Some more of my notes. First is a Five Iraq Dinar note not sure on the date. 2nd is a 1 India Rupee note dated 1940. 3rd is a 20 note from Japan or China not sure which and also not sure on the date. Enjoy all. Fronts: Backs:
cool notes. It is possible thr Iraqi note is a newer note. I think this because it doesnt picture Saddam. I believe the notes before Saddam had the ruler at the time pictured as well... I could be wrong, but i think its a newer note :thumb: the other 2 notes i am not sure about. i dont have my books with me
One of the things I like about this forum is there is always someone to answer your question. thanks for sharing.
The Iraqi note is dated 1981 (AH 1401)... it is a Sadaam era note actually, pre-Gulf War... at a time when the Iraqi dinar was worth about 3 US dollars or so (so it would have been worth about $15 US at the time). I guess Sadaam wasn't put on that one for some reason... I'm not sure on the history of Iraqi currency, but a catalog should shown when he was on it. I think this may predate him being put on the currency though he was president and prime minister of Iraq at the time (since about 1979 until the Second Gulf War). The third note is a 20 baht note from Thailand. Can't read Thai to tell you the date, but the king pictured on it is the current one and the design is the current design, so can't be more than about 10 years old or so as far as I know.
Here is the answer to that question Troodon this is from Wikipedia: Banknotes issued between 1990 and October 2003, along with a 25-dinars note issued in 1986, bear an idealized engraving of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Following the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq's currency was printed both locally and in China, using poor grade wood pulp paper (rather than cotton or linen) and inferior quality lithography (some notes were reputedly printed on presses designed for printing newspapers). here is the link to the whole article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_dinar#Banknotes
No, it's not an error; they just hadn't put Sadaam on the note yet. As ShoeK pointed out they didn't start doing that until 1990 (1986 on the 25 dinar note). I have quite a few of the Sadaam notes, including the 10,000 dinar note printed in 2002 which was the last note printed before the invasion that deposed Sadaam. Has a serial number mismatch on it (apparently a fairly common error with them). This note was heavily counterfeited and a lot of people wouldn't take them... the highest value note otherwise was the 250 dinar note, somewhat incoveneient when the dinar dropped to 15,000 to the US dollar... people would have to pay with bundles of the notes. The irony is that between 1990 and 2002, counterfeit notes were often of higher quality than the real thing!
Nice notes!! I can't recall where, however, I did read somewhere that statues with a Horse and Rider if portrayed with the Horse's two legs in the air that the rider was killed in Battle? Anyone know the truth to this speculation? RickieB
This was all I could find out about it 20 Baht 1981 King Rama IX wearing Field Marshal uniform on front. Chantaburi with three armed men on reverse. Watermark Rama IX. p88
It is somewhat of a legend that may have once been partially true... some sculptors mayhave held to the convention once (all legs on ground, survived; one leg lifted, wounded; 2 legs lifted, died in battle) but there are several horse and rider statues that don't follow the rule so it appears to have been erratically followed and not widely held as any kind of strict rule. I know that in Gettysburg there are many Civil War monuments with statues of horse and rider that do not follow it, for example.
