Strange Currencies: a picture thread

what are some cool/awful/interesting banknotes?

the kazakhstani tenge is all of the above imo:

http://www.mensxp.com/UltimateEditorInclude/UserFiles/0000000000001%20acurrency/kazakasthan%20tenge.jpg

or coins!

somali shilling:
http://www.foxnews.com/images/466822/0_61_111708_somalishilling.jpg

yemeni rial and ugandan shilling are nice, understated
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/omarhadad/Paper%20Notes/1965YemenDemRepSouthArabianCurrAuth.jpg
http://ugandaninsomniac.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/uganda-currency-100-shillings-1966.jpg

hong kong 10 is untearable and has a window PRETTY COOL
http://www.manaliandterry.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hong-kong-currency_border-560x495.jpg

yemeni dinar i guess

swiss francs
http://blog.onpaperwings.com/uploaded_images/swiss-francs-767987.jpg

20 Swedish Krona

http://www.sagafi.net/images/currencies/Sweden%20%2820%20Kronor%29%20back.jpg

Whoa, it's Nils Holgersson and Mårten the goose! I've been to Sweden a few times but I've never noticed that, maybe it's a new bill? I'm going there next month, have to get one of those.

wow Michael Gira on Swiss 200 Franc note.

Romanian 500 lei note, with alien.

http://cdn2.ioffer.com/img/item/300/991/9/1.jpg

Suriname

http://www.webbiz2u.com/NOTES/SRG100a.jpg

http://www.webbiz2u.com/NOTES/SRG500a.jpg

(The whole range is stunning.)

It's too bad Yugoslavia isn't around any more because their 10 billion dinar note was MAD SCIENTIST MONEY with Tesla.

http://www.quartzcity.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/tesla10billion.jpg

Schroedinger on the Austrian 1000 Schilling note.

http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~mystery/images/money/physics/schrdngr.gif

(taken from Physicists On Money website: http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~mystery/images/money/physics/index.engl.html)

...but where's his cat?

came here 2 post swiss francs which r just showing off imo

in some old HK films they show old versions of HK bills, which were really big, like A5 sized. I wish more countries would make big bills, that way you feel badass when you take out your sheaf of 100's to pay for a drink.

also standard chartered released a 150 dollar note

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_obCl6xFrlzo/SqewrHEshOI/AAAAAAAACbc/vTajJRu_nKs/s320/150.PNG

Is the picture on the obverse side a photo of the guys holding up the note?

really miss the old Dutch 50 Guilder note:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1118/3173923940_2be8eba491_o.jpg

hahah that would be amazing xp

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Hundred_billion_dollars_and_eggs.jpg
"Zimbabwe's $100 billion banknote with the number of eggs it could purchase on its release date"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar

Full of lols, provided of course you're not getting paid in them.

i almost feel bad for the dutch bad guys who wouldve had to dramatically open a briefcase of ill-gotten 50s in some dank warehouse only to reveal a happy little garden

sa rand otoh: pretty badass
http://samedy.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/south_african_rand.jpg

I miss getting pretty South Afrikan rand on my birthday. :-(

(BTW, I am totally stealing the name "Strange Currencies" for a dirty droner solo project)

Nice thread.

stone rai from the micronesia island of yap
http://www.antoranz.net/CURIOSA/ZBIOR3/C0310/10-QZC08007_ART27-18-182_Yap-stone-money.jpg

Roman spintria: numbers are prices

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ySCIT3KO9Zc/S_PopgTbGxI/AAAAAAAARFM/86EkG32HZOY/coins-8%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ySCIT3KO9Zc/S_PomFZnFcI/AAAAAAAARE4/77axFxmlpWI/coins-3%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800

more here

This could quickly turn into TMI, but what's going on under the bed in coin VI ?

Thats a very good question o_0

maybe you pay to be the little guy and you just get to watch, and that's why it's cheaper than the first one there???

No results found for "midget sperm collector".

xp ^^ very good analysis, I was just wondering why the second coin was cheaper than the first coin

why thank you

We may need a poll to find out who ILX thinks is the client and what the person under the bed needs that receptacle for.