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Digging for Dollars German style

Digging for Dollars German style

Digging for Dollars, German style By: Marc Bink Shift work is hard. It’s the classic “hurry up and wait” scenario that only people in the military can understand; hours of sheer drudgery interspersed with a few moments of terror. The other night I was hard at work and had a couple of hours to kill. I soon found myself looking at a couple of coin and banknote websites. Not really looking at anything in particular, it struck me that East German banknotes are still revoltingly expensive. These things had become the bane of my existence as a coin collector. Every time I had made any kind of a … [Read more...]

Tagged With: Bundesbank, de-Nazified, Deutsche-Mark, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Notenbank, StaatsbankFiled Under: Articles

Defacing Coins as a Form of Political Action

Defacing Coins as a Form of Political Action

Defacing Coins as a Form of Political Action: Royal Canadian Mint Sues Dogwood Initiative over ‘Loony Idea’ By: Graham Sproule. “No person shall, except in accordance with a licence granted by the Minister, melt down, break up or use otherwise than as currency any coin that is current and legal tender in Canada.” - Article 11, Currency Act Controversy brings media attention, and breaking the law for the sake of the ‘greater good’ is always controversial. The current legal fight between a British Columbia environmentalist group, Dogwood Initiative, and the Royal Canadian Mint has … [Read more...]

Tagged With: Defacing, Dogwood Initiative, Greenpeace, loonies, No Tanker Loonie, notankers, oil slickFiled Under: Articles

French Experiments with Paper Money – Part 3

French Experiments with Paper Money – Part 3

French Experiments with Paper Money - Part 3 “Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” By: Pierre Driessen The Revolutionary government, having assumed the debts of the previous regime, found itself in dire financial straits. In addition to this fiscal burden, domestically it faced a deteriorating economy, shortages of food and other basics, falling tax revenues, factionalism, political unrest and in certain regions civil war. France confronted invasion from outside and her colonies and their commerce were threatened. Bottom line, government credit had … [Read more...]

Tagged With: assignat, Bonaparte, French, mandats, NapoleonFiled Under: Articles

French Experiments with Paper Money – Part 2

French Experiments with Paper Money – Part 2

French Experiments with Paper Money - Part 2 By: Pierre Driessen Following the collapse of John Law’s “System”, the French government’s finances became desperate. Royal debt had tripled between 1715 and 1722, credit was drying up, interest rates were soaring and the crown’s credibility had been severely tarnished. Over time however, through governmental and administrative reforms and a program of careful diplomatic, economic and tax policies, the finances of the Bourbon monarchy were placed on a more sound footing. The corner stone of this program was the use of diplomacy to advance … [Read more...]

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French Experiments with Paper Money – Part 1

French Experiments with Paper Money – Part 1

French Experiments with Paper Money - Part 1 By: Pierre Driessen This article was sparked by a conversation with a dealer at a recent coin show. As I was admiring the nice mandat he had for sale, the dealer surprised me with his questions. He was wondering exactly what it was, who issued it and how it worked? As we were talking, I was struck by the similarities between the story of this mandat and present day experimentation with paper money by governments all over the world. The mandat, a form of paper money, was issued by the Revolutionary government of France at the close of the 18th … [Read more...]

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The Planchet © ~ Mar 2023 Issue

ENS award winning "The Planchet ©" A Numismatic publication offering info on society events, articles on coins, paper money, tokens and medals. In our March 2023 edition... Page 6 - The British Columbia Centennial Dollars// Page 10 - Hiketas and The Young Zeus // Page 19 - My Road to the Bells of Lübeck // Page 30 - Two Gold Staters from the Kingdom of the Bosporus

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