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The E-Sylum: Volume 11, Number 18, May 4, 2008, Article 29 FEATURED WEB PAGE: HISTORY OF CHATHAM ISLANDS NUMISMATICS This week's featured web page is a Wikipedia page on the History of Chatham Islands numismatics: "The history of Chatham Islands numismatics begins in 1999, when the Reserve Bank of New Zealand authorized a private organization, the Chatham Islands Note Corporation, to issue banknotes to celebrate that the Chatham Islands would have been the first land to enter the third millennium of the common era (although this is not actually true - this honour belongs to Antarctica. The first island to enter the third millennium would be Millennium Island). The Reserve Bank of New Zealand gave this authorization under the condition that such notes cannot be declared legal tender. In other words, these notes were to be used for payment, but only if the seller accepted them: there was no obligation for anyone to accept the notes issued by the Chatham Islands, contrarily to the notes issued by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. These Chatham Islands notes were generally accepted by merchants on the Chatham Islands." wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chatham_Islands_numismatics See also: polymernotes.org/resources/chatham.htm Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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