Banknotes and coins with chess theme

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[27.07.2017 00:00:00] - The collection of banknotes and coins with chess theme, which is being built by Brno based businessman and chess patron, Vlastimil Chládek, and which will be exhibited for the first time in the Czech National Bank during the course of the Chess Bank Festival, so far consists of one banknote and several tens of coins. If you are aware of a coin or a note, which is not listed below, please let us know by email (prazska.sachova@gmail.com) and you will receive a reward. We are interested only in actual money, not in memorial medals or other souvenirs.

The collector is still looking for three Cuban coins from 1988. The first is 5 peso coin, the other 20 peso coin, both of them are silver and they are depicting Cuban world champion José Raul Capablanca. The third is 1 peso coin from 1988 with chess pieces. Would you be able to get hold of them?
However, it is possible that other chess theme coins, which have not been found by Vlastimil Chládek, are not in the collection. Considering that there is not a catalog of chess coins (unlike for example catalogs of chess theme post stamps, which exist), it is not easy to put together a list of such coins. For the exhibition, which you can visit from 28 till 30 November 2017 in Prague in Czech National Bank´s main building, a catalog will be published and you can help to make it complete.

List of chess themes banknotes and coins Banknotes
Estonia – 5 krooni – Paul Keres 1994

Coins
Andorra - 1 diner – set of 32 coins with chess pieces - 2006
Armenia - 100 dram – 32nd Olympic Games in Yerevan - 1996
Armenia - 5.000 dram - Tigran Petrosian - 1999
Armenia - 10.000 dram – 37th Olympic Games in Torino - 2006
Belaru - 20 rubles – Alice Through the Looking-Glass - 2007
Estonia - 2 euro - Paul Keres - 2016
Philippines - 5 piso – 30th Olympic Games in Manila - 1992
Yugoslavia - 5, 100, 150 and 1,000 dinars – 29th Olympic Games in Novi Sad - 1990
Cuba - 1, 5 and 20 peso - José Raul Capablanca - 1988
Hungary - 500 forints – Kempelen Chess Automaton - 2002
Moldavia - 10 lei - European Women's Chess Championship - 2005
Austria - 20 euro - Stefan Zweig´s chess novel - 2013
Russia - 2 rubles - Mikhail Chigorin - 2000
Russia - 3 rubles – 39th Olympic games in Khanty Mansiysk - 2010
Russia - 2 rubles - Mikhail Botvinnik - 2011
Greece - 20 lepta - horse's head - 1978
Greece - 100 and 500 drachma – 28th Olympic games in Thessaloniki - 1988
Slovakia - 200 crowns - Kempelen Chess Automaton - 2004
Slovenia – 2,500 a 20,000 tolars – 35th Olympic Games in Bled - 2002
Turkey – 7,500,000 liras – 34th Olympic Games in Istanbul - 2000
United Arab Emirates - 1 dirham – 27th Olympic Games in Dubai - 1986

Note:
It is questionable, whether Greek coin from 1978 and Andora coins from 2006 should be part of the list. There are arguments for and against.

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