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North Korea 2006 1000 Won P-45 Fine example! |
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North Korea 2006 1000 Won P-45 Interesting to see how the North Korean note basically stays the same (very similar design) from the older versions to the new ones "IGE." Quote:
The Jordan 1 Dinar (2016) with King Hussein has a nice vignette on the reverse showing The Great Arab Revolt. -another colourful anecdote re: the checkered history of these oil rich nations. Thanks for sharing "Scots." |
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Georgi Dimitrov 1882-1949 A Bulgarian revolutionary & politician who became Bulgaria's 1st Communist Leader, his parents were Protestant refugees from Ottoman Macedonia. Georgi became a typesetter in the printing industry before getting into politics, his activities led to him having to flee, first to Yugoslavia then Germany. In Germany he was accused of being a co-conspirator in the burning down of the Reichstag in 1933, he opted to defend himself during trial, against the nazi regime's Hermann Goring. Dimitrov was acquitted & expelled to the Soviet Union where his fame led him into Stalin's inner circle. After 22 years in exile, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria in 1946, becoming the country's Communist leader & Prime Minister until his death in 1949. Rumours that he was poisoned by Stalin abounded, after the fall of Communism in the 1990's Dimitrov's mausoleum was torn down & his body re-interred in a cemetery in Sofia. Bulgaria 10 Leva (1974)   |
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After 22 years in exile, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria in 1946, becoming the country's Communist leader & Prime Minister until his death in 1949. -Guy lived a full life! Another interesting anecdote "Scots" --thanks for sharing. |
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Thanks walk2dwater/jbuck. Bartolome Mitre 1821-1906 Born in Buenos Aires to a Greek family, he would become a military figure, statesman, Freemason, author & President of Argentina. A political liberal, he opposed the regime of Juan Manuel de Rosas, causing Mitre into exile in Uruguay where he became a journalist & high ranking military figure in the Uruguayan Army. He returned to Argentina, leading a revolt & after years of fighting for political unity became President in 1862. He would go on to establish La Nacion newspaper, which the Mitre family still own. He spent his later years writing poetry, fiction & accounts of South America's wars of independence. He's on this Argentina 50 Australes (1986)   |
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The normal front and then the reverse of a German Reichsbanknote originally from 1923 which has been overprinted at a much later date:   |
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Great addition to the thread notgeldman.
Would a lot of those banknotes have been overprinted?
As a propaganda campaign by the nazi regime?.
I've often wondered why dictators like Stalin, Hitler, Mugabe, to name a famous trio, never actually appeared on their countries' legitimate paper money.
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The normal front and then the reverse of a German Reichsbanknote originally from 1923 which has been overprinted at a much later date: Very interesting. |
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@jbuck - there are lots of overprinted German banknotes. The big problem with these types though is the authenticity......not of the actual banknote itself, but the overprint. I have learnt a great deal from handling maybe over 200 pieces. You need the right magnification and a knowledge of what you are actually looking at or for in the ink pattern. I don't profess to be an expert on them at all, but I do know more than most people I think. Some of the grading companies are not getting it right, it has to be said. It is why most of the big European collectors won't use these types of companies, which I think are quite popular in the States for some reason.
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