1992-S Olympic Baseball Silver Dollar ProofThe Olympic Games have given rise to hundreds of commemorative coins, including 60 different issues by the U.S. Mint starting in 1983. Most have focused on Olympiads held in the U.S., but two sets of Olympic commemoratives were issued by the mint in 1988 an...

100 Russian Rubles 2015 Crimea & Sevastopol Commemorative BanknoteRussia isn’t the first nation to use its currency for propaganda, but it’s one of the latest. The 2015 100-ruble commemorative note celebrates the 2014 annexation of Crimea and its important port of Sebastopol. It follows closely ...

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500,000 Vietnamese Dong Banknote VNDPolitical turmoil and monetary trouble seem to go hand-in-hand, and Vietnam is no exception. A French colony from the mid-19th century, a rebellion ousted the French and led to an independent, but divided, Vietnam in 1955. The official colonial currency had ...

65th Anniversary 100 Vietnamese Dong Banknote 2016 UncirculatedAfter a long history of conflict and hyperinflation, Vietnam seems to be stabilizing its economy and attracting foreign investment to go along with a booming tourist business. To celebrate this hopeful future, the Vietnamese govern...

In a desperate final attempt to rescue its currency from hyperinflation, in early 2009 the Zimbabwe government revalued its dollar for the fourth time. Known as the “Fourth Dollar,” the new currency represented a one-trillion-to-one devaluation of the “Third Dollar,” which had already been devalued ...

One of several steps toward admitting that hyperinflation had destroyed Zimbabwe’s economy was taken in 2008 when the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe began issuing extra-large denomination banknotes. The 2008 notes were the second in a series of three denominations of the nation’s currency, the midpoint, m...

When too much is not enough A trillion is a number that’s hard to wrap your mind around, even though it’s reported daily in the press when the national debt is mentioned. To give it some context, if you were to spend $10 million every year, it would take 100 years to burn through a trillion of them...