Top Document: Paper Money Collecting FAQ Previous Document: 3.18) How much do USA banknotes weigh? Next Document: 4.2) How do I get banknotes from every country in the world? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Your best bet is to go through a dealer or another avid collector. You can also keep whatever is left in your wallet after a trip to another country, but you'll end up with a very limited set of notes in bad condition. Most countries have notes that cost less than 1 or 2 US dollars. Countries with rampant inflation will have a lot of notes from previous years which are very cheap (South America, Yugoslavian countries, Eastern Europe). Dealers get their notes from contacts within the countries who buy CU packs (crisp uncirculated). The world being what it is, often dealers take big losses when contacts in remote countries essentially take the money and run (I've heard of a major dealer who took a big loss in Mongolia recently). Some countries don't allow currency to be taken out of the country, so people have to risk punishment to get the notes (e.g. Mauritania). Doing business wholesale is tricky, but if you travel to a remote part of the world, you can sometimes get dealers to pay you to pick up CU packs. User Contributions:Top Document: Paper Money Collecting FAQ Previous Document: 3.18) How much do USA banknotes weigh? Next Document: 4.2) How do I get banknotes from every country in the world? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Bruce Giese <giesewpm@tiac.net>
Last Update March 27 2014 @ 02:11 PM
|
Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: