In the charity box on the counter in McDonald’s today I saw a folded banknote that had been dropped in. It looked unfamiliar so I wondered what it might be. It certainly appeared to be a real banknote, with serial numbers etc, but I couldn’t read much of it.
It had a lot of blank white space, with a purple design.
In one corner was an abstract looking logo consisting of overlapping purple and green shapes (one irregular shape of each colour, as I recall).
The only text I could make out was …iti Bank, and on the the other side of the note was a word that appeared to start with R (which might have been the same text that I could see the other end of on the first side).
The overall look was quite clean and modern, not an old-fashioned “copper engraved” style. More like the style of a euro note than an old dollar bill, say.
I couldn’t make out what the main design on the note might be. Any ideas?
It could be a Haitian banknote (the name of the currency being gourde). They are quite colourful, the issuing central bank is the Banque de la République d’Haiti (there you have your R), and as this picture shows, teh text “Banque de la République d’Haiti” is followed by the same name in Creole, starting with “Bank”, so that’s where the “iti Bank” part could come from.
It wasn’t anything like the Haitian note. I think it probably was part of the Citibank logo that I could see. Maybe a cheque (although Googling for Citibank cheques doesn’t come up with anything similar). And it didn’t have the machine-readable cheque numbers, as far as I can see, but proper banknote-style serial numbers. And who puts a cheque in the penny box at McDonald’s?
