Re: CHAT: Hawaiian Money (was Re: NATLANG/FONT: the euro & 01.01.02)
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 15, 2001, 17:17 |
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Am 14.12.01, Anton Sherwood yscrifef:
> > Am 14.12.01, Nik Taylor yscrifef:
> > > I've already
> > > decided that the one-whatever bill will be nicknamed a "Lili" after
> > > Liliuokalani, whose face is on said bill, so perhaps "Lili" would come
> > > to be the colloquial term for the unit itself, like "buck" in American
> > > English. :-)
>
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > So, while we have "dead presidents", they've have "dead monarchs"!
>
> Has any state ever issued legal tender with a dead monarch's head?
The US did. The 1893 Columbian Expo quarters have Queen Isabella
on. Then of course, there was Norton I, but he was alive when
his money was issued. Otherwise, no. Minor nobility is well
represented with the likes of Lord Baltimore (1934 half), Marquee
Lafayette (1900 dollar) and Sir Walter Raleigh (1937 half).
No state I'm aware of issued any money with dead monarchs on.
Padraic.
Padraic.
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