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Money Under Pressure: 7-Piece Historic Money Coin Collection
Description
Five turning points. Seven genuine pieces of historic money. One story about what happens when politics, war, and inflation put a currency under pressure.
This SalarsNet-curated collection brings together five Educational Coin Company displays that make economic history tangible. It contains six circulated coins and one 1938 Spanish cardboard emergency-currency piece, each presented with educational packaging.
What is included
Red Dawn: The Russian Revolution — one Soviet-era coin in a clear-box educational display. The enclosed supplier attribution accompanies the piece.
Occupation: World War II Belgium — one circulated Belgian 5 centimes trade-zinc coin from the 1941–1943 occupation period in a mini album.
Spanish Civil War: Fall of Barcelona — one 1938 Barcelona cardboard emergency-currency piece with affixed stamp, presented in a mini album. ECC describes the supplied grade as VF.
Turkey Inflation — three Turkish inflation-era coins issued in 2002, housed in an 11-inch educational portfolio album.
Turkey 1,000,000 Lira — one 2002 one-million-lira coin in a focused mini album.
Why this collection is different
Rather than grouping coins only by country or denomination, this collection follows a single question across the twentieth century: how does money change when governments and societies face revolution, occupation, civil war, and inflation? It is designed for collectors, history learners, teachers, and thoughtful gift-givers who want artifacts with a coherent story.
Condition and authenticity
These are genuine circulated, ungraded pieces assembled by Educational Coin Company. Wear, color, toning, exact date or mint details, and packaging appearance can vary. Supplier images are representative unless a component explicitly states otherwise. No numeric grade or investment return is promised. The Spanish piece carries ECC’s supplier-described VF attribution; it is not independently third-party graded by SalarsNet.
Fulfillment
This physical collection ships from Educational Coin Company in Highland, New York. Standard contiguous-U.S. shipping is included in the SalarsNet price. Availability of every component is checked before fulfillment; if any component cannot be supplied, the order will not be silently substituted.
Read the companion story
Go deeper with Money Under Pressure: How Crises Reshape Currency, a detailed history of how revolution, occupation, civil war, and inflation changed everyday money. A printed QR story card is included with the physical collection.