Old £20 and £50 paper notes stopped being legal tender in the UK on 30 September 2022. This means you can’t use them in shops or as payment any more. However, there are still around 375 ...

June 22 is perhaps an even more consequential semiquincentennial, even if there are no re-enactors or commemorative ...

Over the last few years, €500 notes have become increasingly rare as the European Central Bank ceased printing them back in 2019. The notes are slowly being phased out, and in certain EU ...

On the Australian one dollar coin, you will often find the famous representation of a mob of five kangaroos. But when did the ...

The latest notes to be withdrawn from use are paper £20 and £50 notes, meaning people could be refused from using them from 1 October. Businesses and shops will no longer be obliged to accept ...

Currency has evolved over time, and while the earliest known paper money dates back to the Tang Dynasty in China (CE 618–907), paper notes were a relatively new concept in the Colonies when ...

But despite the potential benefits of paper money, a major problem was the risk of counterfeiting. When Franklin opened his printing house in 1728, paper bills were a relatively new concept.