The Bank of England issues nearly a billion banknotes each year, and withdraws almost as many from circulation.
Officials from Note Printing Australia (NPA), the printer of Australia's banknotes, had also faced similar allegations.
For cash, Greeks at first use existing euro banknotes defaced with ink or a stamp.
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The motive wasn't robbery: left untouched were stacks of banknotes and gold given by pilgrims.
All too often, however, they actually treat foreign banknotes as though they were Monopoly money.
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Accurate knowledge, and monitoring, of the population of banknotes could be a powerful tool.
In the United States in 1910, gold bullion reserve coverage was 42% of banknotes in circulation.
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Serb, Croat and Bosnian Muslim representatives spent eight months arguing about the design of banknotes.
Each Fed bank issued its own banknotes, much the way commercial banks did in the previous century.
Such smart paper could be used for banknotes, legal documents, tickets and smart labels, the team said.
The airline uncovered silver tablets in a cargo container and customs officials then found gold and banknotes.
These images are courtesy of Audrius Tomonis, dealer at the world banknote collection website, www.banknotes.com.
The lumber dealer would sell off the inventory, taking in banknotes and using them to liquidate the loan.
Polymer banknotes are printed on a non-porous plastic film, making them more durable than traditional rag-based paper bills.
Even the usually thriving black market, the bulk of the economy, was punctured by the lack of banknotes.
Yes, gold coins existed, but people mostly used paper banknotes and bank transfers, just as they do today.
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Ms Mayawati, a former primary-school teacher, is known for her love of diamonds and dalit-sized garlands of banknotes.
This left them with a shrinking amount of banknotes, and without any banks or credit cards to help.
Canada's new plastic banknotes feature Norway maple leaves, instead of the Canadian sugar maple leaf, according to botanists.
The traders simply cannot move enough banknotes around to equalise the exchange rate.
Starting on 31 July, the Malagasy Central Bank will issue new Ariary banknotes in 10, 000, 5, 000, and 2, 000 denominations.
He would have needed banknotes 300 times the height of Nelson's Column to balance the books of his empire.
This classic Outback watering hole is covered in banknotes, T-shirts and underwear donated by patrons from all over the world.
Police have issued a warning to shopkeepers after a spate of incidents where counterfeit banknotes were used in East Lothian.
The prime minister's office has spent the past month explaining that banknotes containing the numeral two are fairly common overseas.
The cash took the form of either banknotes or a credit balance at the Federal Reserve bank that held the collateral.
Federal Reserve banknotes were to be tied not to the spending habits of politicians but to the demands of commercial activity.
The 1, 901 counterfeit 200-euro banknotes were seized in an operation in the northern city of Oporto, police said in a statement.
The common arguments against packing more fivers into cash machines included the greater cost to companies that sorted and supplied banknotes.
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The distance from which tagged banknotes could be read would depend on the exact specifications of the chips that were used.
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