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There's not much in this category, but as I find them I'll add Philatelic Bureaux' online sites here....

Philatelic Bureaux

• Canada Post's home page.
• Finland Post's philatelic page.
• Postphil, the online persona of Postphil, the Iceland Post in Reykjavík. .
• Filatelia, the home page of Post Greenland.
• An Post's home page for collectors of Irish stamps.
• Postverk Føroya, the Faeroese Post Offices' philatelic service.

Some stamps from my collection:
Ireland:

• "Provisional Government of Ireland, 1922" overprints on British high-values.
• A Treatise on the stamps of the Provisional Government (more to follow!).

Some currency scans to use my free web space!:

All Central Bank of Ireland notes ceased to be legal tender on completion of the Euro changeover on 9th February 2002, but can be exchanged for Euros indefinitely at the Central Bank's head office, Dame Street, Dublin.

• Central Bank of Ireland - 5 punt note, series 1993. front and reverse.
• Central Bank of Ireland - 10 punt note, series 1993, front and reverse.
• Central Bank of Ireland - 20 punt note, series 1992, front and reverse.
• Central Bank of Ireland - 50 punt note, series 1995, front and reverse.

• Bank of England 1 pound note, series 1977-1984. front and reverse.(Sir Isaac Newton)
• Bank of England 5 pound note, series 1970-1990. front and reverse.(Wellington)
• Bank of England 5 pound note, series 1990. front and reverse .(George Stephenson).
• Bank of England 10 pound note, series 1993. front and reverse.(Charles Dickens)
• Bank of England 10 pound note, series 2000. front and reverse (Charles Darwin) - there are two versions of this note issued simultaneously, one says "© The Governor and Company of the Bank of England 2000", the other says "© Governor and Company of the Bank of England 2000"; this is one of the first type.
• Bank of England 20 pound note, series 1993. front and reverse.(Michael Faraday)
• Bank of England 20 pound note, series 1999. front and reverse (Sir Edward Elgar) (the hologram on the face shows blue on this scan, which at least proves that it works as an anti-forgery device!).

Scottish banknotes: Scottish banks have pioneered many of the now-common facilities offered by banks, and were among the first in Europe to issue banknotes. The current legal position is that thanks to bank amalgamations only the Bank of Scotland, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Clydesdale Bank are authorised to issue banknotes, and they have to hold an equivalent value at the Bank of England to the face value of the notes which they issue. In order to maintain confidence in Scottish banknotes, as a matter of principle the banks will exchange at face value any banknote ever issued in the past by any Scottish bank, including the ones which went bankrupt! (Though of course most of these notes will be worth more than face value to collectors). Strictly, Scottish banknotes are not legal tender, not even in Scotland, but are accepted through custom and practice; Scottish notes are usually accepted in England and Wales although they become rarer the further south one travels, but some businesses decline to handle them. In Scotland the only note which is legal tender is the Bank of England £1 note, which presents a nice legal conundrum as none have been issued since 1984!

• Bank of Scotland 10 pound note, 1995. front and reverse.
• Bank of Scotland 20 pound note, 1995. front and reverse.
• Clydesdale Bank 5 pound note 1997 (Robert Burns). front and reverse.
• Clydesdale Bank 10 pound note, 1997 (David Livingstone). front and reverse.
• Clydesdale Bank 10 pound note, 1998 (Mary Slessor). front and reverse.
• Clydesdale Bank 20 pound note, September 1994 (Robert the Bruce). front and reverse.
• Clydesdale Bank 20 pound note, September 1997 (Robert the Bruce/Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Edinburgh). front and reverse.
• Clydesdale Bank 20 pound note, November 1997 (Robert the Bruce, modified design). front and reverse.
• Clydesdale Bank 20 pound note, April 1999 (Alexander Thompson/Glasgow 1999 UK City of Architecture and Design). front and reverse.
• Royal Bank of Scotland 1 pound note, 1996, front and reverse.
• Royal Bank of Scotland 5 pound note, 1988. front and reverse.
• Royal Bank of Scotland 10 pound note, 1992. front and reverse.
• Royal Bank of Scotland 20 pound note, 1993. front and reverse.

States of Jersey banknotes: The States (assembly) of the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands issue their own banknotes which circulate alongside Bank of England notes on the island, although they are not accepted elsewhere in the UK.Most banks have pairs of ATMs, one of which issues Jersey currency and the other issues Bank of England notes. The States' Treasury currently holds £1.10 sterling for every £1 it issues in notes. The following examples were all taken from circulation in April 2002, and are from the series originally introduced in 1989. The front of each note depicts Queen Elizabeth II in her local capacity as Duke (the Channel Islands are the last part of the Duchy of Normandy which remained loyal to the English Crown after Philip Augustus united the rest of the Duchy with France in the early 13th Century). French currency was legal tender on the island until 1923 in addition to British currency. Between July 1940 and May 1945 the Reichsmark was legal tender in addition to locally issued sterling banknotes.

• States of Jersey £1 note 1989 (2002). front and reverse (St Helier Parish Church)
• States of Jersey £5 note 1989 (2002). front and reverse (La Corbière rock and lighthouse)
• State of Jersey £10 note 1989 (2002). front and reverse (The Death of Major Peirson, Battle of Jersey, 1781).
• States of Jersey £20 note 1989 (2002). front and reverse (St. Ouen's Manor, Parish of St. Ouen).

In February 1781 a French expedition captured Elizabeth Castle which guards the entrance to St Helier harbour and forced the Lieutenant-Governor to sign a document ceding the island to France. Major Peirson, the commander of the local troops suspected something was amiss and disobeyed his orders to hand the island to the French; in the ensuing battle in the streets of St Helier the commanders of both sides were killed but the French were successfully repulsed. Major Peirson is regarded as the national hero of Jersey, and musket marks from the battle can still be seen in the walls of the pub which is named in his honour on the Royal Square in St Helier.

• Czech National Bank 50 korun (crowns), 1994 design. front and reverse.
• Czech National Bank 50 korun, 1997 redesign (improved anti-counterfeiting devices). front and reverse.
• Czech National Bank 100 korun, 1995 redesign. front and reverse.
• Czech National Bank 100 korun, 1997 redesign (improved anti-counterfeiting devices). front and reverse.
• Czech National Bank 200 korun, 1996 redesign. front and reverse.
• Czech National Bank 200 korun, 1998 redesign (improved anti-counterfeiting devices). front and reverse.
• Czech National Bank 500 korun, 1993 design. front and reverse.
• Czech National Bank 500 korun, 1995 slight redesign, improved anti-counterfeiting devices, front and reverse

Incidentally, the 1993 versions of the 1,000 and 5,000 korun notes are no longer legal tender. They may be exchanged at any Czech bank until the end of June 2004, and at a branch of the Czech National Bank until 2010. See the CNB site for further information, and for details of the anti-counterfeiting devices on each note.

Click here for thumbnails of some of the banknotes listed above, which you can click on for the full JPEGs.

• European Central Bank 5 euro, 2002 front and reverse.
• European Central Bank 10 euro, 2002 front and reverse.
• European Central Bank 20 euro, 2002 front and reverse.
• European Central Bank 50 euro, 2002 front and reverse.
• European Central Bank 100 euro, 2002 front and reverse.

(I'm unlikely to get my hands on the 200 and 500 euro notes!). These notes were obtained from a bank in the UK on 3rd January 2002 -- the prefix letters of the serial numbers indicate that the 10 euro notes come from the Austrian printing (N) while all the other notes come from the German printing (X)... which is curious as the nearest Eurozone country to where I bought them is Ireland (T) !

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