This is an extraordinary banknote collection! Well done! I’m sure it will be even more valuable in the future. It is amazing that you had the chance to visit so many countries and to collect them. I was really impressed to see in real the paper money from South Africa and India.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find the banknotes and the coins from Croatia and Serbia that I promised to give you, but I hope I’ll visit the countries soon and keep my word
Here is a photo of a small coin collection that I captured upon my return from Dubrovnik. The coins from Croatia are lipe and kune, and the 1 stotinka is from Bulgaria.
Thank you for the kind words. Honestly speaking it took me years to collect them. I had had this dream for a very long time, but was scared to start collecting. Once I started, everything got easy afterwards.
I am very curious to see part of your collection of stamps. I know there are very rare among them, hard to find and with very big value.
Do you mind sharing with us some of them and how did you get them?
I am so much happy that you loved this post and the collection that I gathered. I believe every piece of it brings memories to a certain person or a place.
It would be great to see Croatian and Serbian money. So far I haven’t had the chance to gather some, but I hope in near future I will get the chance to travel there and collect great memories!
Here is another place that I loved visiting - Kuala Lumpur and seeing for the first time in my life Malaysian ringgit.
I have a thing for foreign currency just like you.
When I was younger, my father worked as a mechanical engineer on industrial production machinery. He was one of very few people who could fix these machines, so part of his job was to travel around the world and repair the machine in the factories.
He always brought back a little bit of money for me so I started collecting the bills and coins. I still have my collection somewhere in a box, and I know it contains close to 100 different currencies.
After many currencies have been replaced by the euro, I mostly collect the refrigerator magnets myself. It is an easy item to take home with you.
This is such an interesting story that you shared! I must say I am more than curious to see, when possible, your collection and which currencies that are now replaced by euro you have. Do you remember which one was your favorite?
What is more, I also share with you the same hobby for collecting refrigerator magnets. The refrigerator in my house is entirely packed with magnets… : )
It would be more than great to see some of your collections - both money and magnets.
Thank you for joining in the conversation and I am so glad that you liked the post.
I am more than curious to see part of your collection. Are you saying that in Nigeria there are mostly paper money and coins are extremely rare? It would be great learn more about this.
By the way, here is a photo of 50 Kenyan shillings. Have you ever been there or seen the currencies in Kenya?
The language on the coins is the Arabic alphabet, but not sure if it is written in Arabic, Urdu or Farsi as it is not very obvious. Everything depends from the regions where they come from.
You know that Arabic alphabet is used by many countries, but not all of them speak Arabic and the words are very different.
@BorrisS This is so interesting. So one thing is sure, this is Arabic language and most probably those coins were used in some of those countries. They look very old though.
