I received some foreign currency today and was just wondering more about them? Do they have any value, where do they come from and what kind of purchasing power do they have in their own country? First are what I believe to be Brazilian currency? and also they say on the very bottom of the note Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited, London. Why? Second is this note i have no idea what or where this kind of note comes from???
That's the company that printed the notes. Lebanon was formerly under French control and still uses the French version of the country's name as an alternative to the Arabic version seen on the other side. With the "CCCP", which is the Cyrillic version of "USSR", it is clearly Soviet Union currency (technically not "Russian") Currency is commonly dated the year a particular series is authorized, rather then the year a bill is printed. I don't know enough about Soviet currency to say what the date range is for the 1961 series. All of your currency is pretty common, so it's of nominal value unless it's still valid, in which case it's worth face at an exchange rate you can find at www.xe.com
Looks like they are Pick 176, issued from 1962-64. Unless I've got it wrong, that Lebanese note is Pick 55, quite a nice note, from 1964 as well. That should be in a holder kept flat. Dave
The currency of USSR was printed from 1961 until 1991, and they were all marked with same year of first issue, 1961. The next time it changed was in 1991. The new 1991 series have also had slightly changed design. 1 ruble 1961 in this condition is quite cheap, in the $1 area, usually less.
(for the Lebanon note) My copy of Pick shows $8 in VF, $40 in Unc. That copy looks like XF to me, so somewhere between. Dave
In Unc, the catalog lists $0.75 each, which is pretty much "hand them out to friends at bars" value... Dave
Found some bank notes and need some information as to what was found. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Brenda Leflerbrenda@gmail.com
