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Mobiyuz — Californian Currency, Series 2019
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Published: 2018-10-03 08:14:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 3582; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 16
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So as 2019 approaches, the Federal Bank of California does what it's done every 3 years or so: rolled out a new series of Californian currency. Notable in this set is the first time since the Series 1950 currency to not feature the Golden Gate Bridge on the 1 Dollar bill. Also notable is the fact that there's a 1 Dollar bill at all; the plan for the 2019 series was to discontinue the 2019 bill in favor of the 1 dollar coin, but weirdly enough a public campaign eventually convinced the government to reconsider and maintain a 1 dollar bill in the currency series. Now, all of the currency features natural features of California, and no artificial structures whatsoever.---
I was concerned that the series I'd made way back at the start of all of this was lightning in a bottle, that I wasn't going to be able to make another set. I think I did well enough.
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Plastic polymer banknotes like the Malaysian, Brunei and Australian banknotes I've got?, v. modern looking, only one problem...if they end up in the wash with the laundry by accident the polymer banknotes shrivel up and wrinkle like little old men .
They're harder to forge and harder wearing
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Yep. Also cheaper to print. They'd probably look better if I knew how to include the little holographic emblem things.
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That would be a bugger of a problem to replicate, thinking of running up a few sketches for currency used in my alt-timeline story The Red Post Box, still writing it all out longhand. I collect old banknotes and coins as a hobby so I have an idea of what style I'll use.
Germany - Reformed Weimar republic, dodged Nazidom, survived a successful military Putsch and short lived dictatorship. Had to deal with anti-democracy groups like Organisation Consul and the Viking League made up out of ex-Freikorp and right wing nutters. These organisations are this timelines equivalent of the I.R.A. and other terrorist groups assassinating politicians and letting off bombs over the last 30/40 years.
German Republican symbol - The Linden Tree & Einheit, Freiheit und Recht(unity, freedom and justice) the Linden tree was often used as a site for German tribal council meetings and open air law courts. In medieval Germany judgements in these courts were often described as being "under the Linden" to show they were legitimate judgements/decisions of the community.
The German Eagle has been junked because of it's association with the old monarchist Empire, the Hohenzollerns have been stripped of their German citizenship and banned eternally from German territory.
Landesknecht by Durer on the 5 Republikmarks note, Immanuel Kant on the 20, Goethe on the 50 and President Ebert on the 100*, ornate Art Deco style depiction of the Linden tree on the silver Republikmark coin(imagine it same size as the old silver dollar).
Die Donaubund (The Danube Federation) republican confederacy linking the Austrian, Czecho-Slovak, Magyar and Yugoslav* Free States - the post Great War Aster Revolution( Őszirózsás forradalom) in Hungary spread across the former Empire along with a lot of pissed off ex-soldiers who felt truly screwed over by the powers that be. Admiral Horthy and a number of reactionaries ended up hanging by their heels from lampposts outside the Royal Palace in Budapest.
Uses the Sunflower as the common symbol on it's banknotes along with the motto "Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas"(cupidity can mean a strong lust or desire for example arbitrary or tyrannical rule). Major city of the Bund is "Red Vienna"...when anarchists and socialists are politely invited to gtfo of quiet Switzerland they often end up here.
The Socialists have their own favourite Kaffeehaus in the Ringsstrasse, the regular Anarchists have their own favourite Kaffeehausen near Kärntner Straße and the Cafe Central in Herrengasse(Trotsky liked the pastries there), as for the right wing nutters they've got their favourite bars....do not go into That part of Vienna especially on Friday nights unless you want the shit kicked out of you by thugs afloat to the tonsils on schnapps and cheap beer.
*not "our" yugoslavia - the Slovenians and their neighbours Croatia and Bosnia formed a small confederate republic knowing that their small states would too easily be devoured by the stroppy buggers in Serbia-Montenegro.
The Commonwealth a.k.a. Rzeczpospolita - Symbol two warriors ~ a winged Hussar and a Knight facing east & west representing Lithuania and Belarus Free States with the Polish white eagle overhead. Common design found on all banknotes is the Hussar depicted thru various time periods e.g. the armoured Winged Hussar of the Siege of Vienna and the Polish Hussars of the Napoleonic Grand Duchy of Warsaw ~ the 100 Zloty banknote depicts Aleksander Orłowski's "Husaria's Attack" painting.
The Commonwealth isn't a recreated Polish Commonwealth but a confederacy of Poland, Lithuania and the western regions of old Belarussia. Each component retains it's own national parliament for internal decisions, a common currency the Zloty, a common military command and a Presidential Tribunal i.e. a three man presidency, one elected representative from the constituent nations.
It's less a single united nation, more like an alliance founded on the idea "for shit's sake if we don't team up the damn Germans or the Soviets will eat us alive!". All three members had been divided between the German, Austrian and Russian Empires & gained independence lumbered with 3 different currencies, legal systems and military arsenals to complicate their national resurrection. With Russia undergoing bloody revolution, Germany in chaos and the Austro-Hungarians foaming at the mouth, the three future members decided with encouragement from Pilsudski to form an alliance to mitigate the strain inflicted on their countries.
Otto Dix now a Konigsberg resident famous for his experimental paintings depicting Immanuel Kant, Hindenberg and his large portrait series of maimed German Great War veterans he's named "The Mirror Held Up To Germany".
United States of America - still working one it, whew nelly! it's going to be a bumpy ride, The Bonus Army, a blockhead President and a second Blair Mountain Insurrection....and what amounts to a corporate coup in the Coal-land states**. Check up about the Coal and Iron Police or the book "Black Fury" by Judge Michael Musmanno.
**not the first time there's been an illegal overthrow of elected govt. in America check out the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 or the 1874 Election Riot in Alabama where an organised mob killed 70 and basically declared the Democrats the winners of the election
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I have sort've noticed that the old anarchists and socialists seemed to have hung around the old Cafes drinking endless cups of vicious central European coffee you could tar roofs with. And of course the air would fill with high flown philosophical Bullshite and ideological hairsplitting.
Meanwhile some of the more right wing buggers would be haunting a Bierkeller somewhere slowly getting afloat to the tonsils on beer and schnapps and settling for punching the daylights out of someone. One exception would be that Bar in London where Joseph Stalin did his serious boozing while visiting England with Lenin.
The American part is definitely nasty, but I didn't have to invent much for that just research some of the nastier situations that actually happened, no wonder they had a mania about anarchists and socialists
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What clean, beautiful, modern designs on the banknotes here!
Well done
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They're printed with a plastic polymer material, as well. I can't figure out how to include holographic designs, though, so there's that.
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