Croatia

Croatia 1 Dinars 1991 UNC
Front: Ruder Baskovic (1711-1781)
Back: Zagreb Cathedral

Croatia

Croatia 10 Dinars 1991 UNC
Front: Ruder Baskovic (1711-1781)
Back: Zagreb Cathedral

Croatia

Croatia 25 Dinars 1991 UNC
Front: Ruder Baskovic (1711-1781)
Back: Zagreb Cathedral

Croatia

Croatia 100 Dinars 1991 UNC
Front: Ruder Baskovic (1711-1781)
Back: Zagreb Cathedral

Zagreb Cathedral, The building of the cathedral started in the 11th century (1093), although the building was razed to the ground by the Tatars in 1242. At the end of the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire invaded Bosnia and Croatia, triggering the construction of fortification walls around the cathedral. Some of these fortifications are still intact. In the 17th century, a fortified renaissance watchtower was erected on the south side, and was used as a military observation point, because of the Ottoman threat. In 1880, the cathedral was severely damaged in an earthquake. The main nave collapsed and the tower was damaged beyond repair. The restoration of the cathedral in the neogothic style was made by Hermann Bollé, bringing the cathedral to its present form. As part of that restoration, two spires of 105 m (344 ft) height were raised on the western side, both of which are in the process of being restored during a massive general restoration of the cathedral.
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Croatia

Croatia 50000 Dinara 1993 UNC
Front: Ruder Baskovic (1711-1781)
Back: Statue of seated Glagolica, Mother Croatia
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Croatia

Croatia 100000 Dinars 1993 UNC
Front: Ruder Boškovic (Rudjer Boshkovich) - Croatian mathematician,
astronomer and physicist
Back: Statue of Glagolica Mother Croatia
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Portugal

Portugal 100 Escudos 1965 UNC
Front: Camilo Castelo Branco (March 16, 1825 - July 1, 1890)
Back: Porto, Meados Do Seculo XIX
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Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco
was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having authored over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays). His writing is, overall, considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm, bitterness and dark humour. He is also celebrated for his peculiar wit and anecdotal character, as well as for his turbulent (and ultimately tragical) biography.

His writing, which is centered in the local and the picturesque and is in a general sense affiliated with the Romantic tradition, is often regarded in contrast to that of Eça de Queiroz - a cosmopolitan dandy and a fervorous proponent of Realism, who was Camilo's literary contemporary in spite of being 20 years younger. In this tension between Camilo and Eça - often dubbed by critics the literary guerilla - many have interpreted a synthesis of the two great tendencies present in the Portuguese literature of the 19th century.

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Portugal

Portugal 20 Escudos 1978 UNC
Front: Admiral Coutinho
Back: 1922-Gago Countinho Inica a Navegacao area Astronomica
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Portugal

Portugal 20 Escudos 1971 UNC
Front: Garcia De Orta (1501 or 1502 – 1568)
Back: O Mercado De Goa Seculo XVI
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Garcia de Orta (1501 or 1502 – 1568) was a Renaissance Portuguese Jewish physician and naturalist. He was a pioneer of tropical medicine.

Garcia de Orta's busy practice evidently prevented him travelling beyond the west coast of India, but in the busy market and trading hub of Goa he met spice merchants, traders and physicians from many parts of southern Asia and the Indian Ocean coasts. He was confident in Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Latin, Greek and Arabic; his work shows that he also had some knowledge of Persian, Marathi, Konkani, Sanskrit and Kannada. Correspondents and agents sent him seeds and plants; he also traded in spices, drugs and precious stones. He evidently kept a laboratory and botanical garden.

Title page of Garcia de Orta's Colóquios. Goa, 1563.
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Portugal

The town centre of Sintra.
Sintra is both a town and a municipality in Portugal, located in the Grande Lisboa subregion and the Lisbon Region. The town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on account of its 19th century Romantic architecture. The town of Sintra refuses to be promoted to City Status, despite being the center of the second most populated municipality of Portugal.

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Portugal 50 Escudos 1968 UNC
Front: Infanta Dona Maria
Back: Sintra in 1507
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Peru

Peru 50 Soles 1977 UNC
Front: Túpac Amaru II
Back: Historic town of Tinta


Túpac Amaru II (José Gabriel Túpac Amaru b. March 19, 1742 in Tinta, Cusco, Peru – executed in Cusco May 18, 1781) was the leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish occupation of Peru. Although unsuccessful, he later became a mythical figure in the Peruvian struggle for independence and indigenous rights movement and an inspiration to a myriad of causes in Peru. He should not be confused with Túpac Katari who led a similar uprising in the region now called Bolivia at the same time

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Peru

Peru 50 Intis 1987 UNC
Front: Nicolás de Piérola
Back: Drilling rig


H.E. Don Jose Nicolás Baltasar Fernández de Piérola y Villena (known as "El Califa" ("The Caliph"); January 5, 1839 – June 23, 1913) was a prominent Peruvian politician, the Finance Minister and twice President of the Republic of Peru (from 1879 to 1881 and 1895 to 1899).

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Serbia

Serbia 10 Dinara 2000 UNC
Portrait of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić; members of the First Slavic Congress held in Prague in 1848 and vignette of the letters Vuk introduced. Banknote was originally released in 2000 in predominantly ochre-yellow colour with brown and green tones. It is gradually replaced with slightly lighter 2006 issue.


Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (November 7, 1787 - February 7, 1864) was a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language.

Major works
Primer of the Serbian language (1814)
Dictionary of the Serbian language (1st ed. 1818, 2nd ed. 1852)
New Testament (translation into Serbian) (1st partial ed.1824, 1st complete ed. 1847, 2nd ed. 1857)
Serbian folk tales (1821, 1853, 1870 and more)
Serbian folk poems, vol. 1 (1841)
Serbian epic poetry (1845 and more)
Deutsch-Serbisches Wörterbuch (German-Serbian Dictionary) 1872
Biography of hajduk Veljko Petrović (Житије Хајдук-Вељка Петровића)

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Serbia

Serbia 20 Dinara 2006 UNC
Portrait of Petar II Petrović Njegoš; 2006 edition features his figure on the back, instead of the statue from the Mausoleum on Mount Lovćen. Banknote was originally released in 2000 in predominantly green colour with ochre-yellow, and with brown and yellow tones, and it is somewhat darker than the National Bank of Serbia issue.

Radivoje "Rade" Tomov Petrović was born on 13 November (1 November Old Style), 1813 in the village of Njeguši, the capital of the Montenegrin district Katunska Nahija as the son of Tomo Markov Petrović and Ivana Proroković Petrović. He had two brothers, Pero and Jovan, as well as two sisters. His family was the House of Petrović-Njegoš - a dynasty that served as the Prince-Bishops of Montenegro for over a century. At the time of his birth, Montenegro did not exist as a modern state. The borders of its territory were undefined and Montenegro was not recognized as independent from the Ottoman Empire, while its de jure ruler was a Venetian-imposed Governor. Power actually lay with the squabbling, disunited clan chiefs, who variously recognised the authority of the Austrian Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Ottoman Empire or the Cetinje Metropolitan (Prince-Bishop).

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Serbia

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš was a Serb Orthodox Prince-Bishop of Montenegro and a ruler who transformed Montenegro from a theocracy into a secular state. However, he is most famous as a poet and is considered by many to be among the greatest poets of the Serbian language.



Serbia and Yugoslavia 20 Dinara 2000 UNC
Front: Petar II Petrović Njegoš
Back: Statue from the Mausoleum on Mount Lovćen

Grecce

Grecce 200 Drachmai 1996 XF
Front: Rigas Velestinlis, People playing and singing; "The one who thinks freely, thinks well";
Back: "The Secret School" An oil painting by Nikolaos Gyzis;
Nicholaos Gysis (Greek, 1 March 1842-1901) is considered one of Greece's most important nineteenth century painters and is most famous for his work Eros and the Painter: his first genre painting, recently auctioned at Bonhams in London and last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He is the major representative of the Greek 19th century art movement of the Munich School.

He was born in the island of Tinos which has a long artistic history. He then came to Athens to study at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

In 1865, having won a scholarship, he went to continue his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he settled for the rest of his life. He was very soon incorporated into the German pictorial climate, and became one of its most characteristic representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. This is expressed in the painting News of Victory of 1871, which deals with the Franco-Prussian War, and the painting Apotheosis i Thriamvos tis Vavarias (Apotheosis or Triumph of Bavaria).

From 1886 onward he was professor at the Academy of Munich, and gradually turned from the detailed realistic depictions towards compositions of a singularly impressionistic character. At the beginning of the 1870s returned to Greece for a period of several years, after which he produced a sequence paintings with more avowedly Greek themes, such as the Carnival at Athens and the Arravoniasmata Engagement Ceremony and a little later the painting After the destruction of Psara. Towards the end of his life, in the 1890s, he took a turn toward more religious themes, with his best known work of the later period being Triumph of Religion[1]. His works are today exhibited at museums and private collections in Greece, Germany and elsewhere.

Gysis' painting The Secret School was depicted on the reverse of the Greek 200 drachmas banknote of 1996-2001

Rigas Feraios or Rigas Velestinlis was a Greek writer and revolutionary, an eminent figure of Greek Enlightenment, remembered as a Greek national hero, the first victim of the uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a forerunner of the Greek War of Independence.

He entered into communication with Napoleon, to whom he sent a snuff-box made of the root of a laurel tree taken from the temple of Apollo, and eventually he set out with a view to meeting the general of the Army of Italy in Venice. While traveling there, Feraios was betrayed by Demetrios Oikonomos Kozanites, a Greek merchant,[2] had his papers confiscated, and was arrested at Trieste by the Austrian authorities (an ally of the Ottoman Empire, Austria was concerned the French Revolution might provoke similar upheavals in its realm and later formed the Holy Alliance). He was handed over with his accomplices to the Ottoman governor of Belgrade where he was imprisoned and tortured. Immediately on arrest he attempted suicide. From Belgrade, he was to be sent to Constantinople to be sentenced by Sultan Selim III. While in transit, he and his five collaborators were strangled to prevent their rescue by Feraios' friend Osman Pazvantoğlu. Their bodies were thrown into the Danube River. Feraios' last words are reported as being: "I have sown a rich seed; the hour is coming when my country will reap its glorious fruits".
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Pakistan

No longer in Circulation
Pakistan 1 Rupees UNC Before 2005
Back: Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal in Lahore


He was one of the major inspirations behind the Pakistan Movement, and is revered in Pakistan as Muffakir-e-Pakistan (The Thinker of Pakistan) or Shair-e-Mashriq (The Poet of the East).[4] Iqbal died on April 21, 1938 in Lahore at the age of 60. Since the independence of Pakistan, an academy named after him (Iqbal Academy) has been established to promote and disseminate his poetical and philosophical messages and teachings. As another tribute, the recently renovated Lahore airport has also been named after him as Allama Iqbal International Airport.
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Pakistan

Pakistan 2 Rupees UNC
No Longer in Circulation
Back: Badshahi Masjid in Lahore


The Badshahi Mosque or the 'Emperor's Mosque', in Lahore is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. It is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era.

Capable of accommodating 10,000 worshippers in its main prayer hall and 100,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the
*largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the
*second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Construction of the Badshahi Mosque was ordered in May 1671 by the sixth Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, who assumed the title 'Alamgir'. Construction took about two years and was completed in April 1673. The construction work was carried out under the supervision of Aurangzeb's foster brother Muzaffar Hussain (also known as Fidaie Khan Koka) who was appointed Governor of Lahore in May 1671 and held this post until 1675. He was also Master of Ordnance to the Emperor. The mosque was built opposite the Lahore Fort, illustrating its stature in the Mughal Empire. In conjunction with the building of the mosque, a new gate was built at the Fort, named Alamgiri Gate after the Emperor.

Badshahi Mosque was badly damaged and misused during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The mosque was used as a stable for the horses of Ranjit Singh' army. During Ranjit Singh's reign, Muslims were not allowed to enter the mosque to worship; they were only given a small place outside the mosque where they could worship.
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Croatia - Kuna

UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION
Croatia 100 Kuna 1941 G
Arms - Nazi Occupation

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