Watching you tear that $20 bill lowkey broke my heart

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.

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

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.

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

You should totally do a collab with Geography Now!!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Seeing money being teared before my eyes tears my heart.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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 🙂🙂

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,

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

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

3:33 a machete a day keep colonials away

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.

Your money collection just absolutely destroys mine 😂😂

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

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

Money from aroon the world.

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

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.

3:12 His Hand

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!

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

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

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.

3:33 best looking money

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The smoke is reaching us in Oregon!

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.

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...

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!

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

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!)

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.)

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

3:40 THIS is the legend of money in Indonesia

Great video, great collection thank you for sharing :)

The Nicaraguan assassin was definitely my favourite one!

north Korea must also be included

In Hungary, the largest inflation in the world happened ater WW2 (10^26%), so the largest pengő bill was worth a 100 trillion pengős.

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

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.

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

I'm half-Bermudian... we have some weird money

I'm loving that shirt!

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. :-)

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

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?

man i love your videos

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.

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

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

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

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

Lenin's pic on 50 rouble bill USSR.1961

I went to North Korea in 2015 and got some North Korean Won with Kim Il-Sung on in. Still carry it around in my wallet!

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.

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.

I have a 1000 peso Bill from Cuba 1950

4:59 omg that's kind of disrespectful lmao

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 😃😃😃

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.

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.

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

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'.

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.

There are new New Zealand 🇳🇿 Notes

Do you own any of the Zimbabwe trillion dollar bills 😏

how!!! do you have so few view?! this channel is a gem! Eastern Caribbean Money is pretty interesting as well. as the queen and images of most of the islands on them.

Thanks for making this video. I love the Pound currency followed by the Euro.

Thanks for Indonesian currency shoutout!

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

2:13 Wow that money is old they used it until 20 years ago. It was so cheap I remember buying a bike paying a bag full money

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.

Where's the peso?

Finally one of his vids have some thing about belize

Kristen Flagstad (who was an opera singer featured on the 100NOK bill) was replaced with a viking ship this year. And the 200kr bill in Norway used to feature the physicist Kristian Birkeland until quite recently. But this year he was replaced with a cod.

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

Super cool. I want to have my own Japanese yen collection someday.

I’m just marathoning your videos for some reason.

2:16 Cool. Canada did this too now though.

Like the collection