This 1000 won banknote, P-8, was issued by the Republic of Korea in 1950, the year the war began. It features a portrait of Syngman Rhee, the Korean nationalist who was the president of South Korea from 1948-1960.
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilization, Ancient Egypt saw some of the...