In April 2008, the Bank of Ireland marked the moment with the launch of new banknotes that honour the Bushmills Irish Whiskey's heritage by featuring the famous Old Bushmills Distillery in Co Antrim.

Bank Of Ireland (2008) 20 Pounds - Bushmills Distillery

The official currency of Transnistria is the Transnistrian ruble. Transnistria is an internationally unrecognized country. Currency has no ISO code.

Transnistria (1994) 10 Ruble (front)

Polymer banknotes were introduced in (2004) due to high cases of banknote forgery. All of them are polymer. The largest denomination is the BND 10,000.

Brunei (2006) 10,000 Dollar - (front) Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah

Bloomberg 3rd June 2008:-
1 USD = 1.3628 BND (Brunei Dollar)

The somoni (ISO 4217 code: TJS) is the currency of Tajikistan. It is subdivided into 100 diram. The currency is named after the father of the Tajik nation, Ismail Samani (also spelled Ismoil Somoni).

Tajikistan (1999) 10 Somoni (front) - Portrait of Mir Syed Ali Hamadani

In November 2006, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) of Bhutan released the new one Ngultrum note. The release, called the ‘Series 2006’, was part of a clean note policy during which the authority would mop up all the soiled, dirty and mutilated notes from circulation. See The Full Series 2006

Bhutan (2006) 1 Ngultrum (front) - Dragons

Bloomberg 3rd June 2008:-

The US appeals court recently ruled that the blind and other visually impaired people are discriminated against by the nation's currency.

Canada has put "embossed dots" on its bills that vary by denomination, while the Euro includes a foil feature that can be detected by touch, the judges said. The United States is nearly alone in the world in using bills that are the same in size and color in all denominations, they added.

There are about 3.7 million visually impaired in USA. The US Treasury Dept is considering next action includig appeal to Supreme Court.

The US $10 Dollar and US $100 Dollar banknotes are the only 2 bills which do not feature a President of the United States on the front. The $10 bill features the first US Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)

USA (2004) 10 Dollar - portrait of Alexander Hamilton

Sometime during the 1870s to 1930s the USA had currency notes issued by banks chartered by the United States Government. The notes were backed by United States bonds the bank deposited with the United States Treasury.

National Bank of Honolulu, Hawaii (1929) 50 Dollar (front)

The Chinese Soviet Republic (traditional Chinese: 中華蘇維埃共和國; simplified Chinese: 中华苏维埃共和国; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Sūwéi'āi Gònghéguó), it is also translated as the Soviet Republic of China or the China Soviet Republic, though it is generally referred to in historical literature as simply the "Jiangxi Soviet".

Chinese Soviet Republic (1931-34) One Yuan

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Do You Know The Highest Valued Currency In The World?

Submitted by james on Thu, 08/05/2008 - 7:49pm.

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The highest valued currency unit is the currency in which a single unit buys the highest number of any given other currency or the largest amount of a given good. Currently this is the Kuwaiti Dinar ( 1 KWD = 3.74 USD)

Kuwait (2001) 1 Dinar (front)

Most commonly the calculation is made against a major reserve currency such as the euro (EUR), the pound sterling (GBP) or the United States dollar (USD).

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