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| Welcome to my website! The purpose of this site is to promote the collection of polymer banknotes. Here you will be able to view my entire collection, including some of the Tyvek and Bradvek notes issued since early 1980s. This site is updated as and when new notes are acquired. Please note that the information posted on this site have not been thoroughly investigated or confirmed by any issuing authorities. If you spotted any errors, please contact me and I will amend it accordingly. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. To view the notes, please clink onto the hyperlinks above. Relax, enjoy and have fun. |
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| 1 | Recently I received a Polymer Banknotes CD
catalogue (see below) from Thomas Krause.
This catalogue is produced by Peter Bauer
and Thomas Krause both of Germany. This is
the 4th edition of the catalogue released
on 1/4/2008. The first edition was issued
in November 2004. In addition to producing
such a wonderful catalogue, both Peter and
Thomas are also avid polymer banknotes collectors.
Needless to say, they spent considerable
of their free time into the research and
studying of polymer banknotes. This is indeed an excellent catalogue for those who are interested in polymer banknote collectors regardless of whether you are an expert or a new comer to this interesting hobby. The CD catalogue comes with details of all polymer banknotes issued since the early 80s, including those printed by various printers for the purpose of promoting the technology. The CD also briefly touched on the history of polymer banknotes, its security features adopted and more importantly it also highlighted those fake polymer notes available in the market (let the buyers beware!). In addition to this, it also provides details of variation signatures, year issued, letter prefix (like Australia first and last) which you will never find in the Standard Catalogue of World Banknotes. One thing I find it useful is that it also provides a guide to market value of the note which is definitely an added advantage to those who may be interested in picking up this wonderful hobby. My assessement on the catalogue is that the authors have spent a fairly in-depth research on the existence of polymer notes both notes issued and printed by various companies since the 1970s. Whilst this comes in a CD format, you can always have a hard copy printed out for your own references. In all there are 311 pages in pdf format. If you are interested in getting a copy of the CD Catalogue or for any enquires, please contact Thomas Krause at thomas.krause @ polymernotes.de or by clicking here. I would recommend for those who are interested in this hobby to get one for their references. (1/5) |
| 2 | On 13/04/2008, Israel became the 27th country
to release a new 20 new Sheqalim banknote.
This note comes in 2 versions. One with red
overprint in Hebrew celebrating 60th year
for the creation of the State of Israel.
Only 1.8M pieces of this special overprint
notes are issued and they are apparently
only available to the public via Bank's ATMs
in Israel. The new polymer note has the same
design as the previous 20 new Sheqalim paper
note but with added security features such
as the transparent window etc |
| 3 | As we all known Papua New Guinea has issued
2 new polymer notes, being the 5 and 10 Kina
on 18/04/2008. Whilst the existing 10 Kina
in circulation is already a polymer note,
this is the first time a 5 Kina polymer note
has been issued. With this, Papua New Guinea
is now the sixth nation to have fully converted
to polymer banknotes, after Australia, New
Zealand, Romania, Vietnam and Brunei. The
current 50 Kina note also bears the design
of the Parliament Houes. Would this be replaced
at a later date too? I hope so. Time will
tell! |
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Latest Polymer banknotes CD Catalogue by: - Thomas Krause & Peter Bauer Released 01.04.2008. |
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| Latest Polymer Notes Added 2008 Unfortunately no new Polymer bank note added for this month. Hopefull I will get the Israel, PNG, Western Samoa (AAL Prefix) and Zambia new polymer notes soon! |
Current Australian Circulating Polymer Banknotes $5 (2006) Ian Macfarlane / Ken Henry - [BA-HB] $10 (2006) Ian Macfarlane / Ken Henry - [AA-GL] $20 (2007) Glenn Stevens / Ken Henry - [AA-JC] $50 (2006) Ian Macfarlane / Ken Henry - [AA-JC] $100 (1999) Ian Macfarlane / Ted Evans - [AA-JK] |
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