Making Sense of the World of Currency

With 163 banknote issuing authorities, over 1,000 circulating banknote denominations and a similar number of coins, exploring currency trends can look daunting. Central banks, mints and treasury departments often need to understand design, substrate and security feature trends in the region and wider to explore options. Printers, designers, R&D departments and product managers, suppliers and cash cycle stakeholders also need this information.

Where to start?

CurrencyCheck: A quick reference site can be found at CurrencyCheck, which lists all currencies and providing images, included UV and IR images, of banknotes and coins. If you subscribe to Currency News™, Cash & Payment News™ or Coin & Mint News™, you get access to this.

It is not, however, a research tool since it has very limited search capabilities. Instead, it is a very useful ‘look-up’ tool which provides information on individual banknotes and countries quickly.