Discovering the Heritage of Strait Settlement Coins

 

Philippines, 2,000 Piso, 2001, Commemorative (P-189c)

This Philippines 2,000 Piso have a very interesting story on it, normally when a national Bank issue a commemorative banknotes, the banknotes should be a legal tender as the face value of the specific banknotes, but when Philippines Central Bank issued this commemorative banknotes, it is clearly stated that the notes are not legal tender.

Below are the story told on the banknotes from the Numista website,

P#189c was intended to be issued as legal tender in 2001, but President Estrada was ousted from office that year, so the notes were stored in the vaults of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. As of 2010, the bank was considering destroying the bulk of these unissued notes, saving only 50,000 pieces which would be demonetized for "historical, educational, numismatic and other purposes."
In 2012 that the bank began selling this numismatic product in a folder that clearly stipulates that the notes are not legal tender.

For more information about this banknotes, you may visit Numista website link here. And the price guide at PMG website link here.

 

1976 Proposed design Satu Ringgit and Lima Ringgit banknote

Recently found an interesting post in Facebook from Thomasina Smith, in her post she introduce 2 piece of very special banknotes for their coming Noonans Auctions, this dated 1976 Satu Ringgit and Lima Ringgit banknote is said to be one of the proposed design from De La Rue submit for Bank Negara Malaya that time.

The original Facebook post can be seen here.

 

Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee First Day Cover

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and 15 at the time of her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female monarch in history.

A brief history of QEII can be found in wikipedia link here.

I'm very lucky to have a chance getting one of my favorite Fist Day Cover this year with the theme of "Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee" issued by the UK Royal Mail.

Here some of the photo for a closer looks at this beautiful designed FDC.

 

1942 Malaya 10,000 Dollars Color Trial Specimen

On the 9th April 2022, PMG - Paper Money Guaranty is introducing a piece of rare 1942 Malaya 10,000 Dollars Color Trial Specimen in their social media in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, PMG is introducing this banknotes in conjunction with the Monetarium Auction happening in the same months, below are the introduction sentence taken from PMG Facebook Page,

Bidding is already up to SGD60,000 (about $44,000 USD) for this Malaya 1942 10,000 Dollars Color Trial Specimen. It's one of hundreds of PMG-certified banknotes in a Monetarium Singapore sale this month, and is in the Day 6 session. Explore the sessions: https://auctions.monetarium.com #numismatics #papermoney #banknote #worldpapermoney #papermoneycollecting #banknotecollection #malaya

 

Malaysia First Commemorative Coin with Sapphire Stone Inserts

Today received the Poslaju parcel send from Bank Negara Malaysia for the commemorative coin that I ordered from their website, this commemorative coin is issued in conjunction with the 25th Anniversary of the Labuan Services Authority (LFSA). The details of the issuance of this coin can be found in the BNM official website link here.

One interesting fact is this is the first time that Bank Negara Malaysia had issued a numismatic coin that have a sapphire stone inserts on it. The stone is marking the location of the capital city for Labuan Island which us Victoria or sometimes in call Bandar Labuan, the history of the Bandar Victoria can be found in the Wikipedia link here. 

 

Trigometric 8th Kuala Lumpur International Numismatic Fair 2022

 

In conjunction with the 8th Kuala Lumpur International Numismatic Fair 2022 and Trigometric 20th Anniversary Celebration, Trigometric will officially soft launch the world's 1st and largest numismatic NFT and marketplace between 1st to 3rd April 2022.

Beside the soft launch of the numismatic NFT and market place, Trigometric will also issuing the exclusive Tiger Year commemorative test note for the event.

The official link for RSVP and purchase of the commemorative test note can be found here.