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.
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
how!!! do you have so few view?! this channel is a gem! Eastern Caribbean Money is pretty interesting as well. as the queen and images of most of the islands on them.
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
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. :-)
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 😃😃😃
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.
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
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...
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?
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
The Romanian Leu is also pretty interesting, same with the Ugandan Shilling... can you do a part 2 please? BTW what's your address, so I can mail these to you?
@@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
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!)
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.
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.
Hey JJ Your video was so awesome and informative. I have collected bills just like you have and I wonder if now with the internet is there a internet room where people can share bills all over the world
