MOSCOW, March 10, Tatyana Ryzhkova. National symbols, monarchs, presidents are traditionally depicted on money. And collectors value banknotes with blunders, secret signs and other deviations most of all. About the most unusual and interesting banknotes — in the material on the International Day of Paper Money.
Record for blunders
The Russian banknote of 500 rubles is dedicated to Arkhangelsk. On the front side there is a monument to Peter the Great and a sailboat against the background of the sea station, on the reverse side there is a panorama of the Solovetsky Monastery (the Solovetsky Islands are administratively subordinate to the Arkhangelsk Region) and another sailboat. The banknote, which was printed before 2010, has several flaws.
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"The ship on the front is actually Spanish (or Argentinian). The author of this banknote took the ship from an illustration in one of the books. And the artist of the book made an unfortunate mistake — he depicted a foreign sailboat, signing it as Russian. This substitution was revealed after the banknote entered circulation,” says Alexander Baranov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, bonist.
In addition, a ship from a different era is visible behind the sailboat, adds Baranov.
Solovki on the reverse side also caused bewilderment: the domes of the monastery were without crosses. It looks like the drawing was made in the days when the islands were a prison for political prisoners.
And another blunder — a small ship near the walls of the monastery.
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«In reality, this place is a lake in which this ship simply does not fit,» the expert notes.
The most mystical bill The one dollar, issued in Canada in 1954, looks very nice — made of high quality linen and cotton, it is decorated with a portrait of the late British Queen Elizabeth II. The photo of the then young princess was taken by Canadian photographer Yusuf Karsh in 1951 at Clarence House, a year before Elizabeth's accession to the throne.
necklace of diamond flowers and leaves, with earrings in the form of inflorescences.
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"Fanatical subjects, examining the queen's hair, saw in her the face of the devil. There was a slight hysteria, the Bank of Canada was accused of Satanism. The banknotes were withdrawn from circulation and reprinted, but the memory of them still excites impressionable minds,” says Baranov. and in the US dollar.
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“An unfinished pyramid, an eye in a triangle, the motto In God We Trust (“In God we trust”) — the public refers all this to either Satanism or Freemasonry,” the expert explains. p>
Many elements with the devil's dozen: 13 stars (obverse), stripes on the flag, arrows in the paw of an eagle, olive leaves, olives on a branch, brick levels of the pyramid, letters in the inscription E Pluribus Unum, peaks in the sum of two parts of the pyramid, tufts of grass next to her. But this symbolizes not the devilry, but the number of the first US states.
With the highest denomination
Several bills can compete for this title . The 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 banknote was in disintegrating Yugoslavia.
In 1989, hyperinflation broke out there, and with that kind of money you could only buy food.
A hundred trillion bill was in Zimbabwe in 2009, a hundred million billion in Hungary in 1946.
From the strangest material
Although we are talking about paper money, they are made mainly from linen and cotton. There are two sources of high-quality raw materials, for example, in Europe: French Normandy and Belarus. It was from Belarusian linen that the euro was printed.
There were also wooden banknotes in history — and these are not rubles, but German marks after the First World War. They were called notgeld («emergency money»). These were also printed on aluminum foil, silk and playing cards. Today it is a great value for collectors.
The most beautiful
Experts award this title to the crown of the Faroe Islands, where there is practically no crime. The bills are made in the style of wet watercolor, which symbolizes the local rainy weather. And they depict seafood: shells, crabs and fish. -crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»400″ data-source-sid=»istock-2023″ class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1280″ decoding=»async» />
Most criminal
With the help of banknotes of five, ten and 20 dollars, illegal substances are most often used. But the most pure and «anti-drug» currency is the Japanese yen.
By the way, money soiled in this way is not dangerous to health, but it can give a positive drug test.
March 8, 08:00