What’s New in NumisMaster: September 2025 – Bank Note Edition
NumisMaster expands with nearly 400 new bank notes, clarifying the use of “r” for replacements and “s” for specimens, while keeping collectors current through 2025.
The letter "r" is commonly used by notaphilists to indicate a replacement note. It is often followed by the descriptive word "replacement" and the reason it was replaced. However, the letter "r" is also used as a normal variant, marking a slight change in a series of notes, most commonly because of a signature or date change.
The same can be said for the letter "s," which is usually reserved for specimen bank notes. As with replacement notes, the "s" is followed by the word "specimen." It is also used for variations of a bank note.
This past month, we added almost 400 bank notes to the NumisMaster database. Most were from the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo), which are labeled as "West African States" in the database. We now have 42 countries with bank notes numbered through 2024, and 13 of those are numbered through 2025.
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Photographs courtesy of PMG.
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