One for design focussed numismatists: the 1 and 2 rupee coins from a recent trip to India include fingers, in part as a way to …
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A young Muammar al Gaddafi on a Libyan banknote – currency as authority, and how to undermine it? Yasser the driver in our Alexandria hotel. …
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Stepped out of a series of ad-hoc interviews with hawala agents, to find this gent punting this 1910 hundred rouble banknote to the currency dealers …
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Money changer, Jeju Airport, practicing kanji.
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Using people and events from local history to give a currency authority and relevance – here on an 10,000 Ghanian Cedis (0.7 Euros) note. The …
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Run a decent sized (two week, 25+ person team) field study in emerging markets it’s highly likely that you end up handling a lot of …
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