***A solid total of 500,000 pieces of this $50 Polymer banknote were issued 13 years ago and that means the banknote that bears the Serial NOs 500000 is the 500,000th note, ie., the last banknote of this series.I wonder who is the proud owner of this 500,000th banknote. Surely, it's not yours truly & as such, don't look at me!
I am rather sure that this particular last banknote must be in some serious collector's safe hands.
As a consolation, I can only get hold of the 499,994th note, ie., the 6th last note of this series, a consolation prize you can say.
Actually, I came across this banknote just a few days by chance.
I was on business in Johor and was putting up for a night at the Silver Inn Hotel in Batu Pahat and right across this hotel at a car-park space every morning, there is actually a very bustling Morning Market whereby several Malay & Orang Asli chaps sell various numismatic stuff.
As this banknote was only going for RM150, I thought why not getting it as a souveniras the Batu Pahat folks have been very nice to me, esp, the staff at the Silver Inn Hotel's spa.
Only when I was back home that I realised that this is the 499,994th note of the series.
By the way, I also saw several other pieces of this $50 Polymer Series for sale at the same stall owned by this very affable Malay chap.
Some of them carrying rather fancy numbers like 000111, 000222, 000444, 000666, etc, etc, but I am really not into such notes. They were priced at RM200 each.
2 comments:
Good buy and good lucky number!
Can share-share some of your good collections ah?
We should go for a tea-tarik session one of these days so that we can have a lengthy chat about all things numismatic!
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