Money is a serious thing – amazing bills and coins from all over the world
Let's take a look at the most unusual banknotes and coins, active or not, which have distinguished themselves by something extremely curious.
Banknotes that were issued in Germany after the First World War.
This coin contains a built-in vessel filled with holy water. A total of 25 thousand such coins were issued.
Unofficial currency. The banknotes were issued from 1996 to 2001.
These were used in the city of Tenino, Washington, USA, during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
A well-known case of hyperinflation in the country. But this is not a record yet, as it will be in the next paragraph.
This is a banknote with a face value of 1 sextillion penges, that is, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 penges (which was equal to 2.4 US cents). The reason for such numbers is the strongest inflation of the 20s.
Coins of British pence, combined in a common composition, form a shield depicted on a one pound sterling coin.
Banknotes have been put into circulation since 2017.
A bill with a strange denomination that was issued in Myanmar (then Burma) at the behest of the ruler, there is No Wine in honor of his own 75th birthday.
Yes, the bill depicts an undressed woman with a coconut in her hands, riding a shark.