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Bulgaria had joined the Latin Monetary Union in 1889, in effect unifying it's currency with Romania, France, Italy, Switzerland etc. Unfortunately the devestating effects of WWI rendered the monetary union obsolete, and currencies once again floated, and lost value quickly. The Bulgarian Leva currency depreciated rapidly, and what had been a silver coin was now reduced to being a small change note that was printed by Waterlow and Sons in London in 1921. This particular note possesses several fascinating aspects, it is printed in old Cyrillic, and the spelling conventions of several of the words on this note have changed since that time. Many of the silent characters have since been eliminated from the Cyrillic alphabet. The reverse of the note displays the printers imprint, but curiously instead of London, uses the French rendering of the name, Londres. This is a reflection of the usage of French in Bulgaria as the international language, even notes printed into the early Communist era in Bulgaria bore French language reverses.

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A purchase from the FUN auction this weekend:

 

Standard Bank - $5 1891

 

Not in pretty condition, but five pretty girls on this note. The vignette on the right is classic ABNCo, and was used on Peruvian notes until the 1940's, the centre vignette is very unique to this note, and unique in design with her head tilted whilst she smells some flowers.

 

Canadian Charter Banks have some of the most colourful and lovely paper money around, and thankfully Canadian Bank of Commerce didn't have the monopoly on pretty notes.

 

This note was issued in the same date with three different colour varieties, one being grey, this orangish red, and then one in deep blue.

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Very nice additions to your collection ;) Now as for the ABC they produced over the years some wonderful banknotes for a great many contries as well as things like bonds etc here is a link to the wiki article on them.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Banknote_Company

 

There is also a fabulose book available with a great many of there notes pictured in it :ninja:

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Got these in the post today. I really like the design of these notes from Oman.

 

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Very vibrant colours banknote you got there Dave....Oman very colourfull notes. :ninja:

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