Issued polymer 20 Dollars from the East Caribbean Central Bank, dated 2019 and catalogued as Pick 57. Read more →
First polymer 50 Dollars issue of the East Caribbean Central Bank, released in 2019 and printed by De La Rue. Initially unlisted in the SCWPM, it was later recognized and catalogued as Pick 58a. This early production note carries the same design elements later standardized across the denomination series. Read more →
Issued polymer 50 Dollars from the East Caribbean Central Bank, dated 2019 and catalogued as Pick 58a. Printed by De La Rue, it represents the official polymer debut of the highest denomination in the ECCB currency series. Read more →
Issued half-dollar from the Central Bank of the Bahamas, first recorded by PMG as Pick Unlisted prior to its formal inclusion in the Pick catalogue. Printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire, this note carries the watermark of Queen Elizabeth II alongside the denomination '1/2', consistent with the broader CRISP Evolution Series launched in 2019. Read more →
The 2019 CRISP Evolution release consolidated earlier printings that had circulated under provisional catalog numbers, such as the prior 'Pick Unlisted' entry now formalized as 76Aa. The Central Bank’s initiative emphasized secure yet visually distinctive design, blending traditional Caribbean color palettes with the technical expertise of European security printers. Read more →
Surviving photographic proofs of this type are scarce, as their utilitarian purpose did not favor long-term preservation. As a complete face proof with full serial format, mounted archival presentation, and confirmed production date, this example stands as a precise record of the design approval stage within Luxembourg’s twentieth-century banknote development. Read more →
A handwritten production annotation dated 24 February 1970 is visible along the lower margin, providing a direct reference to the internal review timeline. Such markings are characteristic of working proofs retained during layout approval and production coordination. Read more →
These merchant notes are among the earliest recorded private issues in Uruguay’s interior. They demonstrate how individual entrepreneurs like Valdez sustained local trade when official currency failed to reach the frontier economy. Read more →
Considerably scarcer than the 10 Centesimos, this 20 Centesimos note represents one of the few surviving examples of private merchant scrip from Uruguay’s frontier economy. Together, the two Valdez denominations illustrate how local initiative substituted trust and commerce for absent national coinage in 1870s Uruguay. Read more →
Historically, this specimen represents the final appearance of the pre-robbery layout: De La Rue’s guilloché and microtext design with latent numerals, holographic foil stripe, and complex underprint-hallmarks of early twenty-first-century security printing. Survivors are scarce and serve as reference material for the transition between the withdrawn 2004 and the replacement 2005 series. Graded PMG 63 Choice Uncirculated. Read more →
This engraved proof note was prepared for the Penn Township Savings Institution of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the early 1830s. Rather than serving as circulating currency, the document represents a fractional savings deposit certificate issued by one of the many mutual savings institutions that emerged in American cities during the early nineteenth century. Read more →
This uncut vertical sheet of four 10 Centavos notes was issued by the Ayuntamiento (municipal council) of Zitácuaro in the state of Michoacán during the Mexican Revolution. Catalogued as M2952c, the issue belongs to the wave of emergency municipal currencies produced throughout Mexico between 1914 and 1916 when the collapse of the national monetary system created an acute shortage of small change. Read more →