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banknotecollection.com is a site for everyone interested in world banknotes. It contains a gallery section with banknotes from 220+ countries, an article section with a growing number of articles that are useful or interesting for banknote collectors and more. The site is constantly expanding and improving, check in regularly to see everything that is added.
The banknotes in this site is identified using the Pick and The Banknote Book (BnB) systemes, more about them here.

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African banknotes
American banknotes
Asian banknotes
European banknotes
Oceanian banknotes

New Polymer set from Jamaica

Jamaica has released its new all polymer set of banknotes.






Older News

For previous news see here!

IBNS

The International Bank Note Society is a non-profit organization for banknote collectors all over the world. Its objectives are to promote, stimulate, and advance the study and knowledge of worldwide banknotes and paper currencies.
If you are a new collector IBNS has a few interesting resources to get you going.

First of all they have written a document about banknotes that is strongly recommended for everyone to read. It can be downloaded from this link I recommend it to all collectors, but especially new ones, since it contains lots of interesting knowledge.

Since digital meetings and presentations has become more important in the last year, IBNS members has hosted several
presentation where a specific area has been explained by banknote expert, and other members has had the opportunity to ask questions. Many of the presentations has been recorded and placed on youtube, on IBNS own channel, for all to watch. These videos are pretty long (usually around 1 hour) and can be found here:
IBNS youtube channel

History

2023-10-18 Added 27 banknotes.

2023-08-17 Added 22 banknotes.
Added Jamaicas new polymer serie.

2023-07-11 Added 42 banknotes.

2023-03-04 Added 38 banknotes.
News updated with Central African States latest series.

2023-01-29 Added 6 banknotes.
News updated with Barbados latest series.

2022-12-30 Added 42 banknotes.

2022-10-16 Added 13 banknotes.

2022-09-24 Added 52 banknotes.
Short article on QE2 and her importance to banknote collectors.

2022-08-12 Added banknotes and site improvements.
Added 38 banknotes.
An article on Portugals last banknote series before introducing the Euro.
Less than half of Asia remaining to be updated.

2022-07-15 Added banknotes and site improvements.
Added 59 bannknotes (including a very early polymer banknote from Isle Of Man).
One more article on the development of polymer banknotes.
America, Oceania/Australia, Africa, and Europe updated and mobile friendly. Just Asia remaining.

2022-05-24 Added banknotes and site improvements.
America, Oceania/Australia and 22 sections (countries) in Africa are now updated and mobile friendly.
A new gallery section on test notes has been added under other (could be other types of banknotes added in the future).
10 new banknotes added (plus the test notes).

2022-04-24 Site improvements.
More than half of America is now updated and therefore more mobile friendly (27 out of 40 cuntries are done).
Works continues with the rest of America.

2022-April: Site improvements.
Ongoing work to make pages more mobile friendly. Started with America,
countries such as Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile has been completed but many remain.

2022-03-27: Added 48 banknotes.
Started work to make the site more mobile friendly.

2022-02-20: Added 45 banknotes.
Currently this website now contains 224 countries, 5 monetary unions, and 1828 banknotes.
Added article about latest serie of Swedish banknotes. Also cotinued focus on adding BnB numbers.

For more updates see history.