Gago Coutinho And Sacadura Cabral - Portuguese Aviation Pioneers

Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral, Portuguese aviation pioneers, the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air, from March to June 1922 from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro.

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Mozambique (1972) 1,000 Escudos (back) - Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho

Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho was born on 17 February 1869 in Belem (Lisboa). At age of sixteen he entered Polytechnic College to prepare for admission to the Naval Academy one year later.

Juan Ramon Jimenez - Nobel Literature 1956 (Banknote Spain)

Juan Ramon Jimenez (Moguer, Spain, 24 December 1881 – Santurce, Puerto Rico, 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. Read Feature Article


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Spain (1983) 2,000 Pesetas (front) - Portrait of Juan Ramon Jimemnez

Bjornstjerne Bjornson - Nobel Literature 1903 (Banknote Norway)

Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832 - 1910) was a Norwegian writer and a 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjornson is generally considered as one of "The Great Four" Norwegian writers. Read Feature Article


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Norway (1953) 50 Kroners (front) - Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Santiago Ramon y Cajal - Nobel Medicine 1906 (Banknote Spain)

Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 – 1934) was a Spanish histologist, physician, and Nobel laureate. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern neuroscience. Read Feature Article


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Spain (1935) 50 Pesetas (front) - Portrait of Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Bertha von Suttner - Nobel Peace 1905 (Banknote Austria)

Bertha von Suttner (1843 - 1914) was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist. She was first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and one of her famous publication was Lay Down Your Arms!). Read Feature Article


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Austria (1966) 1,000 Schillings (front) - Portrait of Bertha von Suttner

Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Medicine 1927 (Banknote Austria)

Julius Wagner-Jauregg, (1857 – 1940) was an Austrian physician. In 1917 the inoculation of malaria parasites proved to be very successful in the case of dementia paralytica and earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927. Read Feature Article

Sir Arthur Lewis - Nobel Economist 1979 (Banknote Antigua)

Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915 – 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist well known for his contributions in the field of economic development. In 1979 he won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Read Feature Article


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Antigua (1993) 100 Dollars (back) - Portrait of Air Arthur Lewis

Fridtjof Nansen - Nobel Peace 1922 (Banknote Norway)

Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. Read Feature Article

Howard Florey - Nobel Medicine 1945 (Banknote Australia)

Howard Florey was a pharmacologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the extraction of penicillin. Read Feature Article


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Australia (1994) 50 Dollars (front) Portrait of Howard Florey

World's Highest Denomination Banknote - Hungarian (1946) 100 Quintillion Pengo

The largest denomination banknote ever officially issued for circulation was in 1946 by the Hungarian National Bank for the amount of 100 quintillion pengo.......

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Hungary (1946) 100 Quintillion Pengo