The Engraveyard: Money of Many Nations Print
Saturday, 29th July 2006 (by J.D.)This article is about Funny Money
James Lileks hosts some beuatiful images scanned from financial documents around the world.
His Curious Lucre section contains “money of many nations”, including currency from: Argentina, Austria, Biafra, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, and the U.S. Army. (The latter is not really a country.) From that sequence, it seems clear that currency from other countries F-Z will probably be forthcoming.
I like this banknote from Cambodia:

Lileks’ Bureau of Corporate Allegory features images from old stock certificates. This section doesn’t have a central index as the currency does; one must take a linear “slide show”. But it’s worth it.


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