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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 704229, member: 12789&quot;]I would love to, but you know, there are just too many countries in my collection and I have so many notes that I don&#039;t even have imaged for my site that it would be impossible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus for countries like the USA, when do you say it first issued paper money, in 1690 when Massachusetts Bay first did, or in 1775 when the Continental Congress first did, or in 1815 when the Federal government first did to finance that war?&nbsp; Most people would say 1861 with the Demand Notes that were issued then - but the earlier issues have some claim to being currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>My oldest note from anywhere in the America&#039;s is from 1746 and was printed by Benjamin Franklin for the Delaware Colony.&nbsp; It is a Twenty shillings or 20/- or one pound note.&nbsp; Not the prettiest note around, colonials are basically historical only and this is the worse for wear:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/colonials/delaware20s1746fr.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/colonials/delaware20s1746fr.jpg" rel="nofollow"></a></b><img src="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/colonials/delaware20s1746fr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My daughter owns a far far older Chinese note though, she owns a 1 Kuan that was issued from 1368-1399, and that isn&#039;t even the oldest known Chinese note, the oldest known dates to the 9th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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