ReQuest2021 Online Advent Calendar – Day 13

ANTARCTICA Dream-Dollars Thirteen Dollar Notes

A little touch of fantasy art and quirky fake Antarctic inspired mythology today…

The Thirteen Dollar note is the center of the Dream-Dollar System, which is why it is a vertical note, rather than the normal horizontal design. This note is about the forces and power of Change. The number thirteen is an irrational number, and has always been associated with bad luck and jinxes. There are thirteen lunar cycles in a year, so this number is closely associated with the moon, which represents intuition, emotion, and dreams. But the moon has a dark side, so it also means lunacy, madness and curses, as with werewolves.

Dream Dollars: The Currency of a Lost Antarctic Civilization. In the mid 19th century, Samuel Brundt — inspired by a delirious vision — led an expedition to establish a utopian colony called Nadira in Antarctica. The colony thrives for many years, thanks to a chemical compound called Heaven’s Fire, and even discovered the remains of an ancient Antarctic civilization, long frozen beneath the ice. Eventually, however, under mysterious circumstances, the colony of Nadira disappeared.

Or, at least, that’s the mythology driving Dream Dollars, a web site selling some truly eclectic fake money from the lost colony of Nambira.

(Source: https://artcana.blog/2019/05/25/antarctica-dream-dollars-thirteen-dollar-notes/)