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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

fun with crittery money



Isn't this a nice squirrel? This is a Belarus half-ruble note. (Thanks, WikiCommons. If you want to see the rest of the Belarus notes as well as some spiffy Nepalese ones, go here.)

I wish I knew why the US doesn't want to put any beautiful animals on our hard-earned cash. If I do find out I'll be sure to post that. In the meantime, I was all set to bring you more examples of fine financial animal art, but I got totally hijacked by a photoshop contest on FreakingNews.com in which folded banknotes get merged with critters to make . . . hilarity.

4 comments:

parlance said...

Wnderful! I love the Kazakhstan dog!!!

Anonymous said...

The U.S. is getting more innovative, but dead presidents (and Hamilton and Franklin) are still the basis for its money. Probably too late to change... a shame.

Loren said...

Maybe not currency but how about stamps

WannaSmile said...

I love this:)