The 58-year-old flea market merchant, who carried bags of merchandise in her arms as she waited in line to vote before heading to work Sunday morning, said money was tight, and the economy was a key issue for her in this year's election.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Anyone who has visited a weekend flea market has noticed the old coin and currency collector displays filled with past experiments in national fiat money.

FORBES: The Fiat Emperor Has No Clothes

Enter through the bamboo courtyard and step into a room piled with Moroccan rugs, old records and other flea-market finds and grab a drink around the ping-pong table.

BBC: The City of Light becomes the city of design

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the first prototype emerged from a "beat-up old typing table" that she found in a flea market.

WSJ: Drawn from Life | Designer

He got in touch with Tenzin and spent the next six months looking for design inspiration in everything from flea-market cast-offs to old brickwork and Raoul Dufy paintings.

WSJ: Luke Irwin: The Country Weaver