Commons:US Banknote Contest/2019/categorization
When uploading your images, remember to add them to the appropriate categories. Use this guide to find the category your image belongs in.
Official US banknotes
[edit]Compound interest treasury notes
[edit]Add images of compound interest treasury notes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $10: Category:10 dollar Compound Interest Treasury Notes
- $20: Category:20 dollar Compound Interest Treasury Notes
- $50: Category:50 dollar Compound Interest Treasury Notes
- $100: Category:100 dollar Compound Interest Treasury Notes
- $500: Category:500 dollar Compound Interest Treasury Notes
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar Compound Interest Treasury Notes
Continental currency
[edit]Add images of Continental Currency banknotes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $1⁄6, $1⁄3, $1⁄2, and $2⁄3: Category:Fractional Continental Currency notes
- $1: Category:1 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $2: Category:2 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $3: Category:3 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $4: Category:4 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $5: Category:5 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $6: Category:6 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $7: Category:7 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $8: Category:8 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $20: Category:20 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $30: Category:30 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $35: Category:35 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $40: Category:40 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $45: Category:45 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $50: Category:50 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $55: Category:55 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $60: Category:60 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $65: Category:65 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $70: Category:70 dollar Continental Currency notes
- $80: Category:80 dollar Continental Currency notes
Demand Notes
[edit]Add images of Demand Notes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $5: Category:5 dollar Demand Notes
- $10: Category:10 dollar Demand Notes
- $20: Category:20 dollar Demand Notes
Federal Reserve Bank Notes
[edit]Add images of Federal Reserve Bank Notes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $1: Category:1 dollar Federal Reserve Bank Note
- $2: Category:2 dollar Federal Reserve Bank Note
- $5: Category:5 dollar Federal Reserve Bank Note
- $10: Category:10 dollar Federal Reserve Bank Note
- $20: Category:20 dollar Federal Reserve Bank Note
- $50: Category:50 dollar Federal Reserve Bank Note
- $100: Category:100 dollar Federal Reserve Bank Note
Federal Reverse Notes
[edit]Add images of Federal Reserve Notes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $1: Category:1 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $2: Category:2 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $5: Category:5 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $10: Category:10 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $20: Category:20 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $50: Category:50 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $100: Category:100 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $500: Category:500 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $5,000: Category:5000 dollar Federal Reserve Note
- $10,000: Category:10000 dollar Federal Reserve Note
Fractional currency notes
[edit]Add images of fractional currency to the appropriate denomination category:
- 3¢: Category:3 cent U.S. Fractional Currency
- 5¢: Category:5 cent U.S. Fractional Currency
- 10¢: Category:10 cent U.S. Fractional Currency
- 15¢: Category:15 cent U.S. Fractional Currency
- 25¢: Category:25 cent U.S. Fractional Currency
- 50¢: Category:50 cent U.S. Fractional Currency
Gold Certificates
[edit]Add images of Gold Certificates to the appropriate denomination category:
- $10: Category:10 dollar Gold Certificates
- $20: Category:20 dollar Gold Certificates
- $50: Category:50 dollar Gold Certificates
- $100: Category:100 dollar Gold Certificates
- $500: Category:500 dollar Gold Certificates
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar Gold Certificates
- $5,000: Category:5000 dollar Gold Certificates
- $10,000: Category:10000 dollar Gold Certificates
- $100,000: Category:100000 dollar Gold Certificates
Interest bearing notes
[edit]Add images of interest bearing notes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $10: Category:10 dollar Interest Bearing Notes
- $20: Category:20 dollar Interest Bearing Notes
- $50: Category:50 dollar Interest Bearing Notes
- $100: Category:100 dollar Interest Bearing Notes
- $500: Category:500 dollar Interest Bearing Notes
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar Interest Bearing Notes
- $5,000: Category:5000 dollar Interest Bearing Notes
Military Payment Certificates
[edit]Add images of Military Payment Certificates to the appropriate denomination category:
- 5¢: Category:5 cent Military Payment Certificates
- 10¢: Category:10 cent Military Payment Certificates
- 25¢: Category:25 cent Military Payment Certificates
- 50¢: Category:50 cent Military Payment Certificates
- $1: Category:1 dollar Military Payment Certificates
- $5: Category:5 dollar Military Payment Certificates
- $10: Category:10 dollar Military Payment Certificates
- $20: Category:20 dollar Military Payment Certificates
National Bank Notes
[edit]Add images of National Bank Notes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $1: Category:1 dollar National Bank Notes
- $2: Category:2 dollar National Bank Notes
- $5: Category:5 dollar National Bank Notes
- $10: Category:10 dollar National Bank Notes
- $20: Category:20 dollar National Bank Notes
- $50: Category:50 dollar National Bank Notes
- $100: Category:100 dollar National Bank Notes
- $500: Category:500 dollar National Bank Notes
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar National Bank Notes
National Gold Bank Notes
[edit]Add images of National Gold Bank Notes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $5: Category:5 dollar National Gold Bank Notes
- $10: Category:10 dollar National Gold Bank Notes
- $20: Category:20 dollar National Gold Bank Notes
- $50: Category:50 dollar National Gold Bank Notes
- $100: Category:100 dollar National Gold Bank Notes
- $500: Category:500 dollar National Gold Bank Notes
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar National Gold Bank Notes
Refunding Certificates
[edit]Add images of Refunding Certificates to Category:Refunding Certificate.
Silver Certificates
[edit]Add images of Silver Certificates to the appropriate denomination category:
- $1: Category:1 dollar Silver Certificates
- $2: Category:2 dollar Silver Certificates
- $5: Category:5 dollar Silver Certificates
- $10: Category:10 dollar Silver Certificates
- $20: Category:20 dollar Silver Certificates
- $50: Category:50 dollar Silver Certificates
- $100: Category:100 dollar Silver Certificates
- $500: Category:500 dollar Silver Certificates
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar Silver Certificates
Treasury Notes
[edit]Treasury Notes of early and mid-1800s
[edit]Add images of early and mid-1800s Treasury Notes to the appropriate denomination category (if it exists).
If no such category exist, you may create a new category. Otherwise, place the image in Category:Treasury Notes, and another user might create the category for you.
Existing denomination-specific categories are as follows:
- $10: Category:10 dollar Treasury Notes
- $50: Category:50 dollar Treasury Notes
- $500: Category:500 dollar Treasury Notes
Not all mid-1800 "Treasury Notes" are Treasury Notes, early series of United States Notes (then called Legal Tender Notes) were marked as "Treasury Notes" despite being a separate issue. These notes are nearly identical to actual Treasury Notes, but can be distinguished from the latter by the lack of indication that it was redeemable in coin.
Treasury Notes of 1890 and 1891
[edit]Add images of 1890 and 1891 Treasury Notes (a.k.a. Coin Notes) to the appropriate denomination category:
- $1: Category:1 dollar Coin Notes
- $2: Category:2 dollar Coin Notes
- $5: Category:5 dollar Coin Notes
- $10: Category:10 dollar Coin Notes
- $20: Category:20 dollar Coin Notes
- $50: Category:50 dollar Coin Notes
- $100: Category:100 dollar Coin Notes
- $500: Category:500 dollar Coin Notes
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar Coin Notes
United States Notes
[edit]Add images of United States Notes (a.k.a. Legal Tender Notes) to the appropriate denomination category:
- $1: Category:1 dollar United States Notes
- $2: Category:2 dollar United States Notes
- $5: Category:5 dollar United States Notes
- $10: Category:10 dollar United States Notes
- $20: Category:20 dollar United States Notes
- $50: Category:50 dollar United States Notes
- $100: Category:100 dollar United States Notes
- $500: Category:500 dollar United States Notes
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar United States Notes
- $5,000: Category:5000 dollar United States Notes
- $10,000: Category:10000 dollar United States Notes
Postal notes
[edit]Add images of United States postal notes to Category:United States postal notes.
Free Banking Era banknotes
[edit]Add images of Free Banking Era banknotes to the appropriate denomination category (if it exists).
If no such category exist, you may create a new category. Otherwise, place the image in Category:US Free Banking Era banknotes, and another user might create the category for you.
Existing denomination-specific categories are as follows:
- Below $1: Category:Fractional Free Banking Era banknotes
- $1: Category:1 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
- $2: Category:2 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
- $3: Category:3 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
- $5: Category:5 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
- $10: Category:10 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
- $50: Category:50 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
- $500: Category:500 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
- $2,000: Category:2000 dollar Free Banking Era banknotes
American Period Philippine banknotes
[edit]Add images of American Period Philippine banknotes to the appropriate denomination category:
- 10¢, 20¢, and 50¢: Category:Fractional American Period Philippine banknotes
- ₱1: Category:1 peso American Period Philippine banknotes
- ₱2: Category:2 peso American Period Philippine banknotes
- ₱5: Category:5 peso American Period Philippine banknotes
- ₱10: Category:10 peso American Period Philippine banknotes
- ₱20: Category:20 peso American Period Philippine banknotes
- ₱50: Category:50 peso American Period Philippine banknotes
- ₱100: Category:100 peso American Period Philippine banknotes
- ₱500: Category:500 peso American Period Philippine banknotes
Banknotes of the Confederate States
[edit]Official banknotes
[edit]Add images of Confederate banknotes to the appropriate denomination category:
- 50¢: Category:50 cent Confederate banknotes
- $1: Category:1 dollar Confederate banknotes
- $2: Category:2 dollar Confederate banknotes
- $5: Category:5 dollar Confederate banknotes
- $10: Category:10 dollar Confederate banknotes
- $20: Category:20 dollar Confederate banknotes
- $50: Category:50 dollar Confederate banknotes
- $100: Category:100 dollar Confederate banknotes
- $500: Category:500 dollar Confederate banknotes
- $1,000: Category:1000 dollar Confederate banknotes
Local and private banknotes
[edit]See below.
Banknotes of the Republic of Texas
[edit]Official banknotes
[edit]Add images of Republic of Texas banknotes to the appropriate denomination category:
- $1: Category:1 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
- $2: Category:2 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
- $3: Category:3 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
- $5: Category:5 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
- $10: Category:10 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
- $20: Category:20 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
- $50: Category:50 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
- $100: Category:100 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
- $500: Category:500 dollar Republic of Texas banknotes
Local and private banknotes
[edit]See below.
Local and private currencies
[edit]Place images of local and private banknote issues on one of the following categories:
- Category:Banknotes of United States local currencies, for images that do not belong in any of the categories below.
- Category:Banknotes of Confederate local currencies, for images of Confederate local banknotes.
- Category:Banknotes of Hawaii, for images of Hawaiian local banknotes.
- Category:Micronational United States banknotes, for images of a US micronation's banknotes.
- Category:Banknotes of Puerto Rico, for images of Puerto Rican local banknotes
- Category:Local and private Republic of Texas banknotes, for images of local banknotes from the Republic of Texas.