Here are some additional notes from E-Sylum readers this week.
-Editor
Regarding the comments on the coming of polymer banknotes to Canada, Joe Boling writes:
I can assure you that polymer banknotes can be creased and folded - and once a tear starts, it keeps right on going. I have in hand some current Vietnamese polymer notes that are truly tatty - the worst condition polymer pieces I have ever seen - bordering on illegible. Well-circulated polymer can look just as bad as well-circulated paper.
Joe sent the above image of one of his heavily circulated polymer notes. Thanks!
-Editor
Regarding the discussion on Italian coin denominations begun by Bruce Smith and continued by Bob Leonard, Serge Pelletier writes:
L'abbé Migne in his Dictionnaire de numismatique et de sigillograhpie religieuses (Paris, 1852), column 836 states:
"JULES ou PAULES (PAOLI) monnaie d'argent qui se fabrique et a cours à Rome où elle vaux 10 baïoques" (Julis or paoli
silver coin minted in Rome that circulates for 10 baiocchi…)
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
MORE ON CURIOUS CURRENCY BY BOB LEONARD
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n10a06.html)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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