A new banknote in my collection

[ambr0zie]

Before dedicating completely to ancients, I was a modern coins and banknotes collector. Especially from my country - Romania. I said "was" because all my budget and interest has been allocated  to ancients since discovering them. And anyway there are not many banknotes and (especially) coins missing from my collection, the ones missing having obscene prices even in modest conditions and appearing with a very, very low frequency.

But tonight I saw a Facebook auction on a local group, for a banknote that was missing from my collection - 1 leu 1937. Usually this banknote is not cheap but the combo of ink stains + a not very popular group allowed me to win it. And I am quite happy for this!

What is very interesting for me is, of course, the she wolf with the twins and also the 2 medallions - Trajan and King Decebal of Dacia.

This reminded me of other banknotes in my collection having these recurrent motifs.

5.000.000 lei 1947

100.000 lei and 1.000.000 lei 1947

Series of 5000 lei 1943-1945

Trajan's portrait was used as a watermark on 500 lei 1924-1938

The new banknote I bought will be a good match for the others I have having similar type - 1938 and 1920 (also I have the 1915 type)

 

 

Please post banknotes (and why not, coins) having ancient motifs. I am not skilled in world modern numismatics and notaphily, but I am sure other countries issued banknotes with ancient symbols.

 

Edited August 18, 2022 by ambr0zie

[seth77]

Pre-communism (and some post 1947 notes too) Romanian notes are very aesthetic. Especially the large ones.

[ambr0zie]

The oldest ones are the most attractive. And yep, some are very large.

 

My favorite one remains also the rarest banknote in my album - 100 lei type 1 (1881-1907). Those are rare and expensive, as you probably know, @seth77, if you are familiar with them . I was simply lucky to get 3 of them as I could have never dreamed of this.

Some ancient symbols presents on it - caduceus, cornucopiae

 

Watermarks of Trajan

and Roma (although for my eyes it could be Minerva)

Medallions of Roma (again, could be Minerva)

and, as per catalogue, Ceres

and having the central figure of Trajan on the reverse.

[Spaniard]

@ambr0zie..Congrats on a rare note!

I lived in Romania  for a full year (what a beautiful country you live in!), back in 1990 and remember collecting Lei coins and notes but I sold them all a few years later....

Here's my biggest and smallest bank notes with a Sestertius for scale.

[ambr0zie]

22 minutes ago, Spaniard said:

Here's my biggest and smallest bank notes with a Sestertius for scale.

🙂

1000 lei 1934 (as far as I know the largest Romanian banknote and considered one of the most beautiful) vs 10 bani 1917 (smallest Romanian banknote, actually an emergency paper coin, size of a stamp) vs a normal RR denarius

[seth77]

They look almost better than the French notes that were supposed to be available but they are so much rarer than the French notes of the period, especially those prior to 1914.

Edited August 18, 2022 by seth77

[seth77]

5 hours ago, Spaniard said:

@ambr0zie..Congrats on a rare note!

I lived in Romania  for a full year (what a beautiful country you live in!), back in 1990 and remember collecting Lei coins and notes but I sold them all a few years later....

Here's my biggest and smallest bank notes with a Sestertius for scale.

The LEU of the 1990s, especially the late period inflation notes remind me of the 1980s-90s Israeli shekelim ---- both are very aesthetic notes and very modern at the same time.

[UkrainiiVityaz]

For a long time the 10 bani note was considered the smallest issued banknote - but I have smaller examples from Ukraine, and Morocco.

I like Romanian banknotes and coinage from early 20th century.

 

 

[UkrainiiVityaz]

Love the depiction of the She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus