I have been collecting US Postage Stamps from the last 35 years. After having almost completed my stamp collection I wanted to start a new hobby so from the last 15 years I started collecting paper money of the world. I decided to create this website for educational purposes exclusively to paper money so that others can share the joy of my collection. Almost all of my collection is now on display for your viewing pleasure. There are very few images which are not mine.
Paper currency collection is still a relatively new hobby in compare to Stamps & Coins collections. I have been collecting US Postage stamps and coins from the last 30 years and found that there is so much information available for Stamps and Coins collection in a way of reference books and on the internet but very little for Paper currency.
Under Overview/History – I have tried to cover lot of information regarding the history of paper currency of the World and somewhat more detailed history about US and Indian paper currency. There are many sites which have lot of detailed information for each country but not much about their currency.
Pictures worth thousand words, I am trying to display the world by dividing it into continents, then showing all the countries within those 7 different continents, then displaying the monetary system for each country, then displaying few currencies of each country and finally displaying the financial institute, Denomination, the year it was printed (if available) and also the status of the country. I have also provided a Direct Link to either World Bank or CIA website for each country and also tried my best to provide a link for each country's National or Central bank for more information and research purposes.
The goal of this site is, when a visitor leaves this site, he/she will know little more regarding the world, continents, countries and interesting facts regarding paper currencies of the world before they came here. I will keep updating this site as more information becomes available for each currency in the future.
Paper money collectors can be broadly divided into two major categories, specialization for a specific country or World Paper Money (WPM). Within each category, one can be either a general collector or a specialized collector. The goal of a general collector is to collect al least one paper currency of each country, whereas the goal of a specialized collector is to collect everything available in that specialized area.
As a General Paper Currency Collector of the world, I have tried to get a sample of at least one paper currency from each paper currency issuing country. You could view them either from the Country Index or by the continents.
As a Specialized Paper Currency Collector , I have created 3 Special Exhibits for your viewing pleasure.
Special Exhibit – USA: I have divided this exhibit into 6 categories (Colonial Money, US States Money, Confederated, Fractional, Large Bills and Modern Money). This way you can see how the money used to look during British time. How each State used to have their own money.
Special Exhibit – India: I have divided this exhibit into 7 categories (Private Bank, British India, Portuguese India, French India, Princely India, Burma Pak Gulf and Haj, miscellaneous and Modern). Private Banks have been further divided into Bank of Bengal, Bank of Bombay, Bank of Madras and Oriental Bank. British India has been divided into Victoria Series, George V, George VI and Cash Coupons.
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