The current economic climate has made it difficult to continue writing about paper money without relating it to the reality that befalls us all. Life has become very stressful for most. No job, no home and little prospects of seeing the light at the end of this dark tunnel!
So what do you really think! My advice is what ever extra money you have saved up needs to be wisely invested in non paper money investments such as gold, silver, land or property. Things will get worse before they get better and leaving your hard earned cash in a bank as paper money will not serve you well in the long run.
Have you noticed that both banks on either side of the Atlantic Ocean have taken to selling off their gold and silver reserves to keep the price of gold down? Once its all gone the prices are going to shoot up sky high, this will in turn deplete the value of paper money to never before low levels.
The history of paper money in the east is about to repeat itself in the west. Take note and heed the well meant warning. I am not an economics expert but there is a bubble that is about to burst try and help yourself and get something tangible from your hard earned savings. Buy gold or silver now!
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Paper Money, Gold or Silver?
Friday, 10 October 2008
Paper Money Collecting Events In USA
Friday, October 10 - Saturday, October 11
IKO-TAMS Token & Medal Show
Auglaize Cty. Fairgrounds
W. Auglaize St
Wapakoneta, Ohio
419-657-2331
tokenguy@ohiolink.net
30 tables, Admission free
Friday, October 10 - Sunday, October 12
Coin & Currency Show
Radisson Hotel
700 Elm St
Manchester, New Hampshire
978-658-0160
info@ebwpromotions.com
120 tables, Admission $3.00
Friday, October 10 - Sunday, October 12
Historic Downtown Greenville Coin Show
Old Post Office
2920 Lee St
Greenville, Texas
903-454-9198 or 903-268-2556
Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Central TX Coin Show
Wingate Inn
1209 N. IH-35 & Hwy 79 exit 253
Round Rock, Texas
512-339-2923
40 tables, Admission $3.00
Saturday, October 11
Valley Coin Show
Commons
525 4th Ave. N
Kent, Washington
253-537-6049
Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Coin & Currency Club Show
DAV
4801 37th St. N
St. Petersburg, Florida
727-403-8662
robert_wly@yahoo.com
36 tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Coin & Stamp Show
Ramada
4079 W. US 10
Ladington, Michigan
231-757-9950
30 (27) tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Coin & Collectable Show
Heritage Church Meeting
4799 S. Bradley Rd
Santa Maria, California
805-937-1250
20 (18) tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Harrisburg Coin Club Show
U.S.W.A. Union Hall 1688
200 Gibson St
Steelton, Pennsylvania
717-939-8287
40 tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Coin Show
Miracle City Mall
2500 S. Washington Ave
Titusville, Florida
386-427-8927
titusvillecoinclub@gmail.com
35 tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Greeley Coin Club Show
Greeley Evans Moose Lodge 909
3456 11th Ave
Evans, Colorado
970-339-0006
dcarl722@aol.com
25 tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Stanly Cty. Coin Club Show
Senior Center
Montgomery Ave. & N. Third Streets
Albemarle, North Carolina
704-982-3408
35 tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11
Pee Dee Area Coin Show
Holiday Inn
Florence, South Carolina
dgallie@sc.rr.com
35 tables, Admission free
KS Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
40th Ann. Johnson Cty. Numis. Society Coin,
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
40th Ann. Johnson Cty. Numis. Society Coin, Stamp & Card Show
Lenexa Community Ctr.
I-35 & 95th St
Olathe, Kansas
913-649-7070 or 764-0386
imcinc@planetkc.com
80 (76) tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Fall Coin Show
MCM Elegante Hotel
2020 Menaul Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico
505-217-2053
bob@reftech-intl.com
100 tables, Admission $1.00
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Flint Coin, Stamp & Sports Card Show
Courtland Center Mall
4190 E. Court St
Burton, Michigan
810-695-6430
60 (44) tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
70th Annual INA Coin Show & Convention
Bridge View Ctr.
102 Church St
Ottumwa, Iowa
641-777-0685 or Denny Ross 932-2731
sixty2one@iowatelecom.net
Admission free
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Tidewater Coin Club Show
Convention Ctr.
1000 19th St
Virginia Beach, Virginia
757-222-4343
Admission free
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Fall Coin Club Show
American Legion Bldg.
710 Apperson Dr
Salem, Virginia
540-992-5331
38 (35) tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Largest Stamp Show SW OK Around
Super 8 Motel
2202 Indian Trail Rd
Lawton, Oklahoma
580-355-7135
steblga@msn.com
30 tables, Admission free
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Coin Club 50th Anniversary Coin Show
Casino Aztar Convention Center
421 NW Riverside Dr
Evansville, Indiana
812-963-5291
evansvillecoinclub@insightbb.com
40 tables, Admission $2.00
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Contra Costa Coin Show
Holiday Inn
1050 Burnett Ave
Concord, California
925-351-7605
greenwj@aol.com
36 tables, Admission $2.00
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
49th Annual Tuscarawas County Coin Club Show
Holiday Inn
131 Bluebell Dr. SW, I-77 exit 81
New Philadelphia, Ohio
Admission free
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Southern ID Coin Club 51st Annual Show
Hilton Garden Inn
7699 W. Spectrum St
Boise, Idaho
208-338-9044
41 tables, Admission $1.00
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 12
Wilkes-Bare Coin Club Annual Coin Show
St. Josephs Oblates
Rte. 315
Pittston, Pennsylvania
570-675-5872
40 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Coin & Currency Show
Fire Hall, John St. Quarters
28 John St.
Westminster, Maryland
443-623-7025
ceocoins@comcast.net
30 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Meyer Coin Show
VFW
111 Concord Exchange S.
South Saint Paul, Minnesota
651-402-7480
bmmeyer@usfamily.net
37 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Camelback Collectibles Club Show
Elks Lodge
6398 E. Oak St
Scottsdale, Arizona
480-370-7939
35 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Coin $ Stamp & Collectible Show
Eau Gallie Civic Ctr.
1551 Highland Ave
Melbourne, Florida
321-751-3647
wilson4808@bellsouth.net
Admission free
Sunday, October 12
71st Street Coin Show
Knights of Columbus
2100 E. 71st St
Indianapolis, Indiana
765-446-9535
30 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Detroit Area Coin Show
VFW Post 2645
24222 W. 9 Mile Rd
Southfield, Michigan
810-227-1477
40 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Nickel Trader Coin & Collectible Show
Castle Shannon Mem. Firehall
3600 Library Rd
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
724-941-2338
nickel1356@comcast.net
80 (40) tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Coin & Stamp Show
Catapano Engineering Hall
585 Rte. 110, Broadhollow Rd
Melville, New York
516-557-7096 cell
gsstamps@hotmail.com
Admission free
Sunday, October 12
West Suburban Coin & Collectible Expo
Park Pl. of Countryside Banq. Hall
6200 Joliet Rd
LaGrange-Countryside, Illinois
630-399-9060
85 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Bi-Monthly Tri-State Coin Show
Best Western Motor Inn
Rts. 10 & 101
Keene, New Hampshire
413-422-2794 or 802-254-9340
20 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
38th Annual Coin Club Show
North Side Grade School
806 N. First St
Fairfield, Illinois
618-812-2035
20 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Boca Coin & Collectible Show
St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church
2100 Yamato Rd
Boca Raton, Florida
561-386-4274 or 561-385-3112
sandshark561@bellsouth.net or dimitri199@hotmail.com
Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Coin & Stamp-O-Rama
Middle School
15 Clara Barton St
Dansville, New York
585-335-2609
35 (30) tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
Tri-County Coin Club Show
Fire Hall
99 Clarion St
Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania
814-849-7444
25 tables, Admission free
Sunday, October 12
35th Annual Coin & Collectible Show
Triumph Academy
3000 Vivian Rd, I-75 exit 18 W
Monroe, Michigan
734-241-7004
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Paper Money Collecting and The Credit Crunch
Twenty Pound - by Austin_UK I went to the bank today, Halifax (HBOS), only to find it virtually empty with new paper money being the only bank notes available in these very hard times of a credit crunch. So now I have crispy uncirculated £10 and £20 notes to add to my collection. But at what price?
Didn't we see this coming? Bad debts have piled up for years, and bad credits for decades so we now stand at a point where uncertainty in the financial market is about to take over our econmic lives as we once knew it.
Is your bank going to go under? My simple advice is this, diversify now! Don't keep all your money in one account. Find out the maximum amount that the government will cover each banks account for and keep only that amount in each account.
I like the new notes keep the ones you need to and lets pray that the powers that be will take whatever steps to nip this thing from spreading any further. This is wishful thinking, as action really should have been taken a long while before.
The town of Lewes with their newly launched Lewes Pound has taken their financial destiny in their hands and it might be working! For the rest of us we can only hope that the credit crunch wont drowm our banknotes any further!
Monday, 15 September 2008
The Lewes Pound - The Newest Banknote In England
I was pleasantly suprised that Lewes, a town in Britain had just released the latest paper money banknote. 10, 000 notes were printed and are nearly sold our already. Maybe sold out is a wrong way to put it as these notes are not meant for collector's albums, instead they are supposed to remain in circulation and spent in and around the town of Lewes.
Copyright of TheLewesPound.Org
So why is this proud English town resorting to releasing a new paper note? The have many reasons but I like the one about it's their answer to the present global credit crunch. They have definitely taken their financial matters seriously and into their own hands.
Friday, 25 July 2008
Paper Money and Banknote Collecting Events This Weekend
USA Events: Paper Money and Coin Shows
Friday, July 25 - Sunday, July 27
Coin, Currency & Stamp Expo
Cathedral Hill Hotel
1101 Van Ness Ave
San Francisco, California
818-997-6496
iibick@sbcglobal.net
Admission free
Saturday, July 26
Coin & Collectible Show
Rogers Plaza
972 28th St. W
Grand Rapids, Michigan
616-361-8983
50 tables, Admission free
Saturday, July 26
Spring Coin Show
La Quinta Inn
I-40 exit 317
Crossville, Tennesse
256-534-9149
10 tables, Admission free
Saturday, July 26
Coin & Currency Show
American Legion Post #17
21 Cedar St
Naugatuck, Connecticut
203-746-7531
deecoin@msn.com
20 tables, Admission free
Saturday, July 26
Little Mountains 3rd Annual Coin & Knife Show
Citizens Guaranty Bank
25 River Dr
Irvine, Kentucky
606-723-6682
15 (12) tables, Admission free
Saturday, July 26 - Sunday, July 27
Ark-La-Tex Coin, Stamp & Card Expo
Civic Center
620 Benton Rd
Bossier City, Louisiana
318-868-9077
100 tables, Admission free
Saturday, July 26 - Sunday, July 27
Summer Coin Club Show
American Legion Bldg.
710 Apperson Dr
Salem, Virginia
540-992-5331
38 (35) tables, Admission free
Saturday, July 26 - Sunday, July 27
Original Coin & Currency Show
Moose Lodge
521 Country Club Dr
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
919-790-8544
rarecoins@bellsouth.net
Admission free
Saturday, July 26 - Monday, July 28
36th Annual MD State Coin & Currency Show
State Fair Exhibition Hall
2100 York Rd
Timonium, Maryland
443-623-7025
ceocoins@comcast.net
100 tables, Admission free
Sunday, July 27
4th Sunday of the Month Coin Club Show
Knight's of Columbus
1155 S. Congress Ave
West Palm Beach, Florida
561-964-8180
swicer@comcast.net
36 tables, Admission free
Sunday, July 27
Greenhills Classic
American Legion Post 530
11100 Winton Rd
Cincinnati, Ohio
937-376-2807
numismaniaofohio@woh.rr.com
55 (50) tables, Admission free
Sunday, July 27
MI-Ohio Coin Show
VFW Hall
27345 Schoolcraft
Redford Twp, Michigan
248-719-5650 or Don Reid 313-737-9141
mstorey@twmi.rr.com
70 tables, Admission free
Sunday, July 27
Tri-State Monthly Coin & Stamp Show
Holiday Inn
Exit 339 of PA Tpke., 308 Expwy
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
305-852-7678
55 (35) tables, Admission free
Sunday, July 27
Coin & Stamp Show
Catapano Engineering Hall
585 Rte. 110, Broadhollow Rd
Melville, New York
516-557-7096 cell
gsstamps@hotmail.com
Admission free
Sunday, July 27
Central IL Numismatic Assoc. Summer Coin Show
Northfield Center
3210 Northfield Dr
Springfield, Illinois
217-793-2178
ssoltys@gmail.com
72 tables, Admission $1.00
Sunday, July 27
2nd Annual D&G Coin Show
VFW Post 6196
Luzerne Rd. & Richardson St
Queensbury, New York
518-623-3592
dghoc@msn.com
20 (18) tables, Admission free
UK Events
Saturday, July 26
Coins and Stamps
Phoenix Fairs
The America Hall
De La Rue Way
Pinhoe, Exerter
10am to 4pm
Sunday, July 27
Coins Medals and Banknotes
Leeds Fair
Cedar Court Hotel
Denby Dale Rd
Wakefield
9.30am to 2.30pm
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Paper Money To be Burned in Taipei, C hina
Did you know that it's a custom to burn paper money in Taipei? Incredible stuff, but there you go this is the right spirit to have, their attachment to the much sort after paper is non existent it seems. There is a credit crunch around us here so we in the West wouldn't dare increase our hardship by burning the little we have.
But there is another consideration that has been forgotten and that is, environmental safety, burning the notes would create a heavy mass of pollution. The government is therefore doing a lot to ensure that people are aware that this practice though grounded in their culture has little or no place in todays world as consideration has to be given to keeping the environment from pollution.
Will you be burning anything this summer?
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Banknote and Paper Money News: The Direct Express Debit Card
Finally a solution is in sight for the 4 million Americans without bank accounts who have to depend on paper cheques to access their monthly social benefits. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has found a solution and a new Direct Express debit card for social security payments has now been launched in 10 states, this debit card will be available to all shortly as the plan is to roll it out over the nation during the summer months.
This is a great step forward as you can imagine how frustrating it is waiting on your social security cheques via the post. Delays in arrival cause so much stress for many families, not to talk about the problem of cashing the cheques through unscrupulous money services who eat up some of the much needed money via commission for the service rendered.
4 million people are now being given an opportunity to start getting their paper money affairs in order and I think this is a great move forward and will help to revive the economy some. Read more about this at The Direct Express Debit Card Launch.
