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Pursuant to a post made on the 6th day of February recently, it was mentioned here that the so-called Last Prefix for this RM100 deno Series is the prefix of BE, but it is now being solemnly & gloomily hereby announced that actually events have superceded the prefix BE & BE is not indeed not the Last Prefix as per therein mentioned.
A very, very Good Numismatic Samaritan has kindly pointed out that the Last Prefix for this P.55 100 Ringgit deno is actually the Prefix of BG & apparently this Prefix of BG is currently much sought after as it closes the book for the RM100 deno series sozusagen.
And the usually unreliable grapevine has it that so-called very serious numismatists are willing to pay 50% more than the face value for this BG prefixed note for their collections. This could be true as very few UNC pieces have been so far found.
Could it be that the BG is not completed printed in its entirety & the consequences of which is its scarcity in the fabulous & fantastic world of numismatics?
And could it be BG is indeed the true-blue Real McCoy Last Prefix for the RM100 deno or could there be other prefixes so far yet to discovered? For the non-paranoid, it's a safe bet that BG is indeed the last of the last of the prefixes for the RM100 deno, indeed........
It's amazing what 3 years can do to turn an ordinary banknote into something scarce & of course, the Malaysian RM1 ZB Polymer Replacement is the current star of the Malaysian numismatics' universe.
A UNC piece 3 years ago was considered very expensive then, but a miserable well-circulated VF piece today that's being sold at a crazy price is considered cheap.
But of course the piece herein featured is nothing much to trumpet about after all, despite it's polymer in nature, and as such its perfectness, its pristineness & its UNCness, are never in question but it's still only got a lowly PMG 65 score from leading banknotes' grader of the world, PMG. And for a polymer note to get 65 is considered not good as polymer is perfect, as good as a Bo Dereklike perfect 10, but nonetheless it got a 65.
Had it got a PMG 68 or PMG 69 like it's currently en vogue in the Malaysian numismatic world, surely, it could have secured a place in this coming fall's Spink auction in Singapore and possibly, or rather most probably, could have created a new record of sorts for the price chartered, as the note is not as rare as its grade itself, namely, the all-desired & yearned-for PMG 69 or even PMG 70*!
With regards to the current non-stop speculation about the respective Last Prefixes of the current Malaysian banknotes, apparently, grapevine has confirmed strongly that the Last Prefix for the RM100 series is none other than the Prefix of BE.
In fact, many numismatic dealers in Kuala Lumpur are already hoarding these BE notes as they know they will be very valuable in the foreseeable future as the Last Prefix always carries a hefty premium as far as Malaysian banknotes are concerned.
No wonder, it's so freaking hard to even find a piece of this RM100 BE prefixed banknote as news travels fast & the BE notes are being hoarded by these intellectual numismatics dealers who are now only always in the know but who also have very, very deep pockets.....
It's certainly nothing but pure wonkish hogwash to say that esteemed & leading third party numismatic paper grader, PMG, does not grade Malaysian banknotes bearing the 10 Millionth Serial Number.
That's not true as can be hereinattested as 2 copies of such notes with 2 different fonts have been very, very recently properly & professionally graded by PMG, with one piece even given a pedestal-high grade of PMG 68, which is a sky-high score for a 10 millionth note of this series, certainly an ONLY piece with such a score & most certainly will remain so until the end of time.
The second piece with a different font variety also was professionally & properly checked & graded by PMG & was given a rather respectable score of PMG 66 & there's no shame in getting a 66 score certainly as it's not every Sunday that one gets a 68 score & of course, when one gets a 68 score or higher, there's no shame to indulge in some self-gloating as after all, there's a cause to indulge, there's a cause to gloat.
A picture paints a thousand words, so a famous chap once said & the duly PMG graded notes here proof that Malaysian 1 Ringgit notes from the P.39 series with the serial numbers of 10,000,000 are gradeable by PMG and as such, don't hesitate to send such similar banknotes to be graded & in one shot to be for posterity encapsulated so that such notes can be for posterity protected in PMG's high quality Mylar encapsulation.
An almost 50-year-old obsolete numismatic paper but still virginlike, fresh from the press with bright, striking hues & immaculate preservation thru all these years & deservingly graded by esteemed Third Party Grader, PMG, as PMG 68 EPQ, just 3 marks away from a Bo Derek-like perfect score of Perfect 10.
With a score of PMG 68, it sits at the top of he Population Report unchallenged for this issue & it's very doubtful if there will be another from this same series being graded higher as it's doubtful that another similar note could have been so well preserved for so long.
3 long bows to that old chap who has kept this numismatic paper so well preserved through all these donkey years....
A 5 Ringgit Replacement with the Prefix of NZ which has been deservingly authenticated & graded by world renown independent 3rd party obsolete papermoney grader, PMG, with a rather respectable score of PMG 67, which is just 3 points away from the perfect 10 score of PMG 70.
However, this obsolete numismatic paper was the one very commonly printed by Thomas De La Rue as there is another similar note but which was printed by Canadian Banknote Co, which is actually the all-desired very much sought-after one as this is the scarce one as this is the only obsolete Malaysian numismatic papermoney printed by a Canadian printer & as such, it's very rare as far the printer is concerned.....
A 10 Ringgit banknote issued way, way back 35 years ago but in excellent, pristine & virgin-like condition, very fresh from the printer-like, with vibrant red hue & snow-white-like white borders.
But sadly, it only got a grade of PMG 68 even though conditionwise, it looks virgin-like, untouched & unsoiled & smells like the yet unsmelled just bloomed roses & everyone & anyone who have seen this note agree that it truly deserves a PMG 70 score & if there were to be a PMG 80 score, it truly do deserves that very superlative score as this is truly a Bo Derek-like Perfect 10 hottie banknote....
