İmece Harvest

Village hands pooled for harvests, winter stores and building.

Back of İmece Harvest: the İmece (collective village labour, Anatolia) tradition, how a note would work, and the traits of Noun #79 — Back · the tradition

Security Edition v2

The same note set like a banknote: full engraved portrait of Noun #79, guilloche, watermark, thread, foil stripe and microtext, all printed art. What's on it

Security Edition front of İmece Harvest: a line-engraved portrait of the full actual Noun #79 in a guilloche oval beside a watermark window, thread and holographic-look stripe — Security Edition · front

Security Edition back of İmece Harvest: a color medallion of Noun #79 in a guilloche rosette, with the note's story — Security Edition · back

v2 front SVG ↓ v2 back SVG ↓

The tradition · customary for centuries

İmece (collective village labour, Anatolia)

İmece is a long-standing Anatolian village custom: neighbours pool unpaid labour for a household's harvest, winter food or building, the help is returned, and the host feeds the crew.

Source: A Perspective on 'Imece' and 'Cooperative' Culture in Turks (FAO AGRIS record, Sinop University study) ↗

How a note would work

Neighbours earn Hands by joining a harvest, a winter-food day or a building job, and spend them to call a crew to their own task. Hands are never bought or cashed out, and the host still feeds the crew.

Design concept inspired by this tradition, not issued by or for the people who keep it. Not legal tender, not for sale, no cash value, no redemption and no investment rights.

Front SVG ↓ Back SVG ↓ Machine edition

PlaceAnatolian villages, Turkey
Eracustomary for centuries
RegionAfrica & the Middle East
UnitHand · Hands
Face value10 Hands
SerialGB-G017-N0079
NounActual Noun #79 ↗
Why this NounA scorpion's eight legs carry one body in step, like an imece crew moving across one household's field.
Headscorpion
Glassessquare blue
Bodygrayscale 9
Accessorybling rings
Seedbg 1 · body 13 · acc 13 · head 186 · glasses 5