Bizarre Money In The World

1. Money from rock (island of Yap, Kep. Solomon)

On the island of Yap, an island in the Solomon Islands, you will find the "money" the biggest and weirdest in the world: rock rai (a kind of limestone). Money lingkarang shaped with a diameter of 12 feet and weighs 8 tons.

Either history or what causes the belief in this very mensakralkan Yap Island stones, probably the same as modern highly exalt Community Sector golden stone.

Because this type of stone can not be found on the island of Yap, Yap Island people are willing to sacrifice their lives for the adventure seeking this stone.
Did you know? Nominal value of the stone is judged not only by size, but also judged by the sacrifice bring to the island of Yap, including the number of lives lost because of these sacrifices.

2. Silver coins plus bonus holy water (Kepmendagri Palau)
If the paper money of USD is "In God We Trust", the island nation Palau step further. The country in 2007 scored a silver coin with the image of the holy virgin and includes a bonus vial containing a few drops of holy water from a sacred spring in Lourdes France.

3. Modification Money For Coup (Zaire)

When the regime of Joseph Mobutu's coup in 1997 in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the bernamaThe Congo) The new government was too busy to design and print new money in addition to the limited amount of money at that time anyway.

4. Largest denomination (Hungary)

This is the fractional currency until the current record holder. Printed by Hungary in 1946 with a nominal 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengo. Ya! One hundred million trillion Pengo with the exchange rate at that time was only about 20 U.S. cents. See, until the number of zeros was not possible in print.

5. Cash collection voucher (vietnam)

If we ever think that money can buy everything, it is not. Vietnam in 70s Money serves as a collection of pieces of vouchers that can only be used to purchase clothing and equipment.

6. Money penalty of death (American, while still colonized english)

U.S. Dollar has become the most stable currency and is considered a safe haven currency. When viewed from the history, the currency has been widely experienced in fighting counterfeiters. In the early days of British rule, it is easy to make money because many of the printing press money in circulation and mold design is not too complicated as it is now.

7. Money from sheets of wood (Germany)

Once used as emergency money in Germany during the recovery after World War I. Because of the emergency, the money is also of aluminum foil printed, silk fabric, playing cards and even the remnants of war. A collector would willing to pay dearly for this strange uang2, the most expensive is a stone that is printed so the coins at that time.

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