The world's most beautiful currencies...

Indian 1,000 Rupee note bearing the image of the nation's father, Mohandas K. Gandhi in front and a combine harvester, an offshore oil derrick, a satellite, and a steel furnace, with a young girl working at a computer at the back.

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A Costa Rican bank note for five colones. It shows Rafael Yglesia Castro, president of Costa Rica from 1894 to 1902 and a Guaria Morada orchid, Costa Rica's national flower.

The current series of bank notes is being replaced throughout 2010.

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A Canadian bank note for five dollars, depicting children playing ice hockey.

The verse is from a Roch Carrier short story, and reads: "The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places - the school, the church and the skating rink - but our real life was on the skating rink."

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A colourful five dollar Australian note. In 1965, Australia adopted the name "royal" for its currency, but it was later dropped in favour of the dollar.

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A 100 dirham note from the UAE, showing the World Trade Centre.

A falcon watermark is placed on all UAE bank notes to help prevent fraud

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A five rupee note from Pakistan. The port depicted is Gwadar port, which opened in 2008.

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A 20 rand note from South Africa.

Each in this series of bank notes features a different animal from the "big five".
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A colourful, floral 1000 note from French Polynesia, where the currency is the CPF franc.

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