Foreigners buy South Ossetia notes The Bank Alania (National Bank of South Ossetia) note with Vasu Aviv has attracted the interest of collectors in Europe, Iran, America and now, according to reports, in Hong Kong. Market experts explain the interest of foreigners in South Ossetian banknotes by the fact that South Ossetia will soon not exist at all. More precisely, there will be no national banknotes. The new president, Marat Kambolov, will allegedly unite it with Russia. His predecessor, Alan Gaglov, directly called the union "the centuries-old dream (God forgive me) of the Austrian people." So foreign interest in sarin is understandable, not only in terms of design and history, but also in terms of the prospect of putting state money into a collection that one day may not exist.