The love for money isn’t just about value — it’s about the stories it carries. ✨ This unique commemorative coin celebrates 750 years of Amsterdam — a city of courage, freedom, and reinvention. Life is meant to be celebrated. Always.

The Beauty of Money… Sometimes, money is more than a number. More than a means. More than ownership. This commemorative coin — issued in 1975 to celebrate 30 years of freedom — tells a story. A story of trust. Of resilience. Of Queen Juliana and a nation that dared to dream again. 💰 Money isn’t cold or distant. It carries memory, love, hope. Every coin, every note, every digit in your account holds emotion — from someone, somewhere. When you truly see money, you see beauty. Not in what it’s worth, but in what it represents. I guide women to see money differently — not as something to own, but as something that flows with them. With love. With intention. With meaning.

This banknote is more than a relic — it carries deep layers of meaning through its design, context, and imperfections. - Issuance and promise: This is a $100 bill from 1862, issued by the Confederate States of America. In its text it reads: “Six months after the Ratification of a Treaty of Peace … will pay to bearer One Hundred Dollars … with interest at two cents per day.” - No backing, just faith: The Confederacy printed this currency without gold or silver reserves, relying solely on confidence that they could redeem it later — a promise ultimately broken. - Multiple types, subtle variations: Confederate $100 bills from this era are categorized by “types” (T-numbers). For example, T-39 features a “milkmaid and train with straight steam” vignette, while T-40 shows “diffused steam” versions of the locomotive. - Imagery and meaning: On many issues, a milkmaid or female figure stands at one side, symbolizing rural life and domesticity. A locomotive (steam engine) — a strong symbol of industrial ambition, movement, progress. In times of war and reconstruction, the train suggests hope of connection, expansion, change. In some versions (like T-41, for example), the central vignette features enslaved laborers working a cotton field, a stark reminder of the economic foundations and moral fault lines of that society. Allegorical figures or “Columbia”-type women, graceful robes, ornamental flora — all part of the nineteenth-century tradition of blending realism and idealism in banknote design. - - Uniqueness in the hand inscribed number: The handwritten serial number 27591 makes your note singular in a sea of hundreds — no two were exactly alike. - Economy, inflation, decline: During the war, the Confederacy repeatedly printed more notes, leading to rampant inflation and loss of confidence. By war’s end, many Confederate notes were worthless. - Artistry in engraving: Each banknote was engraved with great skill — the tiny details in the border, in the locomotive’s wheels, in the folds of robes, the shading — turning what is nominally currency into miniature art. - Symbolic tension: The note embodies paradox: promise and failure; wealth and worthlessness; ambition and collapse. It is aesthetic and urgent, beautiful and haunted.

While tidying up my boudoir yesterday, pushing summer clothes to the back and pulling winter pieces out of the mothballs 😆 I decided to go through my jewelry and trinkets as well. That’s when I found this family heirloom. A medallion from September 6, 1898, the day Queen Wilhelmina was inaugurated in Amsterdam. To a coincollector, it might be worth only a few coins. But to me… it’s priceless. Because when I hold it, I feel the thread of generations. The time that has slipped away. The dreams that were once lived. The stories quietly carried forward. It’s not about silver or market value. It’s about connection. To those who came before — and those still to come.

This is not just an ordinary note. This is a letter — from the future. A baroque gate on the front calls you closer — not a wall, but an invitation. It whispers: “Step through. Dare to dream it all.” Then — turn it over. The bridge awaits. Strong. Open. Ready. Not demanding — but inviting: “Come. Build me, stone by stone. Cross from who you are to who you can become.” And maybe that’s the magic of it all. It isn’t just money. It’s a mirror. It’s a promise. It’s the bridge to what you will become.