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ERSKINE CALDWELLThe author pens his signature on this Russian one ruble note Currency Signed: "E. Caldwell", 4x2. Russian one ruble note. In 1941, Caldwell traveled to Russia through China with his then-wife, photographer Margaret Bourke-White, and the couple was present on July 22, 1941, when the first German bombs exploded over Moscow.

PAUL ANTHONY SAMUELSON 1936 Chinese five-yuan note signed by the 1970 Nobel Prize laureate for economics Chinese five-yuan note signed: "Paul A Samuelson/MIT, 1977", 6x3. Central Bank of China Note, 1936.