Unusual Stamp Currencies

Travancore: Southern State of India Kerala
Currency: Cash and Chuckrams

What, no "Cash and Curry"

I know, puns are horrible. Sorry about that

KirkS

Ho Ho, what a great mood we are all in.
So let's keep it going.
After the Curry lets have a bit of Fish...to go with the potatoes shown earlier !



A nice Dab !
But what has that got to do with stamps?
Well a lot actually.
In 1973, the Cistercian Monks on Caldey Island off the Coast of South Wales [UK], issue 4 stamps, initially for use on Postcards to carry them to the mainland [Tenby Post Office] later as Tourist Souvenirs.
Nice designs of Churches and the Monastery on the Island and Printed by Bradbury Wilkinson.
The Currency.....Dabs !
Dabs were in plentiful supply in the waters surrounding the Island but they are also [supposedly] a symbol of Christianity !

I wonder if the tourists could pay for the Stamps in Dabs instead of the 5p charge ?????

You can read more about Caldey Island here;

http://www.caldey-island.co.uk/


and the Monks;

http://www.caldey-island.co.uk/monks.htm

The dabs you have seen....here are the stamps;






Londonbus1....smelling of fish !

A Little Dab will Do Ya!

Well if we are sitting down to fish and chips,
please set a plaice for me.

This fish is called Kevin
This phantasy from Sweden is 30, but 30 what?

Ah Ha !
The 30 ore Baltic Rudd !

Very tasty.

Londonbus1....The fish not the stamp.

You've tasted the Baltic Rudd!
I am in exalted company,
Fish and Chips here mainly are Snapper, Barramundi (yum)
or Shark
So the currency was/is Ore (Orah?)
Thanks.

Tierra del Fuego. Currency Gold dust.
A Romanian Julio Popper organised these and the 10c represented 10 centigrams of gold dust, being the commonest currency at the time
at that place.
Popper's Stamp, 1891, was designed by
the Austrian lithographer Rodolfo Soucup,
and printed in Buenos Aires by Casa Juan Kidd y Cía.
Stamp image source is unknown.

Thanks Marty.
I was fairly sure that this Colon had nothing to do with backsides, but I didn't know it meant Colombus.

Apparently this was locked by mistake, sorry for the inconvenience.

Fish and chips aaaargghhhh ! Make mine new Herring and smoked eels !

Herring and Eel Sir?
enjoy your meal.
...and what wine would Sir prefer?

I didn't know we got a choice of whines. I thought it was the house whine.

Stop whining !

Need any cheese with that whine!