New additions week 52 - 2016
On the last day before my holiday I decided to visit the local coin shop. Of course you can get everything online, but there is still something special about a brick-and-mortar store, right? The shop near where I work specializes in coins and stamps but they have a small collection of banknotes, mostly the 1-euro-each toilet paper like notes but I can always find something nice there. In places like that with a big basket full of cheap notes, I especially try to look for visually appealing banknotes. For instance, the back of the 20-korun note below from Czechoslovakia which I think is stunning.
The harvest today:
- Czechoslovakia: 20-korun (P95)
- Greece: 1,000-drachmai (P110a)
- Greece: 1,000-drachmai-on-100-drachmai (P111a)
- Hungary: 20-forint (P169g)
- Hungary: 50-forint (P170g)
- Hungary: 100-forint (P171e)
- Hungary: 100-forint (P171g)
- Luxembourg: 10-francs (P53a)
Last but not least, I also received a very special banknote. This Christmas my family played secret Santa: everybody had to get one present for one other person. My little daughter of 5 had picked me and asked my wife: "Daddy loves banknotes but where does he buy them? I don't know where to get one!" My wife suggested she could make one herself. I think the result is very nice and I will give it a place of honour in my collection!
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