Updated
March 31, 2003
The 'Harden' banknote collection
An enquiry before my November 2002 trip regarding the GTS Gambia money collection got me into collecting bank notes most weeks of my visit
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The notes are not to scale and are scanned at a low resolution for obvious reasons.
Some have had the contrastmanipulated to show them better at this resolution
The Harden family is very kindly making a donation to GTS - which will go into the safe house project fund.
I will be including some links to specialised banknote sites for those of you caught with the bug of collecting bank notes.
If you know other good sites specially for African currency - please let me know
My enormous thanks to the Hardens, who hav been so patient waiting for this note collection
Today is the 31st March and the second day that the UK has moved forward to British Summer time, which means we suddenly get light evenings and jump an hour ahead of Gambia which stays on Grennwich meantime all throughout the year.
Comments to GTS
Apart from the 5 Gambian notes, GTS managed to collect notes from 10 other African countries, several notes from some, just singles from others.
The thumb nails here are of the notes collected.
Where the there is more than one note, the text indicates this and clicking
on the thumbnail opens a page showing the additional notes.
Some are really beautiful and I'm now quite addicted to the pursuit that has taken me around the money changers of the Gambia. If anyone can provide any information about the notes, the images shown on them etc - I would love to add that to the relevant site pages
Guinee - 25, 100, 500 & 1000 Cents (4 notes)
Ghana - 5000 Cedis
A new note printed in 2001, showing Ghana's timber trade and shipping
Guinea Equatorial - 5000 Francs
Probably
my favorite note in the set
Kenya - 50 & 100 Shillings ( 2 Notes )
Morocco - 20 Dirhams
A celebration of ancient Islamic designs
Saudi Arabia - 10 Riyals
No mistaking the product that has made Saudi Arabia rich, with an Oil
platform on the front and oil refinery on the reverse
Senegal - 500, 1,000, 10,000 Francs ( 3 Notes )
Gambia's
closest neighbour surrounds them on 3 sides
South Africa - 10 Rand
I love
this note with the Rhino on the Front and super ram on the back
Nigeria - 50 Naira
Another very
beautiful note farming front, faces on the reverse
Sierra Leone - 2 & 20 Leones (2 Notes)
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