Crazy foreign money collection

[@RobertGrif]

I work at a bank. One day, a customer came in with money that nobody recognized, hoping to exchange it for U.S. dollars. My manager was just about to turn the customer away, when I and my money-nerd tendencies stepped in and immediately recognized what she had - Northern Irish pound sterling notes. See, the UK doesn't have a single paper currency. While England and Wales use Bank of England notes, in Scotland and Northern Ireland, a handful of private banks issue their own banknotes for those countries. That's why nobody (but me!) knew what those notes were; they didn't look like the British pounds we were used to seeing because they weren't Bank of England notes. Luckily, since I knew what they were, we were able to make the exchange for the customer.

[@JJMcCullough]

Wild!

[@jgroenveld1268]

I used to work at a New Zealand bank and we only accepted Bank of England notes and Scottish bank notes. We would on sell Bank of England notes to other customers but had to return the Scottish notes back to our head office. We unfortunately didn't accept Northern Irish notes.

[@animeguy7192]

it seems weird to me that other private banks make money other than just the main Gov.

[@zworg2]

if you work in bank, a true bank, and no-one has any clue about northern island or scottish money you amust be in a bad bank. ive worked in retail and had posters about both, how do banks NOT know?? especially as they are legal tender...???

[@Claro1993]

Same situation in Hong Kong and Macau where private banks are the ones printing/issuing paper currency with the exception of the 10 Hong Kong dollar bill where printed by three private banks with some designs being similar or different with each other: HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China.

[@Hilariousity101]

Watching you tear that $20 bill lowkey broke my heart

[@flame9214]

Me too

[@baconlord0632]

same you should of gave it to me

[@TsukiCondor]

F

[@randommemesweekly4417]

i feel the same way, canadian money looks so cool

[@TsukiCondor]

@@randommemesweekly4417 It is very colorful 😁👍

[@Orange_Laowai]

Zimbabwe had $1-$100 Trillion banknotes when they hit hyper inflation in 2007-2008.

[@brandonn.410]

Ghawk Yeah I have 50 Million Z$

[@pinkiepieofrainbowdash1905]

°_° A trillion?!

[@ikkemikkel2232]

CORRECTION: Yes, the Danish bill was very old but we didn't make the switch to the €'s. We just keep getting new designs of our own.

[@collinhelm8209]

That's cool I like countries keeping there own money so sad that those weird Dutch notes are dead now

[@evilproductionstudios9659]

£

[@eken1725]

@@DTWExtreme I like that we here in Sweden voted for the euro and now we make it look like we don't meet the criteria of getting the euro as a currency every year, or something like that.

[@eken1725]

@@DTWExtreme I wish I had a few Dag Hammarskjöld banknotes. One to collect, the others for other things.

[@viden8658]

Denmark has Kroner

[@lance5367]

Very Youthful Comfortable Middle Age Cuddly Grandmother Brink Of Death IM DEAD 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nakselion]

And finally, her lizard form

[@regnij01]

@@nakselion then a f### ghost

[@geoguru32]

When I was at KFC, the employee accidentally gave me a euro cent...I live in Australia...

[@johndaly2816]

Yea i lived in australia and has received poundsterling or singapore dollar as change too.

[@TurtleRailTSR]

LOL I was in Macau and I got my change in RMB, HKD, and Macau Dollar, I paid with HKD

[@Justsomelycan]

Someone tried to give me japenese yen and i live in the us

[@Justsomelycan]

@@johndaly2816 wait you should keep the pound sterling because you can exchange that for more how much was it

[@Justsomelycan]

@@TurtleRailTSR so you got chinese yuan and hong kong daller

[@yousefelghoul03]

I'm from Egypt and the Shilling is kind of a relic now for money collectors and its not used in the economy at all. It's practically just for show.

[@JJMcCullough]

What do you use now?

[@yousefelghoul03]

We use the Egyptian Pound (EGP) now!

[@kamuzu]

It is piastres in Egypt not shillings, strange that even El Ghoul doesn't even know that. 5 piastres used to be enough for a small bowl of kosheri or bus ride.

[@kamuzu]

To be clear piastres are still used in Egypt , 10, 25, 50P with 100 equalling 1 Egyptian Pound.

[@nintendologic5087]

Swaziland, where married women can't independently sign contracts or manage property, has more women on its money that the United States. The world is so weird.

[@kamuzu]

Again another case of people not knowing what they are talking about. These are not the kings wives, this is the reed dance procession held each year where 'potential' wives are sorted out for the King.

[@greatwolf5372]

Nintendo Logic Would you rather have women on notes or women who can sign contracts and manage property?

[@timpyrules]

@@greatwolf5372 Thats a really nice argument and underlines how feminists in the Western world are really making a big fuss over inconsequenstial shit while not appreciating how bad other woman have it in the world

[@enotsnavdier6867]

@@timpyrules It's not a good argument at all, it's idiotic. The OP made no argument about it being better to have that many women on money. It was just a weird observation. Anti-feminists are so sensitive and perceive everything as an attack.

[@Line...]

I read Switzerland and was really confused for a minute lol

[@ianrclose5752]

In the UK, both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own designs seperate from the designs used by the Bank of England. It causes issues for people travelling to England, particularly the south, from these areas. One thing I love about Northern Irish money is that over there they've allowed Danske Bank (which is a Danish bank) to print pounds, meaning the UK technically allows a foreign bank to print its money.

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

I didn't know that, xD

[@JJMcCullough]

Ian R Close Who's on the Northern Irish money? Iain Paisley?

[@ianrclose5752]

J.J. McCullough heavens no half of them would kick off at that. Some of them just have depictions of "a typical northern Irish person". There's one with George Best too, and then a few with various "sirs" on. None have the Queen.

[@maitiu9895]

Depends on the bank printing them. Ulster Bank uses images of local landmarks like the Giant's Causeway, Queens University and even (yes, playing to stereotypes) Bushmill's Whiskey distillery. There is as Ian R Close said the George Best pounds which are seen as a sort of collectors note but it's rare to get a note in NI which isn't a Ulster Bank note.

[@JJMcCullough]

Interesting! I don't know much about NI, I realize.

[@ozvulcan]

Interesting fact, the 'plastic' (polymer) bank notes were originally developed in Australia. Ours seem to be much more durable though as you can't tear them even when scrunching them up as JJ did with the Canadian note.

[@samlauer8855]

If it means anything I have a 100 trillion Zimbabwe bank note but unfortunately it's worthless now

[@nellinecronje6911]

I lost mine! I used to offer it to sales reps who wanted to sell me useless crap.

[@ua6364]

Can I please have it?

[@pugpug8521]

Chargers Hackenberg ye there just about worth 40 us cents but some people sell them in ebay 20-50 dollars

[@ua6364]

it says you have no content.

[@brandonn.410]

Chargers Hackenberg Yeah, I have 50 Million Z$

[@adeebighani3976]

I'm doing a massive road trip Smoke report: Alberta : meh, not bad Washington : quite a lot but not very bad BC : I LITTERALLY CANT EVEN GO OUTSIDE WTF

[@JJMcCullough]

Adeeb Ighani I know it's awful eh

[@slammy333]

let's all just be glad we dont live in kamloops

[@StephanBouthot]

I do... :/

[@anasshah1350]

+Slammy333 please see my currency collection channel all about hobby

[@varrynowis896]

I live in Washington.

[@MisterBrickFilms]

Being myself a numismatist it's quite hard to choose amongst all the interesting things I can say about my own collection! But here are a few nice ones: - My smallest bill (7.3 x 3.2 cm) is Chinese and dates from 1975. All that is written in the corner is "0.1" without any denomination: that's because it was used for food rationing and thus was literally worth 0.1 kg of rice! - Another small bill (8.9 x 4.1 cm) is a Hong Kong banknote from 1961 only worth... 1 cent. It's only printed on one side, just as if it was from a Monopoly board game! - I have a second note printed on one side: 50,000,000 German marks from 1923, from that famous period of inflation when money became worthless. - My biggest bill is also German: it's a 1000 mark from 1910 and is 18.7 x 10.9 cm... - The oldest is one of the first European banknotes: 15 French sols from 1792! - Finally a funny design and I'll stop there: I've got 1 Indian rupee banknote from 1980... depicting a 1 rupee coin from 1980. Should have thought about that!

[@andakuz]

You should totally do a collab with Geography Now!!

[@mobilebananas7278]

Nyes

[@Alxon79]

NiZhenBang Nice

[@JJMcCullough]

NiZhenBang I love that channel!

[@trentonfeltz610]

that would totally awesome

[@charliemurphy3281]

He wants to go to Canada this year as part of the 150 year celebrations, make it happen!

[@guaposneeze]

I suddenly feel like there could easily be a whole channel dedicated to money. Not like an Economics channel -- just literally the paper banknotes and metal coins. Who the people are, what the stories are behind the designs, how they are manufactured in different places, etc.

[@betty1347]

There is actually

[@betty1347]

There is actually

[@LucyXuCovers]

Check out Half Asleep Chris

[@ΑιμίλιοςΦαρρούκου]

@@betty1347 what is it called

[@N-N_Collectables]

Me! 😁

[@jakobgroenen]

When I was 11. I moved from Washington state to Alberta. And for the fist couple of months I was there, I was obsessed with collecting the money,

[@luxeproultimate360]

My grand father still has some Reichmarks from the German occupation, I wonder what would happen if you bring those to Israel

[@aj1milan]

Luc Groshens lol

[@stefane4581]

Lol just dont

[@brandonn.410]

Luc Groshens lol

[@jaojao1768]

Luc Groshens that's really cool! My dad used to have some stamps of Hitler and von Hindenburg

[@Logan-nf1wl]

Luc Groshens 😂😂😂

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

"its super hot here in Canada!!" *22 degrees celsius in Vancouver* Bitch, thats cute😂 and rather cold! /Aussie from Cairns, Queensland

[@prytooblack]

You should try the 42°C at 98% humidity in Belém, BR

[@aj1milan]

Keep talking we have that 50 celsius in dubai.

[@imrustyokay]

When you're an American and still use Fahrenheit.

[@disoriented1]

I know...I still have to google the converter!...but 22C is only 71F..so..sweltering?..either my conversion or my U.S. English is faulty!

[@harrycheng9348]

Yeaaahhhhh MAAAATTEEE!!!!!!!

[@Gunnarof11B3]

3:07 "Now how bout this bill from Denmark, it has, a fish." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Dom-zx3lg]

New Zealand's new $20 bill is literally an insult to our dear queen!!

[@thomasmolinaro4509]

Dom831 hmm?

[@mirrekku]

I'm from Europe, especially from Czech Republic and we are in the EU but we still haven't accepted euros, we still have crowns 🙂🙂

[@NewDawnReaper]

Good job, qept your monetary sovereignty, greetings from Greece

[@mirrekku]

@@NewDawnReaper yeah you’re right, but at the same time, i kind of feel some sort of oppression towards us by the eu

[@richarddellhouse1368]

J.J, I hope you have success in collecting more foreign money and I hope when you have assembled an ever bigger collection, that you showcase it. I also love your channel :D

[@JJMcCullough]

the gopnik Aw thank you!

[@richarddellhouse1368]

J.J. McCullough np and good luck fighting off the humidity lol

[@3amShreddedCheese]

also Australian coins have a side shot of the queen on them

[@jjc.2102]

What.

[@wesleynishi6081]

My favourite bill is the old 100 South Korean hwan note issued in 1962. It was in circulation for only a short amount of time. It has a mother and her son holding a bankbook. I like the fact that it has a normal everyday person depicted on the banknote. Additionally, a Korean newspaper a few years back tracked down the mother and son. Unfortunately, the bill was only in circulatiom for a few months.

[@foxloaf8843]

"and then finally brink of death nonagenarian on this current bill from canada"

[@dylansawyer2306]

She doesn't want to die becuase shes afraid to meet Princess Diana

[@awhatnow9861]

2:18 Israel also had vertical portraits on all second series bills, though the currently used third series and the previous first series were horizontal

[@jmr9867]

Your money collection just absolutely destroys mine 😂😂

[@asebeleketo1466]

3:33 a machete a day keep colonials away

[@tomasveras2175]

Lol so funny

[@peterb8470]

I think we all know who’s on every bill in North Korea

[@ghandithesupremeleader9740]

Nucc boi

[@nevreiha]

Why have money when you can give all of your goods to state in exchange for all or the very much real plentiful food.

[@YouCuberHD]

@@benwark4204 bruh

[@Ogarcam]

Surprisingly, many of the north Korean banknotes don't have pictures of the Kim's, and they only have pictures of Kim IL Sung, not the current dictator

[@gurkhbanan]

In Sweden, we have death on our 200kr bill. The main theme is the famous director Ingemar Bergman, and in the background you can see the character "the death" sitting on a rock!

[@roopeharju9662]

Sweden is gay #perkele

[@thinuka9057]

You'll find Sri Lankan banknotes also have vertical bank notes. But i guess we only have the note vertical on one side. For some reason the other side is horizontal on all the notes.

[@jjpki4654]

The old Dutch banknotes are absolutely the most attractive and certainly it has the most technology too. I love the Netherlands.

[@TimHornerWOP]

Love the shirt - no U.S. flag in the background, but still managed to fit one in! ;-) Greetings from one of your yank neighbors!

[@troodon1096]

You can go back even further than that with Queen Elizabeth II; her first appearance on currency was in 1935 in Canada on a $20 note, when she was just a 9 year old princess and her grandfather George V was king. (I sadly do not have this bill in my collection as it's quite expensive even in well circulated condition, but I'm sure you can find an image of it online easily enough.)

[@daisymorphew5868]

Australia made the “plastic” dollar🇦🇺 Btw I live in the land down under Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi oi oi!

[@thegalvean2220]

Money from aroon the world.

[@ByddinRhyddidCymru]

We've got plastic £5 notes in Britain now, they're bringing in plastic £10 ones soon as well; also on our £20 notes we have a picture of the queen on one side and a guy called Adam Smith on the other and in my 19 years of life I've never met one person who knows who Adam Smith is or why he's on our money

[@Miquelalalaa]

Mukhtar Ahmed You're not British

[@h3nder]

They should add football players from the 60s

[@ArellanoAgriculture]

Mukhtar Ahmed I want a Winston Churchill bill so bad

[@ByddinRhyddidCymru]

Chunk Ogre yes I am, I was born in Liverpool

[@joelmyers-burton741]

Adam smith is the father of capitalism fucking idiot, he was a scot, that's why he's on our money

[@jesusgonzalez6715]

When I was in Nicaragua my co-volunteers and I had this thing about "visiting the money" you see, the then current series had concrete locations on each bill. The C$10 (yes that is the way Nicaraguans abbreviate their currency) had El Castillo on it, the C$20 had the Caribbean Coast, the C$50 had Canyon de Somoto, the C$100 had a monument to Ruben Darío (to be found in León) the C$200 had Ometepe and the C$500 had the birth house of Augusto C Sandino. This series has since been replaced, but the new series seems to go with the "tourism" motive, too. Funny thing about Nicaraguan money back then was that the tener and the twenty were always polymer, the fifty most of the time, the hundred never, the two hundred always and the five hundred never...

[@MaxMeadows326]

Hey JJ. Love the videos. Could you do a short one on the Canadian penny rounding? I heard Canada got rid of the penny a few years back and I think the US should do the same.

[@admagnificat]

This is a wonderful video. Thank you for all of your hard work in putting it together!

[@fukmachups1876]

Seeing money being teared before my eyes tears my heart.

[@eaubert1]

Switzerland has actually introduced new 10, 20 and 50 franc bills. So the 10 and 20 franc bills you show in the video are outdated. Ironically, they have replaced people (Le Corbusier and Arthur Honegger) with Swiss things (the Gotthard Base Tunnel and the Locarno Film Festival). The weirdest bank notes I've ever paid with were the Uzbek Som. They depict buildings in the capital Tashkent, but only come in the denominations of 1000, 2000 and 5000 Som. Problem is: 2000 Som are the equivalent to 1 USD. So, every time you pay the bill at a restaurant, you end up leaving a whole pile of money on the table and the waiter will count the money for about two minutes!

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

Etienne Aubert kind of funny how france doesn't use the franc anymore, but switzerland does

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

@@TrigramThunder that's pretty cool

[@robinpayne125]

The CHF1000 bill has also been replaced, I hear it was made a bit smaller allowing an extra stack to fit in a standard bank safe deposit box. No doubt that gives a clue as to the main use of a Swiss thousand frank bill

[@seaotter4439]

Wait, pretty sure the Swiss francs also have to do with themes, like light, water, matter, nature, etc

[@imagy27]

Im not swiss. But I would be proud of the saint-gothard base tunnel.

[@AlexandersLostTomb]

So far...You are the best I've seen yet. When I show my collection, I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed what you have shown. Best to you and yours.

[@yank-tc8bz]

I remember the Italian Lire from the 60s it was huge. You had to fold in 1/4 to fit in your wallet.

[@Dixketl]

When I saw the vertical Switzerland bills it remembered me that also Mexico made a vertical bill to commemorate the 200 years independence of the country in 200 mexican pesos bill.

[@chrisgivestricks1810]

I recently went to Honduras to see my family and I collected all the Honduran Lempiras and my way back I also collected Mexican Pesos

[@catchmushrooms8748]

I spoke with some friends about this just yesterday! It is a good thing to collect money from another countries, it makes you think with an open minded perspective about the power governments give to this pieces of paper/plastic (love the swis way!)

[@CorollaLvr2000]

I have a bill from Czechoslovakia and several coins in defunct European currency. If you're interested, they're yours JJ.

[@NoHandleToSpeakOf]

Here in Ukraine around 1990-1991 we had a special sort of money that were nothing more than a sheet of paper divided into rectangles with denominations in them. You cut out the individual rectangles as you needed but those money were good only for one month. You were given new sheets of different color or geometric pattern next month. There was no other counterfeiting measures. Those were rough times.

[@ff_crafter]

3:33 best looking money

[@johnsmith-qn2gd]

Here's something you _might_ enjoy: I have no idea if you care about cons, but euro coins have different tails depending on the country or event they were issued for. There's a lot of them, too.

[@xsythe3290]

Indonesia's money design changed in December 2016, it's not that design anymore.

[@malvoliomaximillian2001]

xѕʏтнε but you can still use the old one

[@thallesbragalopesdearaujo9126]

I also collect money from around the world. One fact about the money from Brazil, where I live, is that our money is colourful and have animals on it. The R$2 bill has sea turtles, R$5 has a heron, R$10 has a macaw, R$20 has a monkey, R$50 has a jaguar, R$100 has fish and R$200 has a wolf. We also used to have R$1 bills with hummingbirds.

[@TheGlobetrottersCollection]

Thats cool, I dont have any bills from Brazil, But they really look nice

[@SkaCorePunker]

The smoke is reaching us in Oregon!

[@thomass.6833]

My eyes are burning!!!!

[@JJMcCullough]

Woah

[@darioguerra3065]

There was tons of smog in Seattle, at Sunset it turned into an orange and purple sky with a red disc for a sun, pretty neat.

[@maxis2k]

In Oregon. Can confirm. Also been having 105 degree days.

[@SkaCorePunker]

Maximum Borkdrive I'm in Bend half the time, and Corvallis. It's been ridiculous in the valley lately, finally cooling down

[@thomasclark4528]

Enjoyed your video! I am completing a unit on the "value" of money with my middle schoolers and am going to include your vid. I think the kids will enjoy learning some random facts about moolah. Thanks =) Tom

[@JoanHolloway1931]

The new Australian $5 bill is so beautiful! It only came out last year and yes..... Queen Elizabeth is on there too 😂 I can happily mail you one if you like?

[@JJMcCullough]

Lachlan McKay yes plz

[@JoanHolloway1931]

J.J. McCullough If you message me a address I'll gladly do that for you

[@ArellanoAgriculture]

Lachlan McKay do you have any more? I can pay you for one I'm trying to get some European banknotes and Australian banknotes thanks!

[@thevannmann]

That hag should be replaced by someone AUSTRALIAN.

[@johnathangregg9660]

Lachlan McKay sure I want one

[@pouyazadutube]

Hello JJ. It is not a group of angry gun holding guys on the Iranian money, they are volunteers who helped liberate the port of Khorramshahr after Iraq invaded it. It is an important event in the country’s history and even people who don’t like the current regime cherish Khorramshahr liberation since it was done with great sacrifices and relatively empty hands versus the Iraqi army which was backed by every superpower back then.

[@kingdomoffreshlandgov7315]

3:12 His Hand

[@tomney4460]

I actually have a North Korean 50 Won note. My dad is a chef, and one of his customers was a German student doing ecology work in the US. He liked the food, and told the waiter he had a tip for the chef. He then handed him a North Korean note and the waiter gave it to my dad, and he gave it to me.

[@thoriqulfathony01]

3:40 THIS is the legend of money in Indonesia

[@Kameliius]

The coins of our old money, before we changed to the Euro, the 'Schilling' were really strange. On the backyard you had an real cool looking design with the words: 'Republik Österreich', which translates to 'Republic of Austria'.

[@mattworman1]

Also its not a bill, but the Hong Kong 2 Dollar coin is really cool.

[@vonPeterhof]

I remember when they first introduced the Kazakhstani tenge banknotes when I grew up there they went from 1 to 100 and had portraits of notable figures in Kazakh history, with the 1 tenge note having the one with the most dubious links to Kazakhstan - the mediæval philosopher Al-Farabi (he was born long before the Kazakhs were defined as an ethnic group, and his actual place of birth and cultural background are disputed). Then, as inflation kicked in, they had to start adding bigger and bigger banknotes, eventually stopping at 10,000, and instead of coming up with new people to put on them they'd just reuse the Al-Farabi portrait. Also, in the late nineties they introduced coins going up to 100 tenge, which gradually displaced the smaller banknotes, meaning that in the early 2000s the only face you'd see on the banknotes actually in use was Al-Farabi. When I'd show the tenge banknotes abroad people would ask "Is this what your dictator looks like?" :D Apparently in 2006, shortly after my family left Kazakhstan they introduced a whole new series of banknotes, which dispensed with human faces entirely... although they do all feature President Nazarbayev's handprint.

[@Bluey]

3:19 They're the country with the highest or the second highest murder rate

[@DRG342]

Thank you for this informative video. Love to collect and hard to find good in-depth content. Truly, with a great mustache comes great responsibility.

[@Mattdewit]

Are there any countries who also have nicknames for almost all their money? Because The Dutch gulden used to have quite some. Too bad we don't have nicknames for the euro (at least not in the Netherlands). Although some people still say dubbeltje and stuiver. Here is a list of the Gulden nicknames. 1 cent - Spie 5 cents - Stuiver 10 cents - Dubbeltje (still used with euros) 25 cents - Kwartje 1 Gulden - Piek 1,5 Gulden - Daalder 2,5 Gulden - Rijksdaalder 5 Gulden - Bas 10 Gulden - Joetje 25 Gulden - Geeltje 50 Gulden - Zonnebloem 100 Gulden - Meier 250 Gulden - Vuurtoren 1000 Gulden - Rooie rug Let me know if your country has or had them. Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@bennypenny2002]

Matthias de Wit i

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

Very interresting, I didn't know it about your country, but the USA has also some nicknames,: 1 cent: cent, penny 5 cent: nickel 10 cent: dime 25 cent: quater

[@JJMcCullough]

There were old nicknames in the US no on uses much anymore... like I think "sawbuck" was 10 dollars. "Shinplaster" was something....

[@bumpin9086]

fiver, tenner, 20 quid, 50 quid (UK slang)

[@themandan4000]

Onkel Jajus Bahn there are also people that call American money by the President's or Statesmen printed on them. Example Benjamin's for hundreds and some folks say Lincoln's for pennies and 5 dollar bills.

[@inonehand]

French Colonial money from Vietnam is amazing. Huge bills with various farm or bamboo bridge scenes in it. Absolutely nutty, and still pretty cheap on E-bay.

[@ambardutta4564]

north Korea must also be included

[@ivanmand123]

No politics whatsoever, but I have many of them (North Korean money), though I have none for the 2009 series.

[@egorence2149]

wait THERE IS NONE

[@SomeBritishGal1]

Does North Korea have currency? Or at least any in circulation? Being a communist nation 'n all.

[@TrigramThunder]

@@SomeBritishGal1 Yes, they do. I, too, was surprised the first time I learned. I just thought they'd trade in US dollars like Ecuador or Zimbabwe do. But then again, to them USA is the devil lol. IDK maybe euros

[@emrefifty5281]

@@SomeBritishGal1 Yes,they use the north korean won and its really cool they have faces of kim song il on it

[@albertkraglmusic]

The Nicaraguan assassin was definitely my favourite one!

[@Prouser2024]

Lenin's pic on 50 rouble bill USSR.1961

[@TGBCH]

Great video, great collection thank you for sharing :)

[@wrathmaster1681]

I have a 1000 peso Bill from Cuba 1950

[@airplaneplustrainguy8143]

6th level of irony what people is on the money

[@raulcarrera3087]

Nice video, now I know I’m not the only one crazy about foreign paper money, I started collecting 32 years ago and now I’m very proud of my collection I have paper money from every single country in the world 😃😃😃

[@that1niceguy246]

(About) how many banknotes did you collect yet? I'm currently at 48.

[@Mr._Lechkar]

"Brink of death nonagenarian" HOW DARE YOU.

[@EvanC0912]

I'd love to mail the newest edition bills of my country to you. Where should I send them to? Got a PO Box?

[@JJMcCullough]

email me at [e-mail] and I will let you know!

[@TheMuslimdon]

J.J. McCullough hey jj would you like some bills from the republic of somaliland an internationally unrecognised self declared state in the Horn of Africa btw love the channel

[@sid3616]

JJ is afraid to say his address over the internet because the crazy Canadian Nationalists will come and throw him off a skyscraper.

[@rabbanirameez5695]

I totally love your accent and those big mustache. They kind of mismatch and that makes your videos amusing :)

[@rds7516]

4:59 omg that's kind of disrespectful lmao

[@Claro1993]

That’s just a morbid sense of humor for how long she has been as a queen.

[@chef1arjunaidi]

JJ! You have a knack for presenting facts in a fun way! Keep it up!

[@thegermanguy6129]

you living in canada why you show canadian money as forgein currency ?€£¥₩$

[@thegermanguy6129]

because british columbia is in canada

[@pastelasmr8694]

You can't make a video about currency without putting your country's

[@Sofft123]

Venezuelan money is also vertical like Switzerland's. It's also VERY colorful and features a really diverse group of historical people on the front of each bill and an animal that is native to the country on the back of each bill.

[@saif8225]

There are new New Zealand 🇳🇿 Notes

[@marcodiepold2065]

Insane Dosage I like the 10$ most

[@vast_bluesky4160]

BTW the reason polymer (plastic) money exists is because paper bills are easier to counterfeit. The pioneers of polymer money is australia where they had a big problem with counterfeit paper bills

[@_pruna]

In România we have banknotes made from nylon/plastic, and they are called "Lei", that means "lions" 🦁

[@kelsograb]

Mexico! It changes its currency design quite a bit. There are probably 3 versions of the 500 pesos bill floating around right now, a couple of the 200 peso bills. And we commonly use two different versions of the 50 cent coin. The 200 pesos bill had Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (a nun who was famous for her poetry), but that was recently replaced by an image of two of the fathers of the Mexican independence. During the 200th anniversary of independence they also made a vertical bill (I think was was 200 pesos), but that was only made for 1 year.

[@TsukiCondor]

Do you own any of the Zimbabwe trillion dollar bills 😏

[@sapturnus]

Let me be a little parochial here: I love Brazilian money bills. They have a colourful and minimalistic design and, specially, because they don't show people, but iconic animals.

[@dougsvlogs2127]

I don't remember when exactly I got it, but while checking out a customer at work she had some coins on the counter and one of them was a 5 pesewa coin from Ghana. She didn't know how she got it either, so she let me have it. One of my favorite collectibles.

[@mabdulmateen]

“Brink of death”😂😂

[@bobmcfartsons4892]

J.J. mentions that a bunch of countries have plastic notes but casually brushes over Australia, who first introduced them.

[@uncledadcan]

2:15 = 2:20, Canada currently has a $10 bill that is printed the same way as Switzerland's money. They may change other Canadian currency in the same manner.

[@williamfuller1170]

My grandpa joined the navy during WWII and he got some Japanese money. The interesting thing about it is that it wasn’t Japanese at all and that it was Filipino (he had died before I got it so it took a while to figure out). The money was used in the Philippines while under Japanese occupation. It states, “The Japanese Government” and under that is states, “Fifty Centavos.” I’m not sure why it is in English and not Filipino. It has an illustration on it but it’s very blurry.

[@thejamesthird]

That guilder note took me right back to my childhood in NL haha

[@ganapatikamesh]

Awesome! A fellow numismatist as well as a fellow vexillologist!!! Always like knowing others find this stuff fascinating and collect, too. My collection started when I was 10 with a Canadian quarter given to me by a great aunt after she visited. From there I had friends and family who gave me other coins and bills as well as penpals, too. A teacher, who went to write down languages in central Africa, even gave me some bills from the Belgian Congo...so it combined history with my fascination with numismatics. All of these folks also helped with vexillology, too. :-)

[@xyanmatus]

It is an interesting fact about money in Cuba. They have 2 currencies - for tourists and for local people. Local money have images with faces (comandante for example) and tourists' money have images with building.

[@santidiedrich]

Argentinian ones are pretty, actually now they're three different designs circulating... the second ones and the ones with animals are the prettiest. Reais from Brazil are colorful and beautiful too. And Chile has plastic bills too, so does Uruguay with the new 50 pesos bill.

[@hannah.b_765]

I’m an American, but when I was younger Publix (a popular grocery store chain in Florida) gave out promotional “Santa dollars” during Christmas. It was a $1 but instead of George Washington, there was a picture of Santa on it. I’m told you could only use them at Publix, but I don’t know that for sure because it was so long ago. And yes I know you can’t use them anywhere else since it’s not real currency.

[@mikey8915]

it has...a fish! 😂😂😂 I had to pause to laugh there 😂

[@ntokozodubase]

Point of correction. The women on the other side if the Swaziland banknote are not the king's wives but ordinary maidens participating in an important Swazi cultural ceremony called the Umhlanga Ceremony.

[@jimmybob4183]

I feel you man here in SoCal it's been like 100 - 110 Fahrenheit lately it's torture.

[@centredoorplugsthornton4112]

Venezuela's bolivar bills are printed vertically on the front and horizontally on the back, per remarks about Switzerland's vertical banknotes.