The world's most beautiful currencies

The world's most beautiful currencies

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A Costa Rican banknote for five colones. It shows Rafael Yglesia Castro, 
president of Costa Rica from 1894 to 1902 and a Guaria Morada orchid, 
Costa Rica's national flower. The current series of banknotes 
is being replaced throughout 2010. 


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A Canadian banknote for five dollars, depicting children playing ice hockey. 
The verse is from a Roch Carrier short story, and reads: "The winters of my 
childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places - the school,
 the church and the skating rink - but our real life was on the skating rink." 


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A colourful five dollar Australian note. In 1965, Australia adopted the name 
"royal" for its currency, but it was later dropped in favour of the dollar. 


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A note for one Egyptian pound.
 All Egyptian banknotes are bilingual.


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A 100 dirham note from the UAE, showing the World Trade Centre. 
A falcon watermark is placed on all UAE banknotes to help prevent fraud. 




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A five rupee note from Pakistan. The port depicted 
is Gwadar port, which opened in 2008. 


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A five ringgit note from Malaysia showing the Kuala Lumpur International 
Airport, the Petronas Twin Towers, and the Multimedia Super Corrido


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A 20 rand note from South Africa. Each in this series of
 banknotes features a different animal from the "big five". 


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A colourful, floral 1000 note from French Polynesia,
 where the currency is the CPF franc. 


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A 500 baht note from Thailand. 
This is roughly equivalent to £10 of British money. 


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A Surinamese ten dollar note. The dollar replaced 
the Surinamese guilder in January 2004. 


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A one lempira note from Honduras. The lempira was
 introduced in 1931, and is named after a 16th century ruler


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A New Zealand note for five dollars, depicting 
New Zealand's native hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin. 


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A Bahamian one dollar note, showing the Royal Bahamas police force band. 


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A one dinar note from Libya. The dinar replaced the pound in 1971. 


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Indian 1000 Rupee note bearing the image of the nation's father, 
Mohandas K. Gandhi in front and a combine harvester, an offshore oil derrick, 
a satellite, and a steel furnace, with a young girl working at a computer at the back


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An Indonesian note for 1000 rupiah. The word rupiah derives from the Indian rupee. 
This note shows traditional houses in the city of Palembang