This is a 500 forint note from Hungary, correctly guessed by 11 out of 14 of you.
This is a 50 dinar note from Serbia, although it is described as Yugoslavia on the currency. I allow either answer; even so, it was correctly guessed by only 5 out of 12 people. (
This is a 20 pound note, in good old UK pounds sterling, issued by First Trust Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Despite the geographical bias of my friends list, only 8 out of 15 of you got this, with two guesses for Malta (where they would write in Maltese as well as English, I suspect). The six shields on the left-hand note represent the six historic counties of my native statelet.
This is a 10 denar note from the Republic of Macedonia, correctly guessed by 7 out of 12 (allowing
This proved the most difficult, with only 4 correct answers out of 13. In fact as many people opted for Algeria as for the correct answer, Lebanon. I can see why – if you are asked to think of a country that might have both French and Arabic on its banknotes, you might well try Algeria first. The diagonal white box on the image on the left was where I cut out a map which would have otherwise been a dead giveaway.
5 out of 12 correctly guessed this as a single Georgian lari. Given the unusual alphabet,
I was surprised by how difficult this was, with 4 correct answers out of 11. This is a 10 ruble note from Russia.
This is a banknote for 50 convertible marks from Bosnia and Herzegovina. 5 out of 13 got it right.
Yes, 8 out of 14 of you got this: 10 Croatian kuna. This includes
5 out of 12 of you guessed correctly that this is 10,000 manat from Azerbaijan (and I’m giving
As with the Hungarian banknote, 11 out of 14 of you got this: 5 new Turkish lira. As with Lebanon, I had to excise a map of the country here.
This note is a recent casualty of European integration: 100 Slovenian tolars replaced by the euro as of 1 January this year. 5 out of 11 got it, with, alas,
So, the final scores on the doors, in the traditional sense of who got the most answers right, are:
0
1
1
2
3
3
4
5
5
7
7¼
7
9
11
12¼
So, congratulations to
Indeed, though this is not that book, and I doubt that volume 2 will be either.