Monday 7 May 2007
We visited an interesting museum today, which presented a rather odd combination. The bottom floor was a coin and money museum, devoted to the currency of Uruguay. These little cards were neat - I guess for a few years many businesses around Montevideo printed their own cash, little coupons good only for their own services. This was quickly declared illegal.
The best coin there, however, was a little gold one called a "gaucho," because it had a gaucho, or cowboy, head on it. There was also a half gaucho, and a quarter gaucho, whose names made me giggle a little.
Upstairs was the gaucho museum, full of whips and knives and swords and mates and livery and other gaucho things.
We visited an interesting museum today, which presented a rather odd combination. The bottom floor was a coin and money museum, devoted to the currency of Uruguay. These little cards were neat - I guess for a few years many businesses around Montevideo printed their own cash, little coupons good only for their own services. This was quickly declared illegal.
The best coin there, however, was a little gold one called a "gaucho," because it had a gaucho, or cowboy, head on it. There was also a half gaucho, and a quarter gaucho, whose names made me giggle a little.
Upstairs was the gaucho museum, full of whips and knives and swords and mates and livery and other gaucho things.
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