my favourite one!
Most countries has only one central bank that issues and prints money, but Hong Kong has 3 commercial banks that also issues and prints money. They slightly differ in design and all are concurrently legal tender.
Switzerland has actually introduced new 10, 20 and 50 franc bills. So the 10 and 20 franc bills you show in the video are outdated. Ironically, they have replaced people (Le Corbusier and Arthur Honegger) with Swiss things (the Gotthard Base Tunnel and the Locarno Film Festival).
The weirdest bank notes I've ever paid with were the Uzbek Som. They depict buildings in the capital Tashkent, but only come in the denominations of 1000, 2000 and 5000 Som. Problem is: 2000 Som are the equivalent to 1 USD. So, every time you pay the bill at a restaurant, you end up leaving a whole pile of money on the table and the waiter will count the money for about two minutes!
Etienne Aubert kind of funny how france doesn't use the franc anymore, but switzerland does
@@TrigramThunder that's pretty cool
The CHF1000 bill has also been replaced, I hear it was made a bit smaller allowing an extra stack to fit in a standard bank safe deposit box. No doubt that gives a clue as to the main use of a Swiss thousand frank bill
Wait, pretty sure the Swiss francs also have to do with themes, like light, water, matter, nature, etc
Im not swiss. But I would be proud of the saint-gothard base tunnel.
(About) how many banknotes did you collect yet? I'm currently at 48.
On the old 200kr bill in Norway we have a picture of the guy who invented artificial fertilizers, now we just have a cod.
Venezuelan money is also vertical like Switzerland's. It's also VERY colorful and features a really diverse group of historical people on the front of each bill and an animal that is native to the country on the back of each bill.
Lenin's pic on 50 rouble bill USSR.1961
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omg that's kind of disrespectful lmao
That’s just a morbid sense of humor for how long she has been as a queen.
The anti-counterfit measure is called a watermark, also newer verison of american currency have the watermark aswell
I lived in Belgium for couple months ,and found old farenks in the wall , in a tiny pouch like roughly 70 coins.
Are there any countries who also have nicknames for almost all their money? Because The Dutch gulden used to have quite some. Too bad we don't have nicknames for the euro (at least not in the Netherlands). Although some people still say dubbeltje and stuiver. Here is a list of the Gulden nicknames.
1 cent - Spie
5 cents - Stuiver
10 cents - Dubbeltje (still used with euros)
25 cents - Kwartje
1 Gulden - Piek
1,5 Gulden - Daalder
2,5 Gulden - Rijksdaalder
5 Gulden - Bas
10 Gulden - Joetje
25 Gulden - Geeltje
50 Gulden - Zonnebloem
100 Gulden - Meier
250 Gulden - Vuurtoren
1000 Gulden - Rooie rug
Let me know if your country has or had them.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Matthias de Wit i
Very interresting, I didn't know it about your country, but the USA has also some nicknames,:
1 cent: cent, penny
5 cent: nickel
10 cent: dime
25 cent: quater
There were old nicknames in the US no on uses much anymore... like I think "sawbuck" was 10 dollars. "Shinplaster" was something....
fiver, tenner, 20 quid, 50 quid (UK slang)
Onkel Jajus Bahn there are also people that call American money by the President's or Statesmen printed on them. Example Benjamin's for hundreds and some folks say Lincoln's for pennies and 5 dollar bills.
Do you own any of the Zimbabwe trillion dollar bills 😏
Here's something you _might_ enjoy: I have no idea if you care about cons, but euro coins have different tails depending on the country or event they were issued for. There's a lot of them, too.
The new series 2000 ruble banknote is very interesting also. It features Vostochny cosmodrome and the bridge from Vladivostok.
There are new New Zealand 🇳🇿 Notes
Insane Dosage I like the 10$ most
you living in canada why you show canadian money as forgein currency ?€£¥₩$
because british columbia is in canada
You can't make a video about currency without putting your country's
Plastic bank notes were first developed in Australia and introduced in 1988. They have since been utilised around the world under license.
“Brink of death”😂😂
I have a 1000 peso Bill from Cuba 1950
6th level of irony what people is on the money
Thanks for Indonesian currency shoutout!
Same
J.J. mentions that a bunch of countries have plastic notes but casually brushes over Australia, who first introduced them.
Nice video, now I know I’m not the only one crazy about foreign paper money, I started collecting 32 years ago and now I’m very proud of my collection I have paper money from every single country in the world 😃😃😃
In România we have banknotes made from nylon/plastic, and they are called "Lei", that means "lions" 🦁
Where's the peso?
Juan Martinez
el banco de mexico?
нαρργ моνие the Philippines has the same currency as mexico
Did somebody say Peso?
are you talking about the Philippine Peso or Mexican Peso
The coins of our old money, before we changed to the Euro, the 'Schilling' were really strange. On the backyard you had an real cool looking design with the words: 'Republik Österreich', which translates to 'Republic of Austria'.
"Brink of death nonagenarian"
HOW DARE YOU.
Okay not only was the video cool , but the explanations of each bill cracked me up! 😂
Australian money is now changing and a hidden image will appear on the new notes if put upto uv light(ultra violet
Awesome! A fellow numismatist as well as a fellow vexillologist!!! Always like knowing others find this stuff fascinating and collect, too. My collection started when I was 10 with a Canadian quarter given to me by a great aunt after she visited. From there I had friends and family who gave me other coins and bills as well as penpals, too. A teacher, who went to write down languages in central Africa, even gave me some bills from the Belgian Congo...so it combined history with my fascination with numismatics. All of these folks also helped with vexillology, too. :-)
I also collect money from around the world. One fact about the money from Brazil, where I live, is that our money is colourful and have animals on it. The R$2 bill has sea turtles, R$5 has a heron, R$10 has a macaw, R$20 has a monkey, R$50 has a jaguar, R$100 has fish and R$200 has a wolf. We also used to have R$1 bills with hummingbirds.
Thats cool, I dont have any bills from Brazil, But they really look nice