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title: Propaganda banknotes and coins
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/medium/banknote-coin/
description: Browse all 28 items from propaganda banknotes and coins in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
section: Collection
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# Propaganda banknotes and coins

28 objects, listed by date.

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3. Medium: banknotes and coins

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- [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer)
- [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.
- [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities)
- [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (Kushan Empire · 0130 · Transfer)
- [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (Roman Empire · 0313 · Glittering generalities)
- [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial)
- [Silver testoon of Henry VIII, third coinage: crowned bust and HENRIC VIII, reverse crowned Tudor rose and POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/testoon-henry-viii-third-coinage-1544/) (England · 1544 · Transfer)
- [Mughal gold coin of Jahangir, dated 1028 AH, with a bull inside a ring of sun rays](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jahangir-gold-zodiac-coin-sun-rays-1619/) (Mughal Empire · 1619 · Transfer)
- [Assignat of fifteen sols, law of 4 January 1792](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/assignat-quinze-sols-1792/) (France · Jan 4, 1792 · Glittering generalities)
- [Assignat of fifty sols, law of 23 May 1793 (British Museum)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/assignat-cinquante-sols-1793/) (French First Republic · May 23, 1793 · Glittering generalities)
- [Ejército Constitucionalista de México: billete de cinco pesos (Constitutionalist Army of Mexico: Five-Peso Note)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/constitucionalista-cinco-pesos-1914/) (Mexico · Mar 30, 1914 · Transfer)
- [Державний кредитовий білет, 100 гривень (State Credit Note, 100 Hryven; legend 'Ukrainian People's Republic', 1918)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unr-100-hryven-note-1918/) (Ukrainian State · 1918 · Transfer)
- [РСФСР расчётный знак, 500 рублей, reverse with the multilingual slogan (Soviet Russia, 1919)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rsfsr-500-rubles-reverse-slogan-1919/) (Soviet Russia · 1919 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Republic of Korea, Certificate of Indebtedness ($10 bond, no. 462), signed by Syngman Rhee](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/republic-of-korea-indebtedness-certificate-1919/) (Provisional Government of Korea · Sep 1, 1919 · Transfer)
- [Bielschowitz 1-Mark plebiscite note: "Mörderbuben und Banditen" (Upper Silesia, 1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bielschowitz-plebiscite-notgeld-1921/) (Weimar Germany · 1921 · Name-calling, Fear appeal)
- [Salzburg 20-Kronen "Anschluss" voucher (1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/salzburg-anschluss-voucher-20-kronen-1921/) (Austria · 1921 · Identity fusion)
- [Kreuzburg O.S. 25-pfennig note: "97% für Deutschland!" (Upper Silesia, 1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kreuzburg-97-percent-notgeld-1921/) (Weimar Germany · Oct 18, 1921 · Bandwagon)
- [Kingdom of Italy 5 lire coin, 1927: eagle on the fasces (Romagnoli design)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/italy-5-lire-aquilotto-coin-1927/) (Fascist Italy · 1927 · Transfer)
- [閩浙贛省蘇維埃銀行壹圓 (Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Soviet Bank, one-yuan note, 1933)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/min-zhe-gan-soviet-bank-one-yuan-1933/) (Chinese Soviet Republic · 1933 · Transfer)
- [Bank Melli Iran 500 rials (five Pahlavi) note with Reza Shah, 1317 (1938)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bank-melli-500-rials-reza-shah-1938/) (Iran · Mar 1938 · Transfer)
- [Antonescu medal, 'Mareșal al României și Conducătorul Statului' (G. Stănescu, 1941)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/antonescu-conducatorul-statului-medal-1941/) (Romania · 1941 · Glittering generalities)
- [滿洲中央銀行百圓 (Central Bank of Manchukuo, 100 yuan note, 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manchukuo-central-bank-100-yuan-confucius-1944/) (Manchukuo · 1944 · Transfer)
- [Invest a "Truth Dollar" in Radio Free Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/truth-dollar-1954/) (United States · 1954 · Narrative laundering, Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [Central Bank of Iran 100 rials note, 50th anniversary of the Pahlavi monarchy, 1355 (1976)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/central-bank-iran-100-rials-fifty-years-pahlavi-1976/) (Iran · 1976 · Transfer)
- [Reserve Bank of Rhodesia ten-dollar note, reverse with Great Zimbabwe (1979)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rhodesia-10-dollar-great-zimbabwe-1979/) (Rhodesia · 1979 · Transfer)
- [Central Bank of Turkmenistan 10000 manat note with a portrait of President Niyazov, 1996](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/turkmenistan-10000-manat-note-niyazov-1996/) (Turkmenistan · 1996 · Transfer, Cult of personality)
- [Islamic State gold dinar, reverse with wheat ears and the year 1437 AH (Islamic State, 2015)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/islamic-state-gold-dinar-reverse-2015/) (Iraq · 2015 · Transfer)
