Sentences with phrase «first banknotes»

Ever since the first banknotes were printed cash has played a critical role in the way society functions, and the evolution of money has reflected the ever - accelerating growth in technology.

Ever since the first banknotes were printed cash has played a critical role in the way society functions, and the evolution of money has reflected the ever - accelerating growth in technology.

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THE first batch of banknotes printed in Australia is expected to fetch up to $ 5.5 million in what will be the largest sale of its kind in Australia's history.

In the United Kingdom, all banknote issuers including the Bank of England were private before the First World War.

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The note is the first British banknote to have raised dots for the blind and partially sighted.

But Zuo is the first to analyze foreign banknotes for contamination and the first to employ a new method of gas chromatography, which detects the chemical signature of the drug without damaging the actual money, to do the analysis.

TORONTO — Famous Five activist Nellie McClung is the No. 1 choice to become the first Canadian woman on the face of one of the country's banknotes, according to a recent online survey.

TORONTO — Viola Desmond, often described as Canada's Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites - only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre, will be the first woman to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote.

While it's the first time a woman other than the Queen has been on the face of a Canadian banknote, the Famous Five suffragettes, along with Casgrain, were featured on the back side of a $ 50 bill unveiled in 2004.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada has announced its shortlist of five women contending to be the first Canadian female on the face of a banknote, and online favourite Nellie McClung is not among them.

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed, which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the values of # 1 and 10 / -(ten shillings).

In 1960 he moved to San Francisco and began work on his first images of banknotes and in 1961 he moved to Los Angeles.

In 1972, he showed his first exhibit at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), the same year he designed a set of banknotes for the Treasury.