First Page
Previous Page
Posted 10/16/2022 3:59 pm
Quote:
Very nice notes everyone! I love how colorful foreign currency is.
Very nice notes everyone! I love how colorful foreign currency is.
-Thanks! Most nations use colourful designs on their currency including Canada. I started out on my own nation's currency but branched into world notes since most lower denominations are fairly inexpensive in UNC. This makes them hard to resist.
Continuing on Bas S Warwick's theme, the $10 below is the first paper note the Government of Hong Kong produced since the QEII notes they put out in the 1960's:
It's colourful but small format & rather abstract design. The same design was then issued in polymer & one sees about 5 to 1 listings for the polymer versions. In comparison, below is a $10 from 1983 & from the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation which is quite large and very attractive in hand:
I paid about $3.00 for the first 2002 government paper $10 & about $7.50 for the much larger chartered banknote. Later, I won an earlier (& tougher) date from the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation from an auction for about $5.00 & this note is serious eye candy!
My point is- you can pick them up for next to nothing in circulated grades (not that I would recommend this but many do). Yet in UNC they're also fairly inexpensive but the colours show even better & for me that's the pay off (plus I know I or someone I gift them to) can unload them easily.
And there would be no way I could get an UNC 40 year old note from my country for so incredibly cheap. Even if a collector friend was kind enough to part with an AU Birds $10 for $20 (or $25) that would be an amazing deal (but a super common Canadian note). It would be much harder to part with as so many Canadians have hoarded AU & circulated notes. To buy one here, in Canada, I would have to pay 13% tax on top of the LCS's price & I would definitely be much smarter to get an UNC even though it won't appreciate much.
Edited by walk2dwater
10/16/2022 4:03 pm
10/16/2022 4:03 pm
