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Exploring the History of Banknotes

Test your knowledge of the history and production of banknotes through this engaging quiz. Explore various historical contexts, currency issues, and the evolution of currency across different regions.

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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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