Q: If you have a new Euro banknote, how will you know from which member country it came from (since all of them have the same front and back feature)?
A: Please read the answer below.
Monetary Union of several European countries which are identified by printed serial letter:
- L = Finland
- M = Portugal
- N = Austria
- P = Netherlands
- R = Luxembourg
- S = Italy
- T = Ireland
- U = France
- V = Spain
- X = Germany
- Y = Greece
- Z = Belgium
Who is on the US banknotes?
$1---George Washington,
$2---Thomas Jefferson,
$5---Abraham Lincoln,
$10---Alexander Hamilton,
$20---Andrew Jackson,
$50---Ulysses S. Grant,
$100---Benjamin Franklin,
$500---William McKinley,
$1,000---Grover Cleveland,
$5,000---James Madison,
$10,000---Salmon P. Chase,
$100,000---Woodrow Wilson
COUNTRY NAME TRANSLATIONS:
AUSTRIA (OSTERREICH)
BANGLADESH (EAST PAKISTAN)
BURMA (MYANMAR)
CAMBODIA (KAMPUCHEA)
CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (ZAIRE)
CROATIA (HRVATSKA)
ETHIOPIA (ABYSINIA)
FINLAND (SOUMI)
GREECE (HELLAS)
HUNGARY (MAGYAR)
INDONESIA (EAST INDIES)
IRAN (PERSIA)
IRAQ (MESOPOTAMIA)
IRELAND (EIRE)
IVORY COAST (COTE D’IVORIE)
JAPAN (NIPPON)
LEBANON (LIBAN)
MADAGASCAR (MALAGASY)
MOROCCO (MAROC)
NORWAY (NORGE)
PHILIPPINES (PILIPINAS)
POLAND (POLSKA)
SRI LANKA (CEYLON)
TAIWAN (FORMOSA)
THAILAND (SIAM)
The first public circulation of the following US dollar notes are as follows:
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$100.00 (Cat. # P-134) : This note was first circulated in 1862 with the "heraldic eagle" on the face of the note.
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$500.00 (Cat. # P-135) : This note was first circulated in 1862 with Gallatin on the face of the note.
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$1,000.00 (Cat. # P-136) : This note was first circulated in 1862 with Morris on the face of the note.
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$5,000.00 (Cat. # P-174) : This note was first circulated in 1878 with Madison on the face of the note. All notes have been redeemed.
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$10,000.00 (Cat. # P-175) : This note was first circulated in 1878 with Jackson on the face of the note. All notes have been redeemed.
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$100,000.00 (Cat. # P-411) : This note was first issued in 1934 with Wilson on the face of the note. Issued for internal use within the Federal Reserve System. None were released for circulation.
ABBREVIATIONS:
- AMC - Allied Military Currency
- canc - canceled
- coun - counterfeit
- comm - commemorative
- JIM - Japanese Military Currency
- Mio - million (1.000.000)
- Mrd - milliard (1.000.000.000)
- Bio - billion (1.000.000.000.000)
- NL - not listed
- ND - no date
- ovpt - overprint
- POW - prisoners of the war
- perf -perforation
- p/h - pin holes
- QEII - Queen Elizabeth II
- sign - signature
- spec - specimen
- SYS -Sun Yat Sen
- rema -remainder
- unfi - unfinished
- unpt - underprint (background)
- w/ - with
- w/o -with out
- wmk - watermark
- ww1 - world war 1
- ww2 - world war 2
- # -number
During severe hyperinflation in Hungary during and after World War II, the Hungarian government created the 1 milliard B. pengo note. It was never issued, however. One milliard B. pengo corresponds to a denomination of . . .
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pengo
To give you an idea of the magnitude of this number, if these were US dollars, it would be enough for every human on Earth to have over 200 billion dollars each!
The highest denomination issued was the next lower note which was 100,000,000 B. pengo note (only 20 billion dollars each).