15 cool facts about money, bills and coins

The site invites you to dive into the world of money - coins of small and large denominations. After all, as you know - no money anywhere!

For a long time the value of the coins was equivalent to the amount of contained metal in them. In this regard, there was a problem - crooks cut small pieces of metal from the edges to make them into new coins. The solution proposed by Isaac Newton, who was a part-time employee of the British Royal Mint. His idea was simple - cut in the edges of coins of small lines, because stёsannye edge which would be immediately noticeable. This part of the coins issued in this way to this day and is known as a herd.



There were not only round coins. In the 18th century was created copper ruble, which had a square shape. Each side it was nearly 20 centimeters. And the weight of the coins was more than one and a half kilograms.

A few centuries ago, in any state primary currency is not equal to 100 coins. The world's first detsimalizatsiyu held Russia - in 1704 the ruble was equated to 100 kopecks.

The most popular bill in the world is a banknote 500 euros. Because of this, last year had to be increased almost 2-fold issue bills of 500 euros.

Banknote 100 000 $ 1934 sample is the largest bank note issued. It is not widely used and has been used for a variety of transactions between banks.

We used that money are just metal and paper. But the money originally had an entirely different form. So in Burma until the 20th century were used as money salt and brick tea, Mexico - bags of cocoa beans. Also, money in different countries were: tobacco, dried fish, grain, rice, corn.

statistics: More than 92% of Russians keep their money in cash at home. On average, every Russian family keeps a 860 US dollars. At the same time 77% of families are worried about the safety of their cash savings, because according to statistics in Russia every 3, 5 minutes going burglary.





Russian Book of Records states that our domestic "hundred-ruble note," which depicts the Grand Theatre, the sexiest denomination in the world!

The leader among the miniature money in Russia is a long time coming out of the treatment poludenga, which corresponded to a quarter of a penny and vesivshaya less than 0, 2 grams.

English footballer Ivor Brodis is still the youngest player-coach in the history of the Premier League. In 1946, when he led the club Carlisle United he was 23 years old. And 3 years later, he sold himself to the club for Sunderland 18 thousand pounds - a very serious at the time's transfer amount.

Only in October 2010, Germany completed the payment of reparations for the First World War imposed on it under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

Most dollar bills running in the US - 1 and $ 20, and in other countries - $ 100.





In 1999, Romania issued a polymer banknote denominations of 2,000 lei, dedicated to the solar eclipse in 1999. On the bill is a map showing the locations of Romania, where the eclipse was 100 percent. At this point of the polymer plastic bank notes put into circulation in Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Samoa, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Thailand.

In 1949 Frank X. McNamara went to dinner with my friends. If it did not have enough cash to pay the bill. This greatly upset Frank, and he vowed that similar to it will not happen again. Due to this occasion, Frank had the idea of ​​creating a universal credit card. So there was a Diners Club.



via factroom.ru

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