Identifying currency from countries using foreign scripts / cyrillic?

I have a bunch of notes, some of which I have bought from sets on the web, some of which I was given, which come from countries such as those from eastern european using cyrillic (i.e. russian) alphabet as their main script.

I would like to know if there is a guide somewhere that can help identify / translate the country names such that I can identify the notes origin. I have a fair amount so scanning and posting each one would be prohibitively lengthy.

Cheers and thanks for the help!

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Right after posting this I found the following link which has a cyrillic reference, which should help. I'd still be grateful to learn if there are other resources which are currency focused!

http://www.banknotes.com/cyrillic.htm

 

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I keep this link http://nensberg.tripod.com/home.html with pictures of Russian paper money - unfortunately the site looks abandoned and many links are broken...

 

Why not post pics here on the site and let us have a go at it :high5:

 

Ditto!! Try photobucket.com to post your images

 

Had the same problem

I have been in this same situation. From my point of view, it all looks alike. What really helped me was looking at the other clues a banknote gives away. Such as buildings or people. Also I used the database on col nect to help me.

 

Perhaps create a phonetic primer of the Cyrillic 32 letter alphabet to the Latin alphabet, then sound it out? IMO the Cyrillic alphabet isn't all that difficult (but then again, I used to speak it as a 2nd language when I was a kid.)

 

I ended up finding out, by converting all of the names of countries using the cyrillic alphabet to cyrillic (using babelfish) and then looking for these strings on my note. Once I found the country it was easy to track down the exact note in the Krause book since the year is on the note.

Since a few of you seem curious I will post the note and let's see how long it takes before someone can identify it .