Currency
I got a soft spot for collecting hyperinflated currencies governed by supreme dictators, autocratic leaders, mass murderers, despots and tyrants. Best when they have their faces on it. Most of them are republics. This collection took me quite awhile as the currencies had been out of print, new currencies printed where the monsters had been replaced, displaced, left somewhere or best - assassinated. Vladimir Lenin - Soviet Union. The murders carried out during and immediately after the Bolshevik Revolution number in the hundreds of thousands. The overall death toll of Marxist-Leninist ideologies in the Soviet Union and the neighboring states easily exceeds ten million, much of it credited to Lenin's protege, Joseph Stalin. Saddam Hussein - Iraq the absolute ruler of Iraq up until his capture and eventual execution by US forces aligned with the United States of America. Saddam espoused a blend of nationalism and secular socialism. It is estimated that at leas...
