For the last few days (taking advantage of annual leave) I have been staying in my cottage.
In the cottage that has always served us as a place where we store some things that we rarely or almost never use anymore.
I moved all such things from my parents' home into it, for which there was no space in the new apartment I moved into with my partner.
I always like to say that it's not a storage room, it's:
My place for collectibles from my youth 😀
I was dusting a display case and found my collection of paper money.
It's not any expensive collection, just a bunch of old paper money that reminded me of my youth.
There are a lot of banknotes from three eras of my youth, so I will present "my collection" to you through three stories 🙂
At the time when I lived in the country (that fell apart in 1991.) the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, we paid with these kinds of banknotes.
In those years (before 1991.), we vacationed mostly on the Croatian coast, on the Adriatic Sea, and there I hung out with boys and girls from various European countries.
There were children of Germans, Italians, Czechoslovaks, Poles, Hungarians, some Greeks, Macedonians...
And what was the most interesting for us?
Exchange and collection of banknotes
I can only imagine the expression on the faces of the parents, when they saw what we exchanged our pocket money for...
Like some 1:1 currency exchange, with no idea about exchange rates.
It was important for us that the banknotes were from another country, and that they had a nice picture 😀
And so, as a memory of those carefree childhood days, I have these banknotes left.
Banknotes of some countries that years later became members of the European Union and transferred their currencies to the Euro...
#Italy Lira
#Greece Drahma
Banknotes of some countries that are still on their currency, the only thing is that they are no longer valid...
#Poland Zloty
As well as banknotes of some countries that have separated or united.
The Crown from Czechoslovakia (split into the #Czechia and #Slovakia)
Mark from East Germany (united with West Germany into a #Germany, with the fall of the Berlin Wall).
When I look at pictures of this ship or miners, I always remember with sadness the old Yugoslavia, which fell apart in 1991.
This disintegration and putting these banknotes out of use will bring us a period of too difficult times, times of hyperinflation, in which we replaced these banknotes (I miss the red one with the image of a horse of 100 dinars and the gray one with the image of a girl of 1000 dinars) with a pile of useless paper...
And about that, another time...
Thank you for stopping by my post and I hope you enjoyed the photos and the story I shared with you
All photos are my property, taken with a mobile phone