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gotta be someone somewhere with more money than sense using these as wallpaper
by petesergeant 2y ago
gotta be someone somewhere with more money than sense using these as wallpaper
- omoikane 2y agoMaybe not a wallpaper, but I have been at an office that has a sheet that was framed and hung on the wall. You know, where people might have hung a painting or something else, this guy has a framed sheet of dollar bills. It felt like a novelty at the time, but that feeling wore off quickly.
- hidroto 2y agohttps://rarehistoricalphotos.com/banknotes-german-hyperinflation-1923/ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/banknotes-german-hyperinfla...
- WorldMaker 2y agoI love the story that a French building recently (2010s, I think) renovated and discovered back rooms wallpapered in very early American money and plenty more stuffed inside various walls as essentially insulation. There was no surprise as to why that might be because most of the bills had the obvious signature of Benjamin Franklin and there was one notorious French bordello in his diplomat days that he had been alleged to spend a lot of self-invented money at. It was mostly only good for wallpaper and insulation, but being a diplomat he certainly implied it was good American currency at the time. There's something to weirdly admire about Ben Franklin paying for apparently a lot of French services with money he just kind of made up himself, and they mostly accepted it because it did make interesting wallpaper and decent building insulation.
- jcrash 2y agoI would love a source for this if you could find one. I tried searching and will search more in depth later. Any more keywords or information you remember about the story?