r/WorldPaperMoney

Obverse:Portrait of King Mohammed VI

Reverse:Artistic:The Great Theatre of Rabat, Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rabat)

Issuing bank: Bank Al-Maghrib(Bank of Morocco)

Obverse: Potrait of Hideyo Noguchi,Japanese Bacteriologist(Scientist).

Reverse: Nakanokura-touge mountain pass northwest of the lake, depicting Mount Fuji and its reflection on Lake Motosu.

Issuing bank:Nippon Ginko( Bank of Japan)

A huge and heartfelt congratulations to the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten on winning the 2025 IBNS “Bank Note of the Year Award”! 🌍💜

This is more than just a recognition of a beautiful banknote — it’s a celebration of art, culture, and innovation. The stunning 200 Gulden note, inspired by the mysterious “World Under the Sea,” captures the spirit of the islands with elegance and imagination. From the graceful seahorses to the iconic Queen Emma Bridge, every detail tells a story.

To stand out among nearly 100 new banknotes worldwide — and to become the clear favorite — is a remarkable achievement. It reflects not only exceptional design, but also a deep respect for heritage, accessibility, and cutting-edge security.

And to all fellow banknote collectors around the world: this is a moment to celebrate together. This note is not just currency — it’s a masterpiece, a conversation piece, and a symbol of why we love numismatics.

Here’s to passion, craftsmanship, and the stories that live in every banknote. Congratulations! 🎉

In short:

The Australian War Memorial is researching a 4-metre-long chain of banknotes from an Australian air force member who served during World War II.

"Short snorters" were a military tradition centred on camaraderie.

What's next?

Australians will commemorate the members of the Australian Defence Force who have served the nation on Anzac Day.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-21/australian-war-memorial-curator-finds-4-metre-wwii-short-snorter/106576724

Iran Rial 20000rial fore show

Fraudsters are counterfeiting Jamaica’s plastic polymer banknotes, according to the regulator in its annual report.

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), however, insists it still detected three times more cotton fakes than polymer fakes in 2025. Specifically, the BOJ detected 69 fake polymer notes valued at $300,000 during 2025, up from 19 counterfeit polymer notes valued at under $100,000 in 2024. Though small in absolute terms, the rise suggests forgers are increasingly turning their attention to the plastic bills that have replaced the island’s cotton-based notes, and could hint at larger volumes that have gone undetected.

The central bank pushed back against any suggestion that polymer notes are proving vulnerable. Counterfeit cotton-based notes – the old bills that ceased to be legal tender on July 1, 2025 – still accounted for the bulk of fake currency detected, with 380 cotton counterfeits valued at $1.0 million found in 2025, roughly three times the value of polymer fakes. “There continued to be fewer attempts made at counterfeiting the polymer notes, relative to the attempts made at the cotton-based notes,” the BOJ said in its annual report.

The $5,000 note remained the primary target across both substrates, with “a total of 228 counterfeit $5,000 notes valued at $1.1 million detected” in 2025, the BOJ said.

Polymer banknotes now dominate circulation. “Consistent with this transition, polymer banknotes accounted for 96.8 per cent, or $304.5 billion, of the value of all banknotes in circulation at end-2025,” the BOJ stated.

The notes are designed to offer greater durability and stronger anti-counterfeiting features, though the BOJ cautioned it is too early to draw firm conclusions. “Although polymer banknotes have been in circulation since June 15, 2023, this time period is too short to provide reliable data for the accurate assessment of the average circulation life of the polymer banknotes,” the report stated, adding that the notes “are expected to exhibit a longer lifecycle when compared with their cotton-based counterparts”.

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20260417/counterfeiters-target-jamaicas-plastic-banknotes

you’re a politician, it’s one thing to see your face and policies made fun of in a political cartoon. But satirical currency? That’s a whole different level of critique.

A special piece of this political history billed as “the most unhinged banknote ever printed” recently sold for a whopping $4,800. This fake bank note lampoons the terrible banking policy under cheese-loving President Andrew Jackson and offers us a window into understanding the political slings and arrows tossed around during the Hard Feelings Era, a real historical era from 1832 to 1844 named for a severe economic downturn linked to bad banking practices.

The Locofoco Party and a big fiscal panic

The valuable paper bill is a “Great Loco Foco Juggernaut,” named after the Locofoco Party. This radical wing of the Democratic Party was organized in New York City in 1835. They opposed state banks, paper money, tariffs, monopolies, and financial policies that they deemed antidemocratic and conducive to special privilege. The unofficial bank note satirizes the Panic of 1837, a major economic depression largely caused by President Jackson.

“Andrew Jackson’s opposition to a central bank made state-chartered local banks much more robust players in the growing economy, but their protections were not as robust as the Federally chartered Second Bank of the United States,” John Kraljevich, the Director of Numismatic Americana at Stack’s Bowers Galleries who auctioned off this banknote, tells Popular Science.

Simply speaking, the president gave the less regulated banks more control, which led to several misguided loans as more Americans settled in the west.

a portrait of andrew jackson. he has white hair and is waring a coat with red lapels

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States and served from 1829 to 1837. Image: Portrait painted by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl via the White House Historical Association.

Speculators were given plenty of credit from these smaller banks to purchase land in the western United States. All of that easy credit and paper money exceeded how much cash they had on hand causing a risky economic land bubble, not so different from the 2008 housing crisis.

“When the federal government insisted on payment for land in gold or silver, many of those bank loans went bust, banks went under, and specific payments, [which are] payments from banks in gold and silver, were suspended,” Kraljevich explains.

As a result, the circulating money supply was made of unbacked paper money with no real value. The bills were often called shinplasters, in reference to how they were put inside of boots to keep the feet dry. “They were as worthless as the satirical notes that imitated them and lampooned the policies that created them,” says Kraljevich.

With the financial system and public confidence in it unraveling, the country fell into the Hard Times Era, which some weathered with satirical currency.

“The satirical notes from the Hard Times Era were made by mostly unknown private individuals, produced to sell to adherents of a particular political viewpoint, not unlike political novelties today,” says Kraljevich.

Political conventions are full of “novelties,” such as little trinkets, posters, clothing, and more expressing opinions. The now infamous red Make America Great Again hats and signs calling to “Lock Her Up” are some of the more memorable campaign memorabilia from the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton.

a satirical coin that reads "i take the responsibility" with a man with curly hair holding a sword in one hand, a bag of money in the other, and sitting in a wooden crate

This token was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1834. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer that is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods, including tokens. This “hard times token” mocked President Andrew Jackson for his economic policies.

In the particularly blistering note recently sold at auction, President Jackson, his then Vice President and future president Martin Van Buren, and their allies are depicted as animals and symbols of chaos. Martin Van Buren is depicted as a cat riding a “2,000 Jack Ass Power” wagon that is being pulled away, symbolizing the Locofoco Party.

In one corner, President Jackson is shown as an old maid that is tramping on the “Vote of Congress, People’s Rights, and Common Sense.” Jackson is also depicted as an emperor, holding a flag of the U.S. Constitution and an oar of veto power, referencing his influential and despised “Kitchen Cabinet.” This informal group of unelected friends and advisors influenced Jackson’s first term, much to the ire of Congress.

Most of these paper notes were issued anonymously to help protect a business from backlash. Others were boldly signed by the printers.

This Great Loco Foco Juggernaut recently sold at auction for $4,800. It is one of 10-15 known examples. Image: Stack’s Bowers Galleries.

“The extraordinary Loco Foco Juggernaut note is signed by its well known engraver, the artist and actor David Claypoole Johnston, a Boston printmaker who became one of America’s highest profile cartoonists in his era,” says Kraljevich.

Many New Englanders like Johnston were not exactly fans of Jackson’s so the printer’s politics were likely aligned with anti-Jackson viewpoints shown on the bill. He also could have been looking to make a quick buck by selling the satirical bill.

Political commentary that is “not going anywhere”

Even though the Great Loco Foco Juggernaut note was not put in circulation, using currency as a way to lampoon political leaders was not exclusive to the turbulent days of Andrew Jackson. During the Roman empire, a process called damnatio memoriae removed the busts of unpopular emperors from circulating coins.

According to Kraljevich, currency satirists also “engraved horns on the Pope, put hats or pipes on portraits, or removed the clothes from Miss Liberty.”

By modern times, fake banknotes that satirized politicians or advertised goods became more popular. During the 1968 presidential election between Republican Richard Nixon, Democrat Hubert Humphrey, and independent candidate George Wallace, civil rights activist and write-in presidential candidate Dick Gregory issued several satiral banknotes. When the Secret Service questioned him about counterfeiting money, Gregory told them that no one who looked like him (a Black man) would ever be on a real piece of currency.

Dollar bill campaign advertisement for African-American comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, featuring a peace symbol, portrait of Mr Gregory, and slogan Your Vote is Legal and Sacred, urging voters to write in Dick Gregory as President of the United States for the 1968 election, November 5, 1968.

Dollar bill campaign advertisement for African-American comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, featuring a peace symbol, portrait of Mr. Gregory, and slogan “Your Vote is Legal and Sacred,” urging voters to write in Dick Gregory as President of the United States for the 1968 election on November 5, 1968.

“A satirical answer about the state of race relations that underscored why this kind of culture is still vital and interesting,” says Kraljevich.

And this tradition of using money to either prop up politicians or take them down continues to this day. These depictions will offer future historians and numismatists—people who study currency—an idea of today’s political debates and landscape.

“The fact that satirical bank notes depict Andrew Jackson as an emperor by his enemies and Donald Trump in a similar way by his supporters suggests that this method of political commentary is ancient and not going anywhere.”

https://www.popsci.com/science/fake-money-mock-andrew-jackson/