Scrooge McDuck's Currency Market View series: ZAR

Don Rosa kindly made this convention drawing in Baltimore Comic Con (10/2022). My idea for this Scrooge's "Currency Market View" series was a common, real-life market view for our (a bit unreal) fiat currencies: EUR, GBP, JPN, USD, and so on. And also physical gold.
At first I was thinking "holy triptych" from USD, EUR & JPY, but then extended it a bit idea when visited again in BCCs.

So, Scrooge's emotions are in line with market expectations: South African markets is a bit far away from the Duckburg to follow and the rand has sunk quite a lot (vs USD) in the past decades. The hat Uncle Scrooge is having in the artwork is from Don Rosa's LoS story "The Terror of the Transvaal, when poor Scrooge took quite a lot hits there in South Africa.

This drawing is done on A3 size paper (30 x 42 cm, 11.7 x 16.5 inches), so it is about twice the size what normal convention sketches are done (typically in a comic book backboards). Gold marker pen is for sure the best one for this kind of artworks (about monetary views), when not using white paper.

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