What are the banknotes from?
What are the banknotes from?
Banknotes, or paper money, went in and firmlyentrenched in the economic life of mankind. It is difficult to imagine the everyday turnover of money without these colorful pieces of different denominations, which, meanwhile, have such a tremendous impact at times on the life of entire countries and continents.
History of paper - the history of money
The homeland of paper money is East. And this is not accidental, because it was in the East - ancient China - that they invented a paper on which they drew the denomination of a monetary note, or rather, a loan commitment. Only towards the end of the 17th century the paper boom for money reached the borders of the Western countries and became a direct manifestation of capitalist society.Europe, Ekaterininskaya Russia, the whole world - this is the way of following paper banknotes.Fashionable and necessary for that time papermoney made from wood quickly moved and just as quickly went out of turnover, having a maximum lifespan of not more than two years, that's why special developments designed to strengthen the strength of banknotes have become the most urgent topic of improving banknotes.
Monetary material
Today, the material on which papermoney, has the following composition: 75 percent of cotton, 25 percent of flax, plus synthetic fibers to enhance physical properties. Interestingly, banknotes of individual countries, such as China, Romania or Australia are made of the finest plastic, which gives the bills a special strength. The discoverers of this method were Haiti and Costa Rica, who in 1983 issued the first banknotes of this polymer material. Particularly distinguished Germany, which offered its residents in the early 20s money printed on nothing else, like silk, managed to make money under the symbolic name "notgeld" using wooden plates and using porcelain and metal foil. France of the 19th century was remembered by coin-lovers with playing cards used as banknotes as cash.The inhabitants of Alaska preferred sealskin as a solid and durable basis for printed money.Modern paper money is endowed with severaldegrees of protection, which every day becomes more complex and unattainable for scammers. Drawings, metal tapes, special holograms, watermarks, specially selected inscriptions and fonts-all this makes banknotes reliable and safe for means of circulation and calculation.
