Comments on: Name that currency, and sew it to a jourunal

Question: Name that currency, and sew it to a jourunal

leapingsheep — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:55:07 -0800

Can you identify these international currencies? And/or can you think of a way for me to sew paper to a journal cover?

The bills may no longer be in circulation.

As for the crafty part of the question: ideally, I'd like to treat the bills with something that will render them strong enough and pliable enough to be sewn through without being damaged. Is there a way?

By: mds35

mds35 — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:58:44 -0800

The bottom note is from Nepal. Jeez, can't you read devanagari?

I have a bookmark made from the same note which has been laminated. Laminating them might make it easier to sew.

By: Lucinda

Lucinda — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:04:21 -0800

It might be easier to scan the currency to an iron-on transfer and then put it on fabric. (My mother has done this with family photos on crazy quilts.)

By: cobaltnine

cobaltnine — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:06:18 -0800

The top one is the Ukraine, I believe.

As for sewing, I'd do more of a 'encase in plastic' and sew the clear plastic into the shape you want, if it were me.

By: NekulturnY

NekulturnY — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:06:23 -0800

The top one says "UKRAINA" in Cyrillic.

By: cardboard

cardboard — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:07:17 -0800

The top one looks like it says "Ukraine".

By: cardboard

cardboard — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:08:12 -0800

Well, I think that's settled.

By: leapingsheep

leapingsheep — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:09:25 -0800

Is there anything the hive mind doesn't know? Thanks, everyone.

By: JJ86

JJ86 — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:15:44 -0800

The top one says "coupon" in cyrillic. Funny name for a currency!

By: brianogilvie

brianogilvie — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:37:27 -0800

As JJ86 noted, the top one is a Ukrainian coupon. It reads: "Ukraine/Coupon/1/Karbovanets/National Bank of Ukraine." The coupon, aka karbovanets, was a transitional currency used in Ukraine from 1992 until the introduction of the Hryvnia in 1996.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:20:24 -0800

And (just to add more useless information) karbóvanets is also the Ukrainian name of the Russian ruble.

By: forwebsites

forwebsites — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:35:27 -0800

The bottom one says :

"Shree Nepal Rashtra Bank.
Rupaiyya Ek"

Ek = One

So it's a one rupee note.

Funny how they've prefixed a "Shree", which is a title (a la "Mr.") before "Nepal Rashtra Bank, ie. National bank of Nepal.

Anyone knows why that would be so? and whose the military guy on the note?

By: o2b

o2b — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:49:15 -0800

forwebsites -- possibly it's for the same reason that the Japanese sometimes refer to Mount Fuji as o-Fuji, if I'm remembering correctly.

The 'o' is an honorific usually applied to people ('o-sensei'), as in 'the honorable mount fuji'.

The Nepalese honor their banks, I guess.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:53:50 -0800

Anyone know why the massive blank space on the Nepal note? Is it supposed to be stamped with something?

By: leapingsheep

leapingsheep — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:08:44 -0800

Mitheral, there is a watermark in the blank spot, but I can't make out what it is. For the journal I want to either glue an interesting coin to that spot, or cut it out to reveal some yet to be thought of hilarious thing/person.

By: blue mustard

blue mustard — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:15:59 -0800

I believe the watermark is the crown of the royal family. Slow loading picture here.