As artefacts of culture, currency notes signify more than just tokens of payment. Currency designs primarily communicate information like denomination, issuing authority, national imagery whilst also conveying authority, prestige and notable representations and identifications of the popular. Their circulation, reach, impact and influence cannot be underestimated especially in their contribution towards culture and identity construction. For over 300 years now, incorporating every technological advancement in paper, printing and inks; currency notes; flamboyant visual messengers of economic herald and national identity; primarily to combat counterfeits have serendipitously evolved their own exceptional designs. 
The use of landscape images as inscriptions on money is not a recent phenomenon. Built edifices like temples, churches, towers, gates, castles, buildings, entire cities and their sky-lines have adorned coins since ancient times and recently, even banknotes. Spaces and places draw an immediate identification of geographical and thereby national heritage identification. 
The UNESCO pioneered conservation of such sites by proposing the World Heritage (WHO) Sites with the increased concern of protection of global cultural and natural heritage around four decades ago. Emblazing such sites on money existed even before that but this recent ratification of such identifiable sites, further contributes to the immediate construction of national distinctiveness and place identification, both within and outside its issuing nations. 
The latest series of the Indian Rupee notes commemorate WHO sites on almost all of its denominations. For the banknote; a vehicle of popular culture; which might eventually find its way out of our pockets and into museums or with passionate collectors; documenting heritage, archaeology and culture into our permanent visual landscape; is a significant and extraordinary contribution. It must be noted that Indian monetary imagery is not the first to emblazon these artefacts; even before the WHO various nations had selected this medium for documenting and broadcasting their proud heritage. This research documents these celebrated sites since the advent of banknotes and their illustrations on these most circulated artworks. 

Using semiotics from the visual communications literature, this research will present that money is not merely a medium of exchange- but a medium of communication, by showcasing the reciprocal identity constructions of heritage sites and their associations on money thereby uniquely contributing to the fields of history, archaeology and numismatics.