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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 241, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Is there an echo in here?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I see no one is interested in Paper Money.&nbsp; I wonder why?</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually started a set of Physicist on Banknotes.&nbsp; Some were pretty easy: countries with weak currencies like Italy (Galileo, Marconi), and Poland (Eva Sklodowska Curie) and Yugoslavia (Nikola Tesla) have notes you can afford.&nbsp; With Denmark (Bohr) and other prosperous places, the notes are about on par with America&#039;s Benjamin Franklin at $50 minimum.</p><p>The American Institute of Physics started a list on their website but the link no longer works.&nbsp; However, other places have continued it, such as:</p><p>http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to get a look at a bunch and not spend a lot of money, you can go to a coin show, of course.&nbsp; One thing I do for Halloween, is I get Coin World and write to several dealers selling &quot;collector lots&quot; of world banknotes for about $25 per 50 or 100.&nbsp; I spend less on that than my wife does on candy for the Trick-or-Treaters.&nbsp; I love opening the envelopes.&nbsp; Not everything goes out the door on October 31.</p><p><br /></p><p>(And I am not going to beat this to death or reply to myself again.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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