POP QUIZ #3. 3. On what countries bank notes will you find a polar bear?

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1 POP QUIZ #3 1. On what countries notes can tigers be found? a. Italian Somaliland e. Ethiopia b. Nepal f. Straits Settlements c. India g. Portuguese India d. Indonesia h. SouthVietnam 2. Iran, Thailand, Ethiopia and Myanmar have all undergone name changes during the 20 th Century. Which country was formerly known as Abyssinia? 3. On what countries bank notes will you find a polar bear? a. Spitzbergen b. Greenland c. Faero Islands d. Canada 4. In 1917 Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaidjan declared their independence from Russia. They then formed the federation known as the? a. The Autonomous Republic of South Russia b. Socialist Republic of Transcaucasia c. The Crimean Provisional Government d. The Transcaucasian Commissariat 5. In Great Britain, four silver coins 1, 2, 3 and 4 penny pieces are given each year by the monarch to the poor in a special ceremony. These coins are known as: a. Estucheon coins b. Sovereign pieces c. Maundy coins d. Regal alms

2 6. All coins are not round. The 50 new pence of Great Britain, struck commencing 1969, had how many sides? a. seven b. ten c. five d. six 7. The country of Transnistria, which lacks international recognition, was most recently part of what nation? a. Romania b. The Ukraine c. USSR d. Moldavia 8. Before being overthrown and driven into exile, who was president of the former British African Protectorate of Uganda? a. Moise Tshombe b. Idi Amin c. Patrice Lumumba d. J. Nyerere 9. The Bank of England building in London is known as? a. Money Lenders Hall b. The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street c. The Goldsmith's Seat d. Blackwell's Fancy 10. Hungarian 100 forint notes of feature on their reverse a painting of two peasants in a cart fleeing an oncoming storm. This famous painter is? a. Karoly Lotz b. Georgi Dmitrov c. Friedrick Schiller d. Sandor Petőfi 11. True-False: Canada's 25 dollar note of 1935 commemorating King George and Queen Mary, was printed in both English and French versions?

3 12. Which countries notes were withdrawn in 1985 due to the incompleteness of a map depicting its outline as shown on the1000 franc note? a. Equatorial Africa b. Chad c. Central African Republic d. Mali 13. True or False: The kwacha is the official currency of Zambia. 14. The London Equitable Labor Exchange operated from The Exchange was based upon the idea of cooperative labor and a system of finance based upon labor hours worked. Commodities were bought and sold on this principal using bank notes denominated in labor hours. Who was the developer and promoter of this concept? a. George Cruikshank b. Benjamin Disraeli c. Oliver Twist d. Robert Owen 15. The United Arab Republic was founded in 1958 after the unification of what two former countries? a. Egypt and Lebanon b. Omar and Yemen c. Egypt and Syria d. Lebanon and Syria 16. The holey dollar of New South Wales was originally a Spanish silver dollar. The center plug, when punched out, circulated as one shilling and three pence. How much was the remaining outer rim worth in circulation? a. 6 shillings b. 5 shillings c. 2 shillings d. 4 shillings and twopence

4 17. The abbreviation m/c found in paper money catalogs means what? a. Multiple cancellations b. Manufacturer's cachet c. Multi-colored d. Modest circulation 18. Scotland's Clydesdale Bank Limited produced a 5 pound note in depicting the mouse and rose on its reverse. Who was the poet who wrote this story? a. Percy Shelly b. William Yeats c. Robert Burns d. John Keats 19. The monetary denomination used in Turkmenistan is the? a. tenge b. dinar c. som d. manat 20. The Mexican independence movement is of interest to collectors because of the warfare induced activity of local and state authorities who issued paper money and coins of their own. From 1810 to 1917 Mexico had enough emperors, dictators and presidents to change government on the average of every nine months! Who had the longest tenure as Mexico's dictator during this period? a. Porfirio Diaz b. Jose Iturbide c. Francisco Villa d. Venustiano Carranza

5 POP QUIZ # 3 ANSWERS 1. All except Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia, which have leopards and lions. Straits Settlements, P-18 Portuguese India, P-32 South Vietnam P -33 Indonesia, P-52 Italian Somaliland P-11 Ethiopia P-9 2. Ethiopia

6 3. b. Greenland 4. d. The Transcaucasian Commissariat 5. c. Maundy coins 6. a. seven 7. d. Moldavia 8. b. Idi Amin 9. b. The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street

7 10. a. Karoly Lotz 11. True. The French version is by far the scarcest. 12. b. Chad The corrected map version. 13. True

8 14. d. Robert Owen Owen's handwritten signature appears on the first line as Governor. 15. c. Egypt and Syria 16. b. 5 shillings 17. c. multi-colored

9 18. c. Robert Burns 19. d. manat 20. a. Porfirio Diaz

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