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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 3236709, member: 74968&quot;]Here is a piece of Canadian &quot;money&quot; you might not be familiar with. From 1685 to 1714 in what was New France and is now the province of Quebec there was a shortage of money. Those in charge gathered up playing cards and on the backs they wrote denominations. Also on the baks were the names of the officials responsible for issuing the money. The playing cards were used for money for a few decades in total. They were supposed to be exchanged for coinage coming from France but the shipments were often delayed. Therefore some form of money was necessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>The face cards were worth the most and today they still are. I ended up with the ten of spades instead in a recent Canadian auction. All of these are very rare today. Playing cards were also used as money during the French revolution. Those ones are even rarer than the example I have.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]846433[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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