| Allied Military Currency (AMC) |
Money issued by Allied military authority (USA, UK, Russia and France) during and after the World War II in following countries: Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan. |
| Back |
the reverse side of a note. |
| Block number |
number for a run(batch) or big sequence of notes. |
| Cancellation |
mark on withdrawn notes from circulation by punch hole, perforation, cutting, overprinting, stamping or writing. |
| College currency |
imitation of notes used by schools and colleges for training and educational purpose. |
| Commemorative issue |
banknote issued to commemorate an event or a person. |
| Counterfoil |
stub paper connected to the note, retained by issuer authority for record keeping. |
| Counterfeit (forgery) |
illegal copy of note. The contemporary counterfeits were made by Governments or private persons to pass side by side with genuine notes. Modern counterfeits were made to fool collectors (it is virtually an unknown problem in paper money collecting, with exceptions of overprints, additional stamps or very poorly unsecured printed emergency notes). |
| Demonetized notes |
paper money officially withdrawn from circulation and not longer redeemable. |
| Emergency notes |
local or private notes issued under emergency condition: lack of coins, banknotes, inflation, war or political destabilization. In German called notgeld (see notgeld). |
| Face |
the front side of a note, usually with signatures and numbers. |
| Fantasy notes |
a totally invented or concocted note. |
| Japanese Invasion Money (JIM) |
paper money issued during World War II by Japan for occupied countries: Burma, Malaya, Netherlands Indies, Oceania, Philippines and Russia(not issued). |
| Local notes |
notes issued by local authorities. |
| Military Payment Certificates (MPC) |
USA military notes issued for US military personnel in overseas countries from 1946-1973. |
| Notgeld |
German emergency money (Papernotgeld -emergency paper money). Usually collected by region or type:
- emergency paper money till 1914
- emergency paper money of 1914
- POW -prisoners of the war 1914-1918 (Gefangenenlager Notgeld)
- fractional notes in pfennigs 1916-1922 (Kleingeldscheine)
- series notes issued for collectors (Serrienscheine)
- notes in marks 1918-1921 (Grossgeldscheine)
- inflation emergency paper money 1922-1923
- notes in dollars or gold standard 1923-1924 (Goldnotgeld)
- concentration camps notes(Konzentrationslager)
- emergency paper money 1945-1949 |
| Pin holes |
tiny holes made by pins or staples during old accounting process. |
| Prisoner of War (POW) notes |
notes issued for use in POW camps. |
| Private notes |
notes issued by private organization, company or person. |
| Proof |
whole or partial accepted design of note printed for propose of checking some details. |
| Propaganda notes |
usually facsimile notes printed with propaganda message, mostly during war time. |
| Remainders |
leftover original notes which were not put in to the circulation. Usually without signatures, numbers or date. |
| Russian occupation notes |
Russian issued currency for several occupied countries by Soviet "Red Army" during and after the World War II. |
| Scripophily |
study and collecting of stock certificates, bonds and fiscal documents. |
| Short Snorter |
banknote signed by soldiers(mostly during World War II), very often several notes were taped together. |
| Siege notes |
emergency money issued during a siege of city. |
| Specimens |
samples of original banknotes distributed between banks to familiarize with new designed banknotes, usually with overprints, cancellation or special numbers. Sometimes issued for collector purpose. |
| Stamp Currency |
semi-stamps, revenue or post stamps used as emergency money, usually on cardboard or in protective casing. |
| Unfinished note |
note only partially printed. |
| Validation |
handstamp, adhesive stamp, perforation etc. added to the note for new validation of currency. |
| Watermark |
pattern in the paper created during manufacturing. |
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