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Articles for collectors, numismatics, philately, bonistics.
Interesting facts, studies, excursions into history.
Information about rare coins, banknotes, stamps and postcards.
Money for a red envelope for Chinese New Year
Banknotes are issued not only by central banks: in the UK, the right to issue their own banknotes is granted to 7 private banks, in the former British colony of Hong Kong-to 3 private banks.
Precocious masterpieces
'Only cats will be born quickly' ‒ the famous phrase of Ostap Bender was challenged by the popular Norwegian artist Espen Olsen Sotervik. And he began to draw pictures. But not just in oils or watercolors.
When a letter matters
Of course, you can pass a school essay, in which instead of 'painting' write 'zHyvopis'. In that case, the negligent student is threatened with 'failure' (for ZHI-SHI write through And!) and the deprivation of some rights and freedoms on the part of parents.
The horses are red, but not dappled
One of the most striking examples of my collection of paintings is a series of stamps dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.
Boris Godunov's Pskov Kopeck
Boris Godunov as a statesman deserves to highlight in his career not only the period of his stay on the Russian throne (1598-1605), but also the period when he actually determined the policy of the Russian state during the reign of Ivan the Terrible's son, Fyodor Ivanovich (1584-1598).
Don Rubles (part 5)
5,000 Don rubles is the largest of the denominations of the Don currency, and this bill is traditionally the largest – 226 mm x 115 mm, although it is inferior in size to the Nikolaev 'Petenka'.
Crocodile tears
Thinking about the events of world history that took place in the twentieth century, you come to confusion and horror from the number of lives lost by wars. First ‒ the carnage of the First World War, after-the bloody horrors of Nazism...
Skripofiliya, the Spanish bank of the XIX century and A. S. Pushkin
Skripophilia is the sister of bonistics, a hobby for those who collect old securities. We will talk about bills of exchange.
The first half of the XIX century: banknotes of private banks in the United States
'Wildcat notes”, 'broken banknotes', 'obsolete money' - these terms are used for banknotes of private American banks created and operated in the XIX century exclusively under the jurisdiction of individual states.
The last chervonets of the last Emperor
July marks the 103-year anniversary of the tragic execution of the Romanov royal family in Yekaterinburg. On the bloody altar of the revolution were sacrificed the lives of people whose names a few years ago were pronounced with reverence and sacred awe.
The Beggar's Pearl
After the wealthiest dynasty in history ‒ the Mughal dynasty ‒ had died out, in the mid-19th century there were many contenders to replace it as the rulers of India.
How to make and spend $1.4 million in 10 minutes
Or rather, not to the wind, but to the trash can. It was there that the painting of the British street art artist Banksy 'The Girl with the Ball'was sold under the hammer at a London auction.