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anguilliforme

celeste-i asked:

YOUR TURN !!! BANKNOTE TOUR !!

anguilliforme answered:

ooh okay!!!! I have two banknote folders- one for my standard world notes and another for hyperinflation notes and any banknotes too large to fit into the first folder.

the renniks is the latter, i have 45 hyperinflation notes, a couple of my faves:

these nicaraguan ones which have the higher values hastily stamped over with black ink that glows under UV. I'm sure you've seen my fascination with hyperiflation designs before. the rushed desperation of the stamp-over style really gets to me.

here is the hundred trillion dollar note that i stayed up past midnight to make sure nobody outbid me, i got it for far less than a lot of hundred trillions are going for these days.

Also in the folder are my Big notes, for some of these i had to craft my own archive slip out of two XXL slips!

this includes my largest note, the thai 60 baht commemorative note.

Now onto my other folder, this one is considerably larger, and while its not completely filled, it's a few spending sprees away from me needing a new one:

I have mine organised in "kind of alphabetical" order. that just means that i bothered to put my notes in an a-is-for-australia, b-is-for-bhutan order but i didn't bother to alphabetise any more than that. Some of the highlights of the notes:

arabic countries absolutely go off with their designs! i'm a lover of both aesthetics and scripts that aren't latin, so these banknotes appeal greatly.

i've always found the netherland's 2 1/2 banknotes and coins so fun to look at. logically i get that it's just half of five and is probably a lot more useful when it comes to transactions but. fraction on a banknote.

my forgery peso! i got this one at a coin/banknote con last year. it was clearly labelled as a forgery and i was so intrigued about its circumstances that i had to get it.

this french algerian banknote (centre) is my most weak and pathetic banknote. i genuinely thought it was going to crumble in my hand as i put it in the archive slip. i've never been more scared to put a banknote into a slip. it's not coming back out because i don't think it would survive the journey.

#:o #amazing!#I love hyperinflation (monetary)#numismatics #(not really but it's in the ballpark)

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fagjolras

dug out my coin collection and jfc there's so much here we were clearly VERY into this at one point. like bags and bags of various coins? a whole labeled folder? why did we stop doing this??

cavedraconem

Hell yes!! Do you have any favourites you want to show and tell?

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littlespaceinsurrection

thread: cool coins i have 50 fen (half yuan) silver coin from Yunnan province, early to mid-1910s. despite the cool dragon, this was likely minted after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, using old dies. this was initially from the collection of a numismatist named Daniel K. E. Ching; the date given on the flip is october 1976.

littlespaceinsurrection

Another coin: British Indian rupee, featuring Queen Victoria, 1877

littlespaceinsurrection

And here we have another: Japanese 50 Sen (Meiji 33/1900), PCGS graded MS62

#I have one of those rupees as well!#it is so good #numismatics

cavedraconem

I'm sad tonight, so here are all of the coins that are sitting loose and unsleeved on my desk:

NZ 10c, 20c and 50c, received in my change at some point in the past. Mostly here for comparative purposes (useful to remember what your own coins look like), but have served a second purpose as bennies in a Savage Worlds game.
UK 2 pounds, transferred to me by my partner from his change in the UK. The design symbolises the history of scientific and technological development and actually uses the bimetallic frame well (which most coins do not). The edge reads "Standing on the shoulders of giants", which is a quote I thought everyone recognised and apparently they do not. I've seen the original plaster model for this at the Royal Mint.
Maltese 2c (olive branch) and 5c (crab), given to me by my mate who is Maltese from clearing out his parents' house. I brought four Maltese coins to work to show my friends for our regular COIN OF THE DAY segment. They loved them so much that I gave a couple away (1c, weasel and 10c, dolphin fish). I have heaps of weasels but will need to search for another dolphin fish.
Set of five Columbian peso coins displaying Columbian animals and plants. A Columbian coworker learned that I liked coins (I did not open with that, but one of the aforementioned friends was enthusiastic) and jumped to tell me that Columbia had an award-winning coin set, and a few days later she found me a full set. They really are very good, with connecting design elements of wavy lines that make them a set and not just a bunch of coins. I like the frog the best.
Australian 10c and 1 dollar (special issue featuring the GIANT RAM of Wagin), given to me by, well. Someone who doesn't need to hang on to special coins for me any more. But maybe that's ok when I have so many other people in my life who will.

#coins #I'm allowed to write self-indulgent prose after a breakup

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itsoofluffy

My puppy is rather malleable when she’s napping. Decided to make a quick stop motion animation with her!

#this is so impressive #they even moved her little ears #huh this post is several years old but I've seen it five times today

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lumsketch

Foreach 098 - Interstitial

foreach.neocities.org

UPDATE!

Read Foreach from the beginning HERE.

Keep up to date! Join the Discord here!

#yayyy #foreach

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maybeallieart

An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.

#!!!!!#embroidery

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fipindustries

please explain why in the tags

fipindustries

i love that the author themselves has a favourite. no "oooh i couldnt choose between my babies", its specifically the doom clone

lumsel

fuck all that gayass talky shit let me shoot some cunts

theothin

amusing things about the current standings:

the author's pick is in last place
all the other talk is about love bomb and/or hellfuck, each with multiple advocates
homebound, which has not gotten a single comment advocating for it, is in first place

phaeton-flier

Game about talking and debating has least fans arguing for it, lol

#this poll result brought to you by:#banging my head against nine sols instead of going to fencing #foreach

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elodieunderglass

You can imagine how long my sleepless American ass spent pondering the right-hand coin at toddler group, with the only explanation coming to hand that I was in an alternate universe, until a group of elderly British people swooped in with glad cries to explain something about decimalisation

#yay decimalisation!#numismatics

cavedraconem

Weird eras of numismatic history: When the British took over the island of Jersey they converted their existing French currency, the sous, to sterling at a rate of 26 sous per shilling. Later they started minting a penny equivalent - the penny, mind, comes 12 to a shilling, nice divisible number so it's easy to make change.

But I guess they decided to go with a "double sous" for the Jersey version of the penny. So for about 36 years, the good people of the States of Jersey used "One thirteenth of a shilling" coins, i.e. a prime numbered fraction of a shilling.

#coins #numismatics #my friends at work got me this for my birthday #it was so sweet of them <3

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retrocgads

UK 1998

foone

Argonaut my beloved. Supposedly this is getting an HD remake soon.

#!#I had this game!#it ran so SO poorly on my mum's laptop #barely playable but damn I wanted to

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lumsel

bunchashapes

#relatable...#disco elysium

cavedraconem

Very funny situation yesterday at work - early in the day there was a big Microsoft Azure outage in the region where we host all our stuff, so all of our services went down and everything munted to the extent that there was no way to even get in and redeploy them to another region. (If you couldn't get through a door with your phone yesterday, you can go ahead and blame Microsoft for that one. Luckily our support phone lines also went down so no one could report it either.)

And then Crowdstrike happened.

#good thing I just write the manuals and am not responsible for any of this!

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aurosoulart

when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

aurosoulart

because of the huge response to this post, I decided to make a version of the art that includes the text

I’ve also uploaded this design to INPRNT, and all sales proceeds will be donated to environmental and humanitarian charities!

aurosoulart

this is still going around with the old dead links - please help me share this version

#this makes me tear up a bit every time I see it #art

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roach-works

yesterdaysprint

The Roanoke News, Weldon, North Carolina, August 19, 1909

jerkstorecalling

tough shit gibby

#presumably he is annoyed because a penny is a twelfth of a british shilling #and a cent is a hundredth of an american dollar #so they can't be the same thing!#numismatics

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flaroh

The Lovers of Akrotiri 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🐦‍⬛🌺🌞

Junes illustration is a sweet scene of two Minoan girlfriends, that plays on the saffron gatherer motif but this time with a stylised lily landscape reminiscent of the “Spring Fresco of Akrotiri”. 🐦‍⬛🌺🌞

Their dresses are based on frescos of women and goddesses from the Minoan city of Akrotiri that was preserved in a volcanic eruption in the 16th century BCE🌋

#I LOVE the frescos on Akrotiri #those swallows are so good #tagamemnon #...#female-presenting nipples