Posted 10/06/2010 8:02 pm
Mostly, they're from Eastern Europe and date from the time just after the breakup of the USSR and disintegration of Yugoslavia, in the early 1990s.
Pic #1: the top note is from Turkmenistan, the bottom note is from Macedonia.
Pic #2 is a general overview.
Pic #3: top left is Estonia, middle left is from Bosnia, bottom left is Latvia. Top right is from Azerbaijan, middle right is Ukraine, bottom right is Kazakstan.
Pic #4: The top one is from Armenia, the middle is from Moldova and the bottom is from Russia.
Pic #5: Top left is from Uzbekistan, middle left is from Belarus, bottom left is from the remnant of Yugoslavia. Top right is from Kyrgyzstan, middle right is from Transnistria, and the bottom right is from Georgia.
Pic 6: the ones on the right are the same notes as the ones on the left of pic 5. Top left is from Lithuania, middle left is from Croatia and the bottom left is from Slovenia.
These notes are all quite cheap. Most of these countries had basket-case economies when they declared independence, and most were hit by severe inflation, making their early notes like these useless as money. At the time, notes like these were often used as giveaways in "free banknote" promotions. Given the lack of duplication (all of these are from different countries), I suspect something like that is probably the source for these notes.
Pic #1: the top note is from Turkmenistan, the bottom note is from Macedonia.
Pic #2 is a general overview.
Pic #3: top left is Estonia, middle left is from Bosnia, bottom left is Latvia. Top right is from Azerbaijan, middle right is Ukraine, bottom right is Kazakstan.
Pic #4: The top one is from Armenia, the middle is from Moldova and the bottom is from Russia.
Pic #5: Top left is from Uzbekistan, middle left is from Belarus, bottom left is from the remnant of Yugoslavia. Top right is from Kyrgyzstan, middle right is from Transnistria, and the bottom right is from Georgia.
Pic 6: the ones on the right are the same notes as the ones on the left of pic 5. Top left is from Lithuania, middle left is from Croatia and the bottom left is from Slovenia.
These notes are all quite cheap. Most of these countries had basket-case economies when they declared independence, and most were hit by severe inflation, making their early notes like these useless as money. At the time, notes like these were often used as giveaways in "free banknote" promotions. Given the lack of duplication (all of these are from different countries), I suspect something like that is probably the source for these notes.
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