2023 Banknote Acquisition

2023 Banknote Acquisition

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2022 Banknote Acquisition

2022 Banknote Acquisition

New issues to Best of Banknotes are displayed below.  These banknotes are not necessarily new issues, but new to Best of Banknotes website.  Hope you enjoy and comment on any of them. Click on the plus sign to open and view. North America South AmericaAfrica Europe Middle East Asia Oceania
Nikola Tesla inventor engineer out of this world

Nikola Tesla inventor engineer out of this world

Nikola Tesla greatest inventor of all time. Nikola Tesla a Croatian born inventor from the mid 1800’s. He was a genius, an electrical, mechanical engineer, a trailblazer who was best known for his improvement to the  modern alternating current (AC) supply in terms of electricity. His place of birth was the old Austrian Empire, which…

Pallas Athena Greek Deity Symbol of Wisdom
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Pallas Athena Greek Deity Symbol of Wisdom

Pallas Athena Greek Deity Symbol of Wisdom, Warfare and Craft Athena or known as Pallas, is an ancient Greek deity (goddess) related with warfare, wisdom, and craft.  She also became distinguished with the Roman goddess Minerva.  Athena was attributed as the protector of  Greece, in particular, the city of Athens, from which her name is…

Sebastián de Benalcázar Conquistador in 10 sucres Ecuador Banknote

Sebastián de Benalcázar Conquistador in 10 sucres Ecuador Banknote

Sebastián de Benalcázar Born in 1480, in Córdoba, Spain.  He was also known as Sebastián de Belalcázar, a Spanish conquistador (or conqueror). He is attributed to be the instituter of early colonial cities in South America, the northwestern areas.  Such as Quito, Ecuador in 1534 and Cali, Pasto, Popayán, Colombia in 1537. Benalcazar led explorations…

Ishtar, Inanna, a mythological deity woman with horns and wings
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Ishtar, Inanna, a mythological deity woman with horns and wings

Queen of Heaven Ishtar, Queen of the night also known as Inanna was considered as the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, sexual desire, conflict, war, justice, and power. She was revered by the old Mesopotamian land, that was part of Iraq. The Babylonians, Assyrians named this deity as Ishtar. In astrological terms, she was…

Hungarian Saint Stephen; Szent István Kereszt Lorraine Cross adopted
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Hungarian Saint Stephen; Szent István Kereszt Lorraine Cross adopted

The widely recognized Lorraine Cross is a Cross with an upper bar and mid section bar, symobolically similar to the crucifixion cross (or Latin cross) as it is known. Normally, this cross is without a corpus (no body affixed to it). This cross is also a symbolical form of a patriarchy. In Hungary, it considered…