Its been over 20 years I have been collecting some form of money like paper money, coins, bonds and all sort of other collectables. My list of collectable include matchboxes, movie tickets, bus tickets, etc. When I look at my collection now I feel I have collected a piece of history. Over the period of time I have met and became friends with all sort of people who collect money and other things for all different reason.
My date with collection started around 7 to 8 years of age when a juice vendor in Delhi gave me an American Quarter instead of 50 paise in spare change and I found it interesting how different money is in the world. My mom showed me couple of foreign coins which made me more excited. Over the period of time I became friends with collectors with whom I exchanged and bought the coins. Till date I have all the notes produced by Reserve Bank of India since 1947 till date with individual changes collected like governor signature, introduction of Rs Sign and much more. Also over 400 type of coins.
Generally I have seen habit of collection is generic and found its way from parents to kid. Some of the best collections I have seen so far happened when they transferred from parents to kid. My friend who gave me oldest note in my Indian collection has his collection from his dad who also inherited from his dad and because of this inheritance he has one of the best collection of Pre Independence Era coins and notes.
One of the buyer from Riches Of The World I met he actually buy coins of all extraordinary shape except round. Most extra ordinary I found was his collection of Canadian Maple Leaf Shaped Coins.
One of My Uncle supplied me with 50 different types of Canadian Quarter Dollar. He collect Canadian and US coin year wise.
Some people collect coins from all countries for there birth year or for some important year.
I have found large population who collect coins as an investment to be sold of lately.
Some are like me who just want to collect money and other things to preserve there own piece of history.
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