1965 Burundi Notes Questions

Based on sold auction prices the 10 and 20 franc are worth getting graded. The 5 franc notes are a maybe.

Hopefully the mounting did not leave creases in the corners.

The top two 5 Franc notes are consecutive, and worth getting graded, they appear to be UNC 64 or 65 on the face.

All three types are scarce notes, not rare, but not often seen. For the money, I'd grade all of them.

When you get them back, take some good photos, and put them on ebay yourself. Your reserve or opening should be your cost per note, $X/5 plus grading costs/5.

I decided to go back to the well and buy some more notes. Now I have 9 consecutive 5 francs notes all unc. The question now is, where do I market these? It seems that ebay is maybe not the right place. They have been up there for 5 days now and only 3 views. There must be a better place. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you again for the help!

Ok. Maybe I'm wrong and Heritage Auctions is right. I sent them photos of these notes, thinking they might want to handle them. Heritage sent me the attached message saying that they are only worth $50 - $100 for the entire lot of 17 notes. How can this be? Please help, as I'm about to jump out my window. Thank you.

Hello Davis,

Thank you for contacting Heritage Auctions. You have some interesting notes here, which I would value at approximately $50-$100 overall. We would probably need a higher critical mass of value in order to handle these notes, but you can certainly try listing them on ebay or perhaps bring them to a local coin and currency shop in your area.

I appreciate you contacting us here at Heritage Auctions. IF I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks,


Luke Mitchell
Consignment Director
Heritage Auctions

As usual, good advice from paxbrit.

Presently ebay really IS the market for non-rare notes. Yes, you'll pay transaction fees but that's a cost of doing business.