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CNN: 700 Year Old Bank Note discovered
boimre1972
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(CNN) It's not every day you get to hold a 700-year-old banknote in your hands.
And for Ray Tregaskis, head of Asian art at Australia-based Mossgreen auction house, the rare opportunity felt like the discovery of a lifetime.
Tregaskis came across the treasure while inspecting the underside of a 14th-century wooden Buddhist sculpture.
There, hidden inside the cranial cavity, he found a crumpled-up piece of paper.
More at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/luxury/ming-dynasty-found-note-inside-sculpture/index.html ![]
Mike
Collecting small-size star notes.
Mishawaka, IN
Collecting small-size star notes.
Mishawaka, IN
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Most of the known examples of these notes allegedly were found under a bronze lion in Beijing ca. 1936. I briefly owned one of these notes back in 2008 before giving as a gift to a family member that still owns it. These notes are very large, until recent times when special collector notes were created, these were the largest banknotes ever circulated.
Even back then people hid money.... lol
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
It's the highest denomination. Maybe that's why there was only one.
Collecting small-size star notes.
Mishawaka, IN
Well I was going to post an image of the note I owned, but this flipping new site proeffinghibits it.
SaorAlba:
The icon above the comment field of the little black page with the folded right corner is the insert picture tab. Click that, then where it says Image URL drop the web address of your photo.
Collecting small-size star notes.
Mishawaka, IN
Doesn't work in my browser. This site bites.
Very cool
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SaorAlba I'm using Firefox and got the hang of it. As boimre1972 said, go to the 'dogeared' black page, click on the down arrow and 3 options will appear, Drag & Drop, Browse and Image URL.
This was "Browse", went to My Computer, My Pictures, clicked on the following file.
Used the "Drag & Drop" method by dragging a picture from my computer below.
I used the "Image URL" option and pasted a Photobucket link here.
Quick tip on "text too small", hit the "Ctrl +" to increase text size, Ctrl- to decrease.
Dad 1916-2014
Actual note is about 2x the size of this image: