Dr. Rezwan Razack started collecting Indian Paper Money as his childhood hobby. Over the past nearly 60 years, he accomplished a specialized collection comprising of one note of each variety of Paper Money pertaining to India since inception to the present.

New York native Clyde Reedy was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a degree in engineering. He later joined the United States Army, serving with the Corps of Engineers until his retirement twenty-five years later.

Chet Krause was a pioneer in numismatics whose vision transformed the field of world paper money collecting. Best known as the founder of Krause Publications, from the beginning he demonstrated a remarkable understanding of collectors and their needs.

William H. Stickles, (1915-2001), was charter member 97 of the IBNS. His collecting specialties were notes of Africa and memorabilia of the French Foreign Legion. He served in the US Army 1941-1969, retiring in the grade of sergeant-major. He served the IBNS as corresponding secretary 1971-1973 and as treasurer 1974-1993. In March 1993 he was installed as the Society’s third Honorary Director for Life.

Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Kenneth Graeber was a pioneering numismatic author and the foremost authority on the local monetary issues of the Spanish Civil War. A commercial printer by trade, Graeber volunteered with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Serving as an ambulance driver for the Republicans from 1937 to 1938, he traveled extensively, treating the wounded and collecting small pieces of local currency ("vales") from the towns he passed through. He later served in the Merchant Marine during World War II.

was without doubt a true pioneer in the study of world paper money. His single-volume Encyclopedia of World Paper Money published in 1965 was a tremendous step forward into the understanding of what it was to collect world currencies.

is a most notable numismatic researcher and ambassador, specializing in the the currencies of Southeast Asia.  Always willing to share his time and knowledge with anyone he has for many years focused on attracting young members into the hobby. 

Trevor Wilkin from Australia has been described as “one of the most interesting, most knowledgeable and most trustworthy banknote dealers in the world.” His banknote expertise and historical perspective are refreshing and always spot on accurate.

John Sandrock (Charter Member 0026) from the United States of America was a pioneer in the hobby of paper money collecting and his devotion was stellar.

An extraordinary banknote collector from Johannesburg, South Africa, he helped found the IBNS in 1961 and served as one if its early presidents for almost a decade.

Charter Member of IBNS #0022-C, Art is nominated for his long work in running the Latin America Paper Money Society (LANSA), founded in 1973.

The very epitome of a world banknote collecting legend, Weldon did what no one else was capable of doing by physically handling, conserving and bringing order to the most challenging monetary union in the world, West African States.

Dwight Musser was a pioneer working in the late 1950s and early 1960s especially with notgeld and other kinds of notes aimed at getting collectors interested.

Gene Hessler, the author of five major books on paper money, an award winning author of more than 350 articles on numismatics and a well-known broadcaster and lecturer on the topic.

Pam West is a paper money dealer, publisher of award-winning books on paper money, entrepreneur and for 30 years the driving force behind the London Chapter of the IBNS.

Joseph Boling has devoted much of his life to collecting and a large part of his retirement years to the services of numismatics as an author and an indefatigable administrator.

Ruth Hill, or Mrs. Adolf B. Hill Jr. III as she liked her letters to be addressed, was the grand old lady of paper money collecting in North America.

Arnold Keller can rightly be called the father of modern paper money catalogues. He was born in Germany in 1897 and began collecting paper money around the age of 14.

Albert Pick is internationally recognized as the author of the first comprehensive catalogue of world banknotes and is widely credited with establishing the modern face of banknote collecting.