Numismatic definitions
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Stamp Money
Both postage and revenue (fiscal) stamps have circulated as money during shortages of coins from the American Civil War onwards. Encased postage stamps were used in the USA, 1861-62, before they were superseded by Postage Currency notes but the same expedient was adopted by many countries during and immediately after the First World War. Stamps affixed to special cards have circulated as money in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1900 the French colonies and Turkey during the First World War in Spain during the Civil War (1936-39) and the Philippines during the Japanese occupation (1942-45). Stamps printed on thick card with an inscription on the reverse signifying their parity with silver coins were issued in Russia (1917-18) and also in Armenia the Crimea and the Ukraine (1918-20). During the Second World War Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and several Indian states issued small money cards with contemporary stamps printed on them.
