Rainbow_stamps_and_coins

In the previous post on Belgian Emergency notes from Bruges, I mentionned 4 bodies were responsible for issuing emergency currency. 3 of th...

Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A, B, C, when you sing you begin with do, r...

In order to have an idea of the value of some emergency notes, and of currency in 1914 in general, we need to know what the average costs of...

When talking about 'Notgeld' or 'Emergency Money', you might think that this is a typical phenomenon for Germany. When googl...

There is so much to say about Emergency Money - and in extention about replacement coupons - that a bit of a guidline might be useful. To ...

From the beginning of the first world war, a shortage of metals forced a lot of countries to redraw their coins out of circulation. Silver c...

Another - small - contribution to the hologram stamps, goes back to 1999. The Netherlands issued 2 stamps to honour or promote stamps and s...

Somehow it's a pity to waste much time and effort to a fake set of notes, such as the (in)famous Mavrodi biletovs. However I noticed so...

According a song, there is an awful lot of coffee in Brazil. Aparently that much, that there is enough to add fragrance to a stamp issued i...

Two things are forever ... Diamonds and... Strawberry Fields! So far I have no stamps with diamonds so you'll have to do it with strawb...