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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aktamge" data-source="post: 8640827" data-attributes="member: 312646">Switzerland (Francs)“For such a seemingly staid bunch, the Swiss have fairly wild paper  money. The back of the 100 Franc bill, shown here, might at first seem  to be a still from a new remake of “Night of the Walking Dead,” but no,  it’s actually a tribute to Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti  (1901-1966), and the figures are some of his signature works.<img src="http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9610/mostbeautifulcurrency01o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Comoros (Comorian Franc)“Another small island nation — this time off Africa’s east coast, north  of Madagascar — the Comoros were controlled by the French for 130 years  before gaining independence in 1975. The peaceful, dreamlike quality of  this image, with its ghostly superimposed suggestion of a nautilus  shell, may be a bit of wishful thinking, since the Comoros’ history  since independence has been a stormy one riddled with coups.”<img src="http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9637/mostbeautifulcurrency02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Cook Islands (Cook Island Dollars)Hard to say why this woman seems so tranquil and happy, since she is  riding a giant ferocious shark, but it’s probably just the vibes from  living in the Cook Islands, which are still in the middle of nowhere.  The islands are about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii, with no  high-rise hotels or resorts, and mercifully few tourists to junk things  up. Come to think of it, that shark looks sort of blissed-out, too.”<img src="http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2792/mostbeautifulcurrency03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Faroe Islands (Kronurs)“Okay, maybe it’s not that beautiful, although the asymmetrical design  and the somehow come-hither claws are pretty fetching. But the Faroe  Islands, in the far North Atlantic about halfway between Iceland and  Norway, have a bleak windswept beauty, and the people have great  character. You gotta <a href="http://www.forwardedemails.com/category/love" target="_blank">love</a> a place that puts a crab on its money.”<img src="http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7594/mostbeautifulcurrency04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The French Pacific Territories (Franc)“Hard to get much lovelier than the one-two of the <a href="http://www.forwardedemails.com/110-face" target="_blank">face</a>  and back of this note from French Polynesia. But then the islands  encompassed by the territory pretty much define paradise: Tahiti,  Moorea, Bora Bora, Hiva Oa, Nuku Hiva, made part of our imaginative  landscape by artists and writers such as Paul Gauguin, Robert Lewis  Stevenson, Somerset Maugham, Herman Melville, and even Jimmy Buffett.”<img src="http://img574.imageshack.us/img574/2858/mostbeautifulcurrency05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Hong Kong (Hong Kong Dollars)“In Hong Kong, they seem to have gone just about as far as you can go, money-design wise. But then Hong Kong  often seems to be cheerfully humming along in the 23rd century. It  makes New York City feel kind of sleepy and slow. So the futuristic  money fits perfectly. And as a practical matter, it’s an example of a  trend in paper currency toward major-league complexity, the better to thwart would-be counterfeiters.”<img src="http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1236/mostbeautifulcurrency06.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Iceland (Kronurs)Now, that’s a hat! It even seems to require a neck brace to hold it up.  The model for this striking fashion statement is Ragnheiour Jonsdottir.  She lived 1646-1715 and was most noted for being the wife of not one but  two successive Icelandic bishops, though she was also a celebrated seamstressteaching a couple of students on the back.” as well. That’s Ragnheiour <img src="http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/2928/mostbeautifulcurrency07.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The Maldives (Rufiyaa) “A true beauty, this bill is from the Republic of Maldives in the<a href="http://www.nriworld.in/" target="_blank"> Indian</a><a href="http://www.nriworld.in/" target="_blank"> India</a>.  Beyond fishing and collecting coconuts—the centerpiece on this  bill—there’s little livelihood, and Maldives is one of the poorest  countries in the world. This is doubly ironic, since cowrie shells  (shown as part of the decorative border along the bottom) were the  world’s first international commodity-currency, and the Maldive Islands  were their primary source.” Ocean, a chain of about 1,300 islands and cays scattered for 500 miles southwest of<img src="http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/8065/mostbeautifulcurrency08.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />New Zealand (New Zealand Dollars) “Sir Edmund Hillary, on this New Zealand $5, ranks as Most Rugged  Outdoorsman on world money, with his weather-crinkled eyes, windblown  hair, and open-throated shirt casually askew. Even the color  suggests the lifelong tan only acquired by someone who at 33 was the  first to stand on top of Mount Everest in 1953, who led the first  successful expedition to cross Antarctica via the South Pole in 1958,  and who climbed to the source of the Ganges River in the Himalayas in  1977. This is pretty heady stuff for a man whose first occupation was as  a beekeeper.”<img src="http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9151/mostbeautifulcurrency09.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sao Tome & Principe (Dobras) “A tiny nation in the Gulf of Guiana, off the western equatorial  African coast, these volcanic islands bill bill themselves as “Paradise  On Earth.” It could be: Splendid beaches and fascinating wildlife,  including the endemic Sao Tome kingfisher (Alcedo thomensis) pictured  here.”<img src="http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2402/mostbeautifulcurrency10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Ape thava yaluvek me gena dala tibuna....oyalata thava balagana puluvan........Mena link aka <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=727747" target="_blank">http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=727747</a>Hoda nam +Rep dena amthaka karana epa...                                                                                                                                                  (අන්තර්ජාලය අසුරිනි)</blockquote>

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