Just changed apartments... my dad while helping me move, dropped and broke my printer/scanner. He did get me another one though... not being able to find the same model I had before, he got me a better one! So it all worked out in the end... Anyway on my new scanner, I scanned these 4 notes I just got in the mail: Bhutan, 1 ngultrum, 2006 Another part of the Dragon Collection! I think the color scheme works out better than the 1986 note did; not as crowded with the colors, allows the images to stand out more. Afghanistan, 1 afghani, 2002 Love the doves flying in front of the mosque on the back... really helps the image to stand out, really dynamic. This building stands out too... Azerbaijan, 100 manat, 1993 This unique tower depicted here is specially designed to anchor it against sandstorms. Really revolutionary architecture. Speaking of revolutionary... Cuba, 3 pesos, 2004 Whatever else you thought of Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967), you can't deny this is a great iconic image of him. (I love the irony that the image of a communist revolutionary earns millions of dollars in merchandising every year, lol...). On the back, to show he's not just someone who lazily poses for pictures, Che is hard at work cutting sugarcane. Have 4 more notes I'm expecting in the mail... will post them when they show up!
i hate moving!!!! hope you enjoy the new living space!! Colll notes trodon! and you posted a note to a country i have never heard of Azerbaijan... a new one i will need to look for lol
Thanks! I do... much better location, and now my window has a view of a park and the fields of a high school rather than a busy road and an auto parts store. I hate moving too but it was worth it this time, plan on staying here quite a while. As for Azerbaijan, it borders Armenia, Iran, and the Caspian Sea... this bill is from when they had just recently become independent from the Soviet Union breakup.
The earlier Cuban notes were printed by STC in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia. The more recent Cuban notes have the look and feel of something likely printed in Cuba itself. There are other ironies of Che Guevera, like the fact that he "resigned" from his directorship of the Banco Nacional to take the revolution to Latin America, and was "martyred" in Bolivia, ostensibly by the CIA, but more likely by his compadres, he was a political threat to Fidel Castro Ruiz, and he needed to be liquidated. Another irony of him being on Cuban notes, he wasn't even Cuban, but Argentinian, and even was portrayed in the movie "Evita" as an Argentinian revolutionary in his younger days. If one doubts that Fidel Castro Ruiz would doff him off, Stalin doffed off Sergey Kirov, the very popular party leader from Leningrad when his head got too big to tolerate.
Could have an entire thread just on Che (though would be more appropriate in the PRWE forum) but the main thing I've always found interesting about him is how the image of Che has become so much more famous and well known than he is. The iconic portrait of him is everywhere it seems... though I've stopped and asked people wearing Che T-shirts how much they knew about Che Guevara. Most didn't even know what his last name was, much less any details about the person himself. There's just something about the whole image and symbol of him that seems to have transcended the actual person. Of course it could just be multi-cultural chic rather than his status as a revolutionary that popularised him image. On a similar note, I recall a prerson in Japan wearing a Malcolm X hat being asked what he knew about Malcolm X... he was under the impression he was a famous rap star. I think the same thing may explain the prolific nature of the Che image... people just think the image looks cool despite having no knowledge of what it was originally intended to represent.
I don't believe for one moment that most people wearing those shirts would if they knew more about the person they are playing idolatry to. Even Fidel Castro Ruiz is a better human that Che was, barely.
Well probably not, like I said, his image has transcended anything he actually believed or stood for, and it's unlikely many who wear his portrait on a T-shirt or put a bumper sticker on their car with ihs picture, etc., even know who he was, much less anything about what he believed. He at least did sincerely believe that what he did was for the betterment of the world, and was willing to die for what he believed. That's not automatically something worthy of respect of course, because you can say the same thing about the 9/11 hijackers. Still, you can't fault him for his motivations at least. He saw people suffering throughout the world, and wanted to do something to help them. What he wanted to do was the wrong thing, but one can argue that's still better than nothing. Maybe. One can look at how Cuba turned out after its revolution and see if the people there are any better off than before... it's certaintly no utopia, based on how many people are willing to risk their lives trying to leave. Anyway I just wanted to share these new notes I added to my collection; didn't want to trun this into a politcial discussion about Che, a controversial figure whose legacy for better or worse is still much debated. I'm not going to add anything more to discussing Che but if anyone wants to talk about these 4 notes I posted I'll be glad to add to that discussion.
So, lemme think about this: Your Dad helps you move. I presume at no charge. Makes a mistake. Then winds up finishing your move & has to buy you a new scanner? Does anyone else see something wrong with this picture?
Well he did... the new printer/scanner though was an excellent follow-up to the apology though lol...
