Money makes the world go round
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Swiss gold coin minted in 1895 with an estimated value of SFr50,000 (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters) Reuters -
Money exchange office in Yemen (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters) Reuters -
A 10,000 yen banknote at the museum of the Bank of Japan (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) Reuters -
Legal tender - the US dollar (Kacper Pempel/Reuters) Reuters -
Small change for bus tickets in Pakistan (Athar Hussain/Reuters) Reuters -
Austrian gold ducat coins with an estimated value of SFr250 each (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters) Reuters -
All of the available Swiss bank notes at a glance (Keystone/Gaetan Bally) Keystone -
Albanian artist Saimir Strati working on a giant bank note with 300,000 industrial screws (Arben Celi/Reuters) Reuters -
A dollar in Singapore... (Tim Chong/Reuters) Reuters -
... and in New Zealand (Dennis Owen/Reuters) Reuters -
Money vendor displays new Bangladeshi takas (Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters) Reuters -
Shop window in Prague (Petr Josek/Reuters) Reuters -
Checking a euro note at the Bank of Taiwan (Pichi Chuang/Reuters) Reuters -
Britain's Queen Elizabeth portrayed on the five pound note (Catherine Benso/Reuters) Reuters -
Crumpled but not worthless (Nikola Solic/Reuters) Reuters
There are 300 different currencies worldwide.
This content was published on August 3, 2011
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Experts say the dollar could one day lose its status as global reserve currency. (Sebastian Stange, swissinfo.ch)
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