Why I collect banknotes and not coins …
by om007 on Nov.10, 2010, under General Information
My name is om007 and from time to time i will contribute to this very interesting blog .. I once found a Roman coin in the wild and i must admit it was quite a thrill but i do find coins quite limiting in terms of size, colors, motifs, information.
Here is a picture with my biggest (Russia 1912), a current 10 Swiss Francs and my smallest banknote (Morocco 1944). I must have all the sizes in between. Every note is full of faces or historical places, celebrities or weird symbol. As Proteus does for each note, there is always a lot to search and discover in the fine prints, small differences, historical references. The materials used are also quite different .. From rough cardboard to polymer and all the changing quality of papers.. From one-sided to multi-layer security and hologram. A lot of banknotes also have been used to doodle, write, annotate or share info with the next person to receive it ….All this makes the Banknotes collection much more appealing to me than a pure Coin collection ..
I will be sharing some of the interesting pieces of my collection soon …..
Biggest - Smallest
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November 12th, 2010 on 14:37
Yay om007: your first blog post. As per the content, I have made it a point to purchase many old Russian banknotes that are very large. If nothing else, they will sell at some point because of this fact. They would look really amazing framed, I think. They are not very scarce, but that’s a good thing at this point, because they can be purchased cheaply. As far as smallest notes go, wouldn’t that also go to Russia? I do believe that they had different denominations of Kopeks in postage stamp form … could be wrong. Don’t have my catalog in front of me today!
November 29th, 2010 on 13:11
Russian collectors call the 500 ruble note (dated 1912) as the most beautiful banknote in Russian paper-money history.
November 29th, 2010 on 18:46
Wow … that’s interesting to know. I love the dimensions too, because the banknote is absolutely perfect for framing.