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French 5,000 francs „Flameng”: an artistic masterpiece that has been waiting twenty years to be put into circulation

There are few banknotes whose history can compete with the opulence of their artistic design. The French 5,000 francs of 1918, known as the „Flameng”, belong to this group. The banknote combines allegorical figures, a Parisian panorama and rich ornamentation with an unusual destiny: it was created from a project for an entirely different denomination, produced

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Lebanese “magic carpet”

In the world of notaphily, there are banknotes that have “that certain something,” a magical beauty that appeals not only to paper money enthusiasts, but also to lovers of everything pleasing to the eye. Such banknotes are not only interesting because they were a means of payment, but also because they carry within them the spirit

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The enigmatic short-term circulation of the 100-dinar banknote of the National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia dated July 15, 1934.

It is known that the banknotes of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia are the product of the „French school“ of banknote printing. The first issues of royal Yugoslav banknotes (with the exception of the 10 dinar banknote of November 1, 1920, which was produced by the American Bank Note Co., New York) were designed and manufactured

The enigmatic short-term circulation of the 100-dinar banknote of the National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia dated July 15, 1934. Read more »

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