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Showing posts with label piastre. Show all posts
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Sunday, 11 June 2017

A GOOD DAY AT THE ANTIQUES FAIR













Normally I would list these individually but thought as I bought them all at the same antique fair.

So firstly we have a 50 Riels from Cambodia issued in 1972 and the front  has fishermen fishing from a boat - one on each side of the note, while the reverse has Angkor wat temple complex.

More notes from Cambodia Here

The second note is called a guerrilla note from the Philippines. during WWII the Japanese occupied the Philippines and issued its own money but resistance fighters gathered in the different provinces and had their own underground governments and this was their currency, this note was from the Negros island and is for 10 pesos.

find more notes from the Philippines HERE

you can find more info and this website that documents all the wartime money used in the Philippines

www.guerrilla-money.com

The third  note is a 10 dalasi note from The Gambia.This note, from 1996, has the sacred ibis in the centre of the front of the note with a child on the right. The reverse has the Abuko earth satellite station

More Gambian notes HERE

The next note is the 25 Piastres note from Sudan and it was issued in 1985. The front has a camel and the map of Sudan while the reverse has the Central bank of Sudan building.

More Sudan notes HERE


And finally, the last two notes are from Ethiopia. The two are similar but from different dates. Both have a boy and some long horn cows on the front and the reverse has two white throated bee-eaters and the waterfall at Tisisat. 

The first note is green and has the signature of Teferra Deguefe which dates it to 1976 . The second one, which  is black / brown on a multi coloured background is dated at 1998. There are also differing symbols on the reverse  in the far right centre.



Wednesday, 1 February 2017

VIETNAM VERSION FROM FRENCH INDO-CHINA




This note is a delightful note from French Indochina and was one of the last issues before france pulled out and the various countries became independent. This note was circulated around what is now, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

this note is a 1 Piastre (100 piastre = 1 dong) note and each of the notes have the same front (local flora) but the reverse had different pictures depending on which country it was issued in. This note has a temple dragon so it is from the Vietnam area. Cambodia had the royal house boat and Laos had a pagoda .

more french indochina notes HERE and HERE





 By PHGCOM - self-made, adapted from Public Domain, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4733176





Saturday, 9 July 2016

BRITISH OCCUPATION OF CYPRUS



If the previous note was large then this one is tiny  6cm x 4cm ( 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in ). here we have a 3 piastre note with George VI on the front . Cyprus became a crown colony of Britain in 1925 and they fought along side  the  British in WWII.  The Greek Cypriots wanted independence from Britain at the end of the war whereas the Turkish Cypriot wanted British rule to continue.The Bitish Occupation would continue until 1960.

My friend has a holiday home in Kyrenia (Girne in Turkish ) and my friend Hammam goes to the American university there, It looks an amazing place but very hot !!.

more Cypriot Notes HERE and HERE