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

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There are 300 different currencies worldwide.

Experts say the dollar could one day lose its status as global reserve currency. (Sebastian Stange, swissinfo.ch)