Most of us use banknotes every day without a second thought, but how often do you look

at the contents of your wallet closely, using a magnifying glass or a more complex device?

After a close inspection of a banknote, seeing all the richness of information a currency

banknote provides, many people become interested in becoming banknote collectors.

Collecting world paper money let’s you travel all around the globe without leaving comforts

of your home. When you collect world paper money you explore different cultures, places,

countries and continents, get to know many famous people, learn about nature, animals,

birds, rivers and lakes that are plentiful in seven continents of our Earth. Collecting world

paper money teaches you arts, geography, history, foreign languages even politics. Once

you assemble, diversify and maintain your world currency banknote collection, you kind of

become a stockholder of the entire world’s economy!

Collecting world banknotes strengthens world currencies,

helping world economies and cultures to prosper.

Banknote and paper money collecting is an exciting hobby which many thousands of people

all over the world enjoy so much. If you are new to this beautiful hobby of collecting truly

fantastic, magical collectibles ever collected in the world from all the mysterious countries

and places on our Planet Earth, I hope this web site will provide everyone with amazingly

beautiful images and all kinds of interesting, most intelligent and useful information on many

thousands of magical, enigmatic and truly marvellous banknotes from all over the world and

will teach you how to collect, what to collect and how to enjoy it.

People started systematically collecting paper and plastic bank notes quite recently.

Although collecting of paper money was going on for a long time, but that was done

only on a very small scale. Only in late 1950’s paper money collecting became more

of a global phenomenon. By 1920’s paper money began to be issued by significantly

more countries around the world and in early 1960’s practically the whole world was

using paper money for buy or sell transactions between people, businesses etc. As

a result more and more people started collecting paper money as beautiful collectible

items, for an investment or both. These days collecting world notes is growing very

strong and very fast. There are millions of paper money collectors all over the world

and every year new ones join in. Knowledge abounds with a multitude of general and

specialised catalogues covering notes of all modern and no longer existing countries.

Prices and value of collectible paper money grows steadily and better notes now

bring much higher prices than before making an idea of investing in banknotes as well

as collecting attractive.

Various countries of the world have their own words for paper money. These are

translations of words banknotes and paper money into some world languages:

French: Billets, Papier Monnaie;

German: Banknoten, Papier Geld;

Italian: Cartamoneta, Banconota;

Japanese: Shihei, Okane;

Lithuanian: Banknotai, Popieriniai Pinigai;

Russian: Banknoty, Bumazhniye Den’gi;

Spanish: Notas de Banco, Papel Moneda.

Click here to view the list of countries of the world, both modern and those which

do not exist anymore and even those which have reunited or have split apart.