Re:The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money
by quesera on Sunday September 11, 2016 @02:33AM
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> engravers are the next to be flown in and put to work.
To elaborate on your point -- stabilizing the currency is pretty much job #2, and one that is worked on in parallel with job #1, by different groups of people. The bills are often printed back home in the occupying country, and the occupiers often have time to prepare.
We see businesses start up, shutdown, or get acquired all the time, the processes are familiar. Countries going through similar cycles are fascinating because we don't really know the playbook. But it exists. :)
One thing that's always been interesting to me with the new bills is how quickly new governments (invaders or usurpers) put in place new, high quality, currency. It's almost like, along with the artillery and occupation force, engravers are the next to be flown in and put to work.
> "The issue for us is it needs to be a security document . . . [but] it’s also a cultural document,"
I find the cultural document the most fascinating thing about collecting money. Governments tend to put on bills the most important propaganda they can think of. Important buildings, people, public works projects, cultural activities and myths. I don't care much about the monetary value of what I collect, but the place in history that money represents.
This new currency is definitely going to be cool to add to the collection.