i picked up a small wad of dinars at the bazaar today.



why? to give them away, of course!
if you want one, go here:
http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=14485

My latest purchase:
Thailand

Thailand 20 Baht 2002 UNC Front Design: H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Back Design: H.M. King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII)




Vietnam

Vietnam 10000 Dong 2006 UNC Polymer Front Design: Ho Chi Minh


Vietnam 10000 Dong 2006 UNC Polymer Back Design: Offshore Platform


Vietnam 10000 Dong 2006 UNC Polymer Front Design: Ho Chi Minh


Vietnam 10000 Dong 2006 UNC Polymer Back Design: Offshore Platform

Good looking notes. I have a few polymer notes. Don't like the feel of them.

Like those Thai notes, I endeavour to collect a few of the recent commems myself.

Dear naidu54@hotmail.com,
ti is supposed to be Ho Chi Minh, not Hi Chi Minh
"Vietnam 10000 Dong 2006 UNC Polymer Front Design: Hi Chi Minh"

Before joining this forum I had only a small interest in notes. After hanging out here a bit & seeing all the cool foreign currency I had to get some.

I'm starting a German Notgeld collection & bought a few lots on ebay. I've got 132 different notgeld's coming.

One of the dealers also had some regular currency so I picked up these to start with (these are ebay pics)...
















...not much, but it's a start (I have some Iraqi 5 Dinar notes already).

I got these today from Blackhawk:

Ooh.. crispy. What dates?

The first 5 Guilden from Suriname you have there did very well in our Popular Banknote Idol a few months ago... ie its a well-loved note around here.

Those are series 1935 D silver certs.

Huge update!

After not being able to collect anything for over a year, I guess I went a little nuts.
I'm not anywhere near being finished as far as scanning goes, so I'll just post updates during my scanning breaks. lol...this is taking a lot longer than I thought!

Gold Certificates
1928 $10, $20, $50

FRBN's (National Currency)
1929 $5, $10, $20

WWII Hawaii
1935A $1, 1934 $5, 1934A $10

WWII North Africa
1935A $1, 1934A $5 & $10

Experimental Notes
1935A $1 R & S, 1988A $1 B-L Web Press

Errors
1974 Inverted 3rd Print $1, $5, $10

Military Payment Certificates
Series 681 $0.05, $0.10, $0.25, $0.50, $1.00, $5.00, $10.00, $20.00 (all serials end in -13)

Norway
1995 50 Kroner (overprinted serials), 1987 100 Kroner, 1991 500 Kroner
2003 200 Kroner, 2002 500 Kroner, 2001 1000 Kroner

Romania
2005 5, 10, 50, 100, 200, 500 Lei

South Korea
2006 1000 & 5000, 2007 10000 Won


More to come!

Wow!

Those are some really impressive notes you have there! Good choices on all of those.

Okay, so I've only looked through the Gold Certs at the moment. They are crisp and gorgeous adn have been high on my list for a while. They are also a little beyong my budget, so I can only imagine what those set you back for.

Briefly looked at them all and...man... I'm so jealous. Gah.. I need money so I can buy money! So crisp and so pretty!

Nice gold certs! In the mail today I received the backing for that $20 note! Those FRBNs are way cool too!

thanks guys! i'll definitely be out of commission for a while as far as buying anything else goes. i was trying to make up for a year of not being able to buy anything, got carried away, and now it looks like i can't be buying much of anything for next year! heheh...this is my update for 2006 - 2008.

update round 2:

Antarctica
2007 $1, $3 (polymer plastic)

Finland
1986-Litt. A 10, 500, 1000 Markka

Germany, Federal Republic
1993 500, 1000 DM

Great Britain
2007 20 Pounds

Lithuania
1997-2000 100, 200, 500 Litu

Pakistan
2006 500, 1000, 5000 Rupees

Portugal
1987-1993 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 Escudos
1996 5000, 10000 Escudos

Singapore
1976-1984 $5, $20, $50
1994 $50



more tomorrow!

Very nice notes.

I see a lot of people have Antarctica notes, undoubtedly mostly bought by tourist. Well, if someone sees a CIRCULATED note from Antarctica, I'd like to see it!

You got a new £20 Welcome to the club you must be the first person not based in the UK to have one of these notes on here

hehehe...i owe that to you. you're the one who pointed out the ebay seller right when they were first introduced.

round 3:

Promotional/Test Notes
De La Rue Currency One, Kryptal 2000, Queen of Spades (Thanks Scottishmoney!)

De La Rue Gori Le Mont 2000, Opti-Nota, Varinota

Giesecke & Devrient BN 2000 "5", 10 Ecu

Norges Banks Seddeltrykkeri Family Day 1995

NT Graf General Zukhov

Oesterreichische Banknoten und Sicherheitsdruck Gustav Klimt

Banc Eireannais, Ltd
2007 $1, $2, $5

Disney Dollars
1993 - 2007 Anaheim, California Issues
Tokyo Disneyland 500, 1000 Yen

lol, i doubt antarctica has very many tourists. these notes are a fundraising project for mcmurdo station and are redeemable for cash until they expire. if you let them expire without cashing them in, you've just made a donation in return for a "souvenir". i think these new notes are definitely worth the few bucks they're selling for. great new design, and they're plastic!

also, the penguins remind me of a certain futurama episode.

YES! One of my favorite episodes... though I have a lot.

Best quote of the episode:

Free Waterfall, Sr.: Good way to avoid frostbite, folks. Put your hands between your buttocks. That's nature's pocket!
Leela: Uh, I think I'll go check on Bender.
Free Waterfall, Sr.: Watch that he doesn't pick your pocket!

lol...if rubbing frozen dirt on your crotch is wrong, then hey, i don't wanna be right.

final round:

Azerbaijan
2005 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Manat

European Union
2002 50, 100, 200, 500 Euro

Greece
1964-1968 50, 100, 500 Drachma

Philippines
1998 2000 Pesos (centennial commemorative)

Poland
1994 200 Zloty, 2006 50 Zloty (Pope John Paul II commemorative)

Slovakia
2006 200, 500, 1000 Korun

Ukraine
2005-2006 100, 500 Hryven



now comes the exciting part...cataloging/attributing each note on the website.

Jeez, man... Azerbaijan.. do you have any countries left to collect?

lol...plenty! Palestine, 1962 Katanga issues (1960 issues are ugly!), Greenland, Sarawak, Malaya, British Borneo, Italian Somaliland, German East Africa, Monaco, Keeling & Cocos, St Pierre et Miquelon, Reunion, Zanzibar, Qatar & Dubai, Rhodesia & Nyasland, Panama, and Tibet.

And that's just countries I don't have. From what I do have, my South Americans can use improvement, I still want a Seychelles "Sex" note, and I need a proper series run from the Bahamas. On the US side, I don't have a single large-sized note, light green seal, chartered bank national, fractional, or obsolete.

There's no such thing as running out of stuff to collect.

WoW! Those are awesome notes, my man! Every one of them. Good job!

Well, this isn't much, but it took me a while to find it in UNC, so I'm glad to finally get it.

Do you have a banknote from Bahrain ? Name a few of your favourite 2 digits number ?

Until a few recent packages from you and another CPer, the only foreign notes I had were from Qatar! Although it helps to have lived there for a year and my mom goes back multiple times a year for business. Though she went about a month ago and forgot to bring back some nice crisp notes....

So Qatari Riyals and a US Large Size... the only two notes I have over you.

Congrats on the awesome acquisition!

i lived in bahrain from 1986-1988. that was my first introduction to foreign money. bahrain has been one of my favorites ever since. if i can just find an uncirculated 1964 5 dinar note, i can pick up the more common 10 dinar, and my entire bahrain series would be just about complete!
http://public.fotki.com/sanmiguel/world_banknotes/bahrain/

as far as 2 digit numbers...i really haven't payed any attention to serial numbers until recently. i only have one 2-digit "real money" note:


the rest are:
#23 pirates of the carribean disney dollars
#1 bank eireannais dollars
#20 coinpeople coinbucks

there's a base in qatar that they send soldiers to for relaxation. my unit in Iraq is small enough, (and cool enough), that we can afford to send everybody once. the bigger units use the small number of seats available as bait to dangle in front of their people to make them jump through hoops. my 4-day pass to visit will be sometime in june or july. so yeah...i'll be hitting up the local dealers for those qatar & dubai notes.

but don't worry, i don't foresee myself going anywhere near large-sized notes for a looong while. even if i had the money for a cu set of 1899 silvers or 1918 nationals, i'd probably go the small sized route and pick up a cu set of large denoms. and unless i hit it big on the lottery, (fingers crossed), i'll be nowhere near even thinking about picking up a set of cu educationals!

thanks! besides a few small purchases here and there, i don't foresee another major buy for at least another two-three years. this last spree of mine made a humungous dent in my e-5 paycheck.

heheh...if only i was an officer.

Hi dbang1988,

Sorry yar..typo error. Thanks for correcting my mistake.

It's really a beautifull note. does it cost you alot for the note?

Well, that answer is an interesting story. Part of my search for it in UNC condition was also finding it in UNC condition at a reasonable price. I could find several in various other conditions for various prices, but none in XF/EF or UNC until about two weeks ago. Then I found one for sale but it was at twice the catalog price. While I understand that the catalog is only a 'ballpark' figure, I thought it a bit unreasonable, and thought I could wait a while and see. Then about one week later I stumbled onto this lovely note when looking for something else and it was priced at exactly what my catalog stated (and my catalog is one issue old) plus it was not an auction, but a direct sale... so I pounced on it! The seller stated that they had had several of these notes in the past, but never one in UNC ... so I think I may have actually done fairly well on this one.

to you on your search.

Why were you there then? What was the gulf region like back in the day?

my dad was in the navy and i was an elementary student at bahrain school. it was great! nobody had to lock their doors, the field trips were awesome (we toured the ancient dilmun mentioned in gilgamesh, old forts, pearl diving dhows, navy ships), and there was still a sizeable british population and lots of english-speaking bahrainis. heheh...i also remember bob hope coming down for a uso christmas special. unfortunately, i also remember when the uss stark was hit by a missile, and the next year when the uss vincennes shot down a civilian airliner.

my school was ran by the department of defense dependents school system, but it was classified as a private international school. the navy base was pretty small, so only about a quarter of the students were americans. so, school was off on thursdays and fridays and the week started on saturday. during ramadan, our glass-walled cafeteria was curtained up so that the fasters didn't have to see us chowing down.

whenever we'd go on field trips though, my parents would give me a few dinars to spend on souvenirs. the highest bill i ever got to handle was a 5-dinar note (about $15), with the rest being 1's and halves. when i first started collecting notes, getting the 10 & 20 was one of my first priorities. being able to hold a crispy new 20 in my hand, and to know it was mine...that was one of the greatest feelings ever.

to this day, money from the countries i lived in still are and always will be my favorite. there's just so many good memories attached to them!

I laugh because they gave the handful of Westerners at my school our own private room during ramadan. We could bring anything we wanted from home or the stores for lunch. Nothing healthy of course! Our Muslim classmates would try to break in and eat. Twas fun...

I went to Qatar Academy - the richest, newest private school there. All the best families sent their kids there. Out of the 16 people in 8th grade with me, one was second in line for the thrown, another was his younger brother from the Emir and the Queen. A few others were sons of the Emir and his sisters or secondary wives. Others in the class were of the Al-Thani family too or from other powerful families. Coming in as the only westerner in my year, and being the smartest and fastest in my year was not fun for the others who were used to being the best. I experienced racism from the victim's perspective for the first time in my life. I hail from Virginia, so I've seen it from the outside plenty of times. This was my first time as one of the players...

Anywho, you said you visit Doha ever so often. I'm sure you'll eventually (if you haven't already) crossed paths with QA.


Boy... I could talk for hours on my time there. But I apologize to everyone who reads this thread but didn't want to read this little convo between us

But if you want an exotic, exciting, and cheap vacation... hit up the Gulf States before they get too expensive or popular!

My latest purchase, got this unc notes for very good bargain...more to come later on. Image are taken from ebay

Nice haul! I've always like Madagascar notes with their dual denominations in Francs and Ariary along with their designs of everyday activities.

Agree! Stunning and vivid colors - I can only imagine what they are like in hand.

They are so vibrant, the colours seem alive

agreed. very colorful! heheh...i think the guy on the 10.000 knows something the others don't.

The guy on the 10,000 think that someone is talking behind his back. He can feel it.

The guy on the 1000 had a hard life as a fisherman. He want to to be taxi driver so that he will not always have to smell fishy all the time.

lol... I agree with Mike... I figured it out that the old man is chuckling inside because he isn't just "Uncle" to the youngsters... he's a little more than that.

Well have just taken the plunge and bought a couple of hundred assorted notes LOL who knows I might like them and they were not exspensive

The first bits of my collection

Some AU-UNC Euros (3x 5 Euro, 3x 10 Euro, and 1x 20 Euro)