BanknoteArchives.com is a repository for world paper money auctions in the digital domain. Its goal is to make textual lot descriptions, images, and prices realized, available to Internet users after each auction's completion.

BanknoteArchives.com gives you free access to all auction data added to the database in the last six months. To access older data, along with advanced search tools and other improved features, you can subscribe to BanknoteArchives Pro, our service for professionals and researchers.

In the last 25 years, most of the major numismatic auction houses have begun posting online versions of their catalogs. The goal of BanknoteArchives.com is to prevent the loss of this valuable digital information by preserving and storing it for future use.

Yes, several! See the Search Tips page. The BanknoteArchives.com search engine isn't hard to use, but it is strict. Be careful when choosing your search terms, and remember that most of the database content isn't in English. See the section called "The Language Barrier" on the Search Tips page.

We don't provide identification or valuation services. If you need detailed research or require an authoritative source, you might try contacting one of our contributing firms.

No. BanknoteArchives does not sell banknotes or act as a broker. If you're interested in selling, try contacting an auctino house directly.

A certain auction must meet several requirements before we can archive it. The auction must be of high quality and issued by a reputable firm. It has to be available in an electronic format that we can process and import. We also must have permission from the firm that produced the auction (for copyright reasons).

We'd like to include as many auctions as possible. If you would like to suggest a firm that we should consider, please contact us. Keep in mind, though, that technical reasons occasionally prevent us from including certain auctions.

The three-letter abbreviation stands for a currency:

• USD = United States Dollar
• EUR = Euro
• DEM = Deutsche Mark
• GBP = Great Britain Pound
• CHF = Swiss Franc
• FRF = French Franc
• AUD = Australian Dollar
• PLN = Polish Złoty
• CZK = Czech Koruna
• SEK = Swedish Krona
• INR = Indian Rupee
• JPY = Japanese Yen
• NOK = Norwegian Krone
• DKK = Danish Krone
• HKD = Hong Kong Dollar
• HUF = Hungarian Forint
• MXN = Mexican Peso

The vast majority of lot descriptions in BanknoteArchives.com are written by experts and checked for accuracy before publication. However, errors do inevitably occur. To preserve the integrity of the BanknoteArchives database, we don't correct any original lot descriptions after a sale date has passed. Why? Because we want to preserve a true archive of the material the auction firms produce, just like a library would do.

No. Prices realized are just the hammer prices achieved at an auction. As such, they don't reflect any post-sale fees. Most firms charge a buyer's fee, which can be a considerable cost to keep in mind when bidding in auctions. Currently, the buyer's fee in many auctions is 15-25% of the hammer price, but this number can change and differs among auction houses. Also keep in mind that firms typically add bank, credit card, shipping, and insurance fees to your invoice. Check each firm's Web site and carefully read their conditions of sale before bidding.

We don't own the copyright for any of the material in the BanknoteArchives database, so don't have the authority to let you use it. You need to contact the firm that originally produced the material and ask them for permission. Most firms are more than happy to allow the use of their material for non-commercial purposes.

The search engine tries to match a user's query with text in lot descriptions (as taken from online catalogs). Please see our search tips page for a complete explanation with examples.