Pick M5b Japanese Invasion Money Malaya 4 Piece Uncut One Dollar

 An unusual piece of 4 Piece Uncut $1 Japanese Invasion Money aka banana money issued for use in Japanese Occupied Malaya during WW2, consisting of 4 pieces of $1 denomination of various Block Letters, a rather interesting piece of numismatic history.

This piece should be an archival piece meant to be stored in Tokyo as one can see the annotation therein bearing a signature of a bank official together with the its date.

It's made of thick firm paper, with rather strong embossment on the paper surface.

A rather unusual never seen before numismatic paper in the fascinating world of Japanese Invasion Money collecting!

Pick Unknown 5 Ringgit Polymer Banknote Low Numbers 0000520 Uncirculated Malaysia

 A 5 Ringgit Polymer banknote from Malaysia with a rather attractive eye-appealing green color, bearing the rather low numbers of 0000520, not extremely low serial numbers actually, ideally, it should have 6 zeroes.

As such, it's not truly 101% bearing a truly low serial numbers & neither does it carry an attractive low serial number as after all, the number 520 is rather huge, not to mention its unattractiveness and without any special hidden meaning.

It bears the obvious stylish signature of the previous Governor. Of course, to stay en vogue, we are looking for similar banknote bearing the current Governor.

Pick 13b Half Rupee Burma Block BA Japanese Government Uncirculated

 A Half Rupee banknote issued for use during the Japanese Occupation of Burma with the Block Letters of BA and as catalogued as Pick 13b in surprisingly still pristine condition.

However, there is nothing to gloat about  about this tiny piece of obsolete numismatic paper as apparently, lots of these were issued by the Japs, and as everyone knows, the result was the inevitable hyperinflation & the worthlessness of the monetary value of such notes issued, something the Japs should be extremely famous & proud of for such a ''feat'' during WW2.

And one can see lots of this Half Rupee banknote being offered for sale via online sites like eBay, showing how much it must have been printed off the press then.

((For those who have banknotes for sale, please write in with your phone numbers)).

P 2a Oceania Japanese Occupation 1 Shilling ERROR With Extra Paper

A so-called 1 Shilling defective banknote from a defunct nation known as Oceania under the Japs during World War II as catalogued as P 2a by Pick.
A somewhat unusual note due to the excess paper found at the upper top-left edge & also with the bottom margin of the Obverse shifted down, all the way down, while the Reverse's entire design seems to be rather intact.
There has been quite a number of error banknotes found on JIM notes issued under Malaya, but most of them are not with excess paper or a 'fish tail.'
Apparently, not many Oceania's notes have defects as one seldom do see them either up for sale or been shared online, esp. one with this excess ugly piece of paper.
Above it all, for numismatics' purists, this piece of obsolete numismatic paper is in Uncirculated condition.
And it has yet to be chemically cleaned!

Japanese Occupation Oceania P.1B Half Shilling Block OA PMG EF 45

A Half Shilling note from Oceania under the Japanese Occupation period with the Block Letters of OA as catalogued by Kraus as P.1B & also catalogued by Schwan Boling as SB2212A but unfortunately, this is a low grade note. 
Wishing for a long time to upgrade to a PMG 66 one as grapevine has it that someone Down Under has it. So, if you have it, raise your hand & say what price that you want! Everyone has a price, as such, don't say it's NFS!
Also looking for the Block Letter of OB got this Half Shilling issue and wouldn't mind starting from a lower grade one as a start.

P 1a 1945 Oceania Block Letters OA Half Shilling Japanese Invasion Money PMGed

A rather high grade 1/2 Shilling Japanese Invasion numismatic paper from the so-called now defunct entity called Oceania which looks unmistakebly like a strong EF note but now only graded as a lowly VF 35 by the esteemed numismatic experts, PMG.

But  it's just one of those things whereby an EF note is graded as VF as we are not experts, we are merely small-time, part-time amateur anchovies-in-the-ocean collectors. Would one make noise if a raw note bought as EF and then subsequently graded as AUNC 58 EPQ by PMG?! It's just one of those things, sozusagen.

But the question is why bother getting this all-common lowly JIM note graded, as there is nothing therein gloatable or crow about, esp. gradewise, as most serious numismatic buggers are targetting grades like PMG 68 & above these days, the higher the better? And also the Block Letters of OA is the all-common one as everyone or almost everyone knows OC is the Block Letters that every serious collector desires. Maybe it's one of those "I want to complete the set" things, perhaps...

Burma Japanese Invasion Money 1 Rupee Block Letters Omitted

***A worthless 1 Rupee Japanese Invasion Money used in Burma but which seems to come without its all-common Block letters of BD.
But surely, the all-efficient Japs couldn't have omitted printing the Block letters.
And if local Malaysian banknotes can have had the Agung portraits on them removed, & thus, making them 'excellent errors', surely, these JIM notes' Block letters could be removed too,& very easily that is, esp. now that there are so many newly crowned sifus, or rather senseis or better still, grandmasters, in the Malaysian numismatic world.
That being the case, then, this banknote is nothing but a 'post-mint job', but a very professionally done 'post-mint job' that each and everyone of us should & must be proud of.

Malaya 1942 50 Cents Block MB Japanese Invasion Money

***Nowadays all types of banknotes are being sent to PMG for grading even though some or rather, many of these banknotes are inexpensive ones, giving the impression that it's not that expensive to have had banknotes graded by PMG or that PMG belongs to one's grandfather.
Take this 50 cents JIM as a fine example as it is currently catalogued at RM20 a piece, that is, mind you, for a UNC piece, and an AUNC piece would, naturally, be priced very much lower than that, so, why send such a cheap banknote to PMG to be 'slabbed' unless of course, PMG must be owned by one's father or one's grandfather.

Malaya 1961 Buffalo Banknote

***For whatever reason or reasons, this last winter, the prices for the British Malaya's Buffalo Banknotes have crept skywards non-stop and these days, one can no longer buy a decent looking piece for a song and even a tired & haggard looking one for the entry-class level sort of collector is no longer cheap.
Why the sudden uptick for this banknote whereby lots of them are actually available, one will never ever know because the Smart Alec collectors are the ones who are in the know and they are saying that they will buy at higher & higher still prices.
And as usual, when it comes to the topic of buying, it's always better to buy when it's high rather than buy when it's low as that's how things are as well in the stock market, in the property market, in the precious metals market & what not.
Because when one buys high, lots of others are also doing the same thing & thus, one can buy 'with confidence' & so what if one 'dies' because all others will die too; so its better to 'die' together than to 'die' alone..........
That's how things work in this world. Fuck contrarianism! Name one Smart Alec who is a true contrarian who deserves the Noble Prize!

Malaya 1942 $1,000

***Among the positive vestiges left by the colonialisation of Malaya by the British must be the various banknotes printed for use in the then British Malaya & among many, one of those that stood out & continue to stand out will be the so-called King Of The Kings, the $1,000 banknote dated 1942 with the vignette of KGVI.

How many pieces of this note actually still exist today? Some said there are 30 pieces & some said there are 50 but who cares about all these coffee-shop talk?

How many of you in Malaysia have actually seen this banknote, held it, gawked at it and wishing at that moment to have something that you can't even dream of dreaming?

For those who have this gigantic piece of numismatic history, they fall into the so-called exclusive gloating club for they can crow & crow about this King Of The Kings & for the rest, having this note is just a fantasy play, it's no different compared to your childhood fantasy of lusting over your local newly crowned beauty queen.

And the best part with this particular piece of banknote is that even in the World Headquarters For Banknotes Washing & Pressing, the many numismatic scums based there do not bother to chemically clean & wash this banknote for I suppose they still do possess a little bit of gray matter inside their thick skulls.

These scums who can never stop chemically cleaning low grade notes & then, selling them at 'higher grades' are actually contributing towards the killing of this hobby, but, by now, many folks know the modus operandi of these numismatic scums and even a 6-yr-old kid can give you the correct answer if you were to ask him where the World Headquarters Of The Banknotes Washing & Pressing is located at?

Malaya 1940 $5 Blue SPECIMEN

***This is an expensive banknote dated 1940 from Malaya with a face value of $5 & stamped "Specimen" & bears the low Serial NOs of 00046.

This is definitely a banknote that you can gloat about if you have it in your collection!

Malaya 1940 $1 Green

***This is the rather unusual & officially unissued $1 green note dated 1940 from Malaya which, somehow, managed to land safely on the shores of the, then, Malaya, from a British cargo ship that was torpedoed, so said the now well-repeated story.

Apparently less than 20 pieces of this note exist, a number too small to be shared by so many collectors today!

Malaya 1928-34 Rubber Export Coupon 5 Katis

***A rare 5 Katis uniface Rubber Export Coupon dated 1928 to 1934 from British Malaya in Fine condition, with no holes or tears.

This Rubber Export Coupon comes in the form of 5, 10, 25 Katis & 1 & 10 Piculs. However, the smallest denomination of 5 Katis is the rarest of it all.

And believe the catalogues not as far as prices are concerned as such rubber coupons are transacting at 20 to 30 times the catalogued prices on the ground!

Malaya 1940 25Cents Emergency Note UNC

***Malaya 1940 25Cents Emergency Banknote in Original UNC condition.

Malaya 1942 $50 KGVI Original VG/About Fine

***An Original Note - Never Washed (Most that have been sold at 'higher grades' have been chemically Washed & then, Pressed)

There are several holes/punctures (1 of them is at the centre)& stapleholes on this note.

Malaya 1940 KGVI $10 'Purple Note" VF

*** There is a ball-pen mark on the word "States" on the Obverse.

Price = US$520

Malaya KGVI 1942 $100 Good Fine

***Atiny hole at the centre of the note has been patched up.

Original Note, Not Washed.

Malaya KGVI 1942 $50 VG/aFine

***There is a hole at the centre of the note.

Original Note, Not Washed.

Price = US$1,300

Malaya KGVI 1942 $50 aVF/VF

*** Original, Not Washed

Malaya 1941 KGVI 5Cents Rare 'b&c' Variety AU/UNC

*** There is 1 counting flick/mark, otherwise, note is practically UNC.