28 September 2007

day in the life... Special Feature: The world's most worthless money


Clockwise from top left:
Russian 1 kopeck coins (It would take 2500 of these to equal US$1),
A big wad of rubles from Belarus (value of this stack? less than US$2),
Uzbeck 1 som coin (It would take 1250 of these to equal US$1),
Kyrgyz 1 tyiyn note (It would take 3500 of these to equal US$1!!! They don't have coins in the Kyrgyz Republic!)

All of these are valid legal tender in general circulation.

day in the life... Special Feature: Metro tokens of the former Soviet Union, collect them all!


Clockwise from top left: Tashkent, Minsk, Kiev, Tbilisi.

day in the life... Special Feature: Tamarind, the date of India