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1 Most notoriously, ________ produced a number of silk, leather, velvet, linen and wood issues, and although these issues were produced primarily for collectors, rather than for circulation, they are in demand by collectors.

2 Later, the Continental Congress issued continental currency to support the ________.

3 Even playing cards were used for currency in France in the early 19th Century, and in French Canada from 1685 until 1757, in the ________ in the beginning of the 19th Century, and again in Germany after World War I.

4 In 1816, Congress chartered the ________.

5 ________'s feudal system was based on rice per year – koku.

6 Banknotes printed on cloth include a number of Communist Revolutionary issues in China from areas such as ________, or Sinkiang, in the United Islamic Republic of East Turkestan in 1933.

7 Banknote collecting, or ________, is a rapidly growing area of numismatics.

8 A number of 19th century issues are known in Germanic and Baltic states, including the towns of ________, Pernau, Reval, Werro and Woisek.

9 In 1988, ________ produced the 5000 Schilling banknote (Mozart), which is the first foil application (Kinegram) to a paper banknote in the history of banknote printing.

10 During the Russian administration of ________, banknotes were printed on sealskin.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the current series of banknotes in Singapore feature the portrait of Yusof bin Ishak, the first President of Singapore?
  • the first 8-real banknotes were printed in Puerto Rico in 1766?
  • the winnings from the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup were paid out in the form of over a hundred sacks of IR£1 notes?
  • the Ottoman Bank, established as a private bank in 1856, became a central bank in 1863 and issued banknotes in the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey until 1931?
  • the cathedral of the Armenian town of Zvartnots was depicted on the first emission of 100 AMD banknotes?
  • Llandovery Bank, established in Wales in 1799, was known locally as the "Black Ox Bank" because it issued banknotes bearing a black ox?
  • polymer banknotes (right) are made from the polymer biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP), and that they incorporate many security features not available to paper banknotes making counterfeiting more difficult?
  • the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu, owned by Alpha Bank, is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display?
  • 80% of all British banknotes are contaminated with drugs?
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