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Money Museum, gold coins (Malaysia)
Card mailed in 1991, shows Bank Negara’s commemorative coins. Grade: 1
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Money Museum, World Wildlife coins (Malaysia)
Commemorative coins for the World Wildlife Conservation Fund, issued in Malaysia in 1976. Card was mailed in 1991, with stamp but no clear postmark. Grade: 2
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Money Museum, Terengganu coin tree (Malaysia)
Captioned as “Coin tree of sun-ray shape from Terengganu, 18th Century,” now in Bank Negara’s Money Museum. Card mailed in 1991, Selangor stamp and partial postmark, clean. Grade: 2
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30th Anniversary coins (Malaysia)
Commemorative coins of the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Malaysia. The coins are in the national bank’s Money Museum. Card mailed in 1991 but the postmark missed the stamp totally. Grade: 3
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Savings and Deposit Bank (Bucharest)
Kruger card 1134/6 was issued by the Romanian National Tourism Office during the Cold War era, and mailed in Bucharest in 1969 with two stamps and most of a postmark. Card has serrated edges, and has a little bit of postal creasing. Grade: 3 -
Citibank (Malaysia)
Solicitation mailed in 1986 with pre-printed message, real stamp, and illegible postmark. Grade: 2
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Bank Negara, Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia)
Bank Negara is Malaysia’s national bank. The three cards available are all in identical condition, written for mailing but not stamped or postmarked. S.W. Singapore KK8202. Grades: 4
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Standard Chartered Bank Visa Card (Hong Kong)
Very large (5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″) advertising card mailed with pre-printed postage. We have two cards with the identical message, but one is all in English and one is all in Chinese. Take your pick, or take both. Grades: 1
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Belarusbank on Suvorov Street, Kobrin (Belarus)
This 4″ x 7-7/8″ card was mailed in 2011 with four different stamps. There’s more to it than the Bank, but for that you need to read the captions. Grade: 1
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Society for Savings, Cleveland (Ohio)
We’ve not run across the correct term for this type of card yet, but it has glitter pasted on each level between floors, and on the roof. The card was mailed in 1906; stamp and full postmark are there. Grade: 2
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Black Hawk National Bank, Waterloo (Iowa, USA)
Unused B&W card, unattributed. Grade: 3
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Security Savings Bank, Fifth Street Lobby (Los Angeles, USA)
Unused M. Rieder card 78/4 with an ink stain in the postage area. Grade: 3
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First National Bank Building, San Francisco
Unused Edw. H. Mitchell card 1916 from way back in the day. The building was at Post, Montgomery, and Market Streets. Grade: 1
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HSBC, Hopewell Centre (Hong Kong)
Large (6″ x 8-1/4″) advertising card with pre-printed Hongkong Post bulk mail cachet in Chinese. The World’s Local Bank just gets more and more local. Grade: 1
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The Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)
Currently one of the world’s 20 tallest buildings. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Yogyakarta, Post Office and bank (Indonesia)
Unused 4-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ card. Grade: 1
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American National Bank Building, Pensacola, Florida
Quite a long message pencilled in on the reverse of this card, mailed in 1942 with stamp and fully readable postmark. The message is beginning to fade. There is some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Kasikorn Bank – Bangkok stock market (Thailand)
An unusual and unused card, dated 2007, all right on the front but quite dirty/dusty on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Bank of Canada Currency Museum, Ottawa
Unused, larger (4-3/4″ x 6-1/2″) card issued by the bank in 2011. The photo, however, was apparently taken in 1950. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Bucharest, The National Savings House (Romania)
And what better symbol of greetings could there be? This 4-5/8″ x 7-1/4″ card was mailed in 2012 with stamp, partial postmark, and address label affixed. Grade: 3
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The National Bank of Pittsburg, October 2010 calendar (Kansas, USA)
Lovely old calendar postcard, mailed in (surprise!) 1910, with postmark and abraded stamp. Grade: 4
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Eugene Loan & Savings Bank, October 1910 calendar (Oregon)
Mailed in 1910 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Citizens National Bank, Brazil (Indiana, USA), June 1910 calendar
Undivided back, unused card. Interesting that the illustration shows a $2 bill! Grade: 3
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Manatee National Bank, Bradenton (Florida)
The bank under this name is long gone, and Google is surprisingly opaque about what it became. We suppose this artwork of “Hernando De Soto’s 1539 ‘discovery’ of Bradenton” is still somewhere. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and the Customs House (PR China)
An outsized card, 4-1/4″ x 8-1/8″, mailed from Shanghai in 2013 with three large and different stamps, two full postmarks, and two red Par Avion and other chops. Classic contemporary Shanghai! Grade: 1
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Belarusbank, Minsk (Belarus)
If you collect bank postcards, you should want this: measuring 4″ x 7-7/8″, mailed in 2013 with large stamp and clear postmark. It survived well being mailed! Grade: 1
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08/15 Bank (Germany)
Mailed from Germany in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and bilingual (Chinese and English) airmail chop. Grade: 2
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San Francisco, Cable Car turntable near Bank of America
Nice, unused card. When we were there, we saw more cars, more people, and a lot of rain. Grade: 1
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Madrid, Banco de Espana (Spain)
This is really an old, unused B&W postcard but is printed on paper so flimsy that it is impossible to imagine it could have been mailed and arrived safely. If you buy it, we will be certain to pack it well. Grade: 2
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Hibernia Savings Bank, July 1910 Calendar (Portland, Oregon, USA)
The text is fun to read, especially about being open on Saturday Evenings. This card has an address typed on the undivided back, and was mailed, though there’s no stamp or postmark because it was the Bulk Mail of its time. Grade: 1
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Beijing United Bank Ltd. (PR China)
This seems to be an unused lottery card from 1997. It’s been heavily handled over the years but is unused. It has pre-printed postage with a kind of cancellation mark over that. In any case it was issued by the Government and not by the bank–which might have been a State bank anyway, so no difference there. Grade: 2
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St. Augustine, Plaza de la Constitucion and Exchange Bank (Florida, USA)
Unused Dukane card #D00307, dated 1969. Aging slightly, but Grade: 1
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Chennai, British Time Building (India)
Mailed in 2014 with four stamps and blurry postmark. This building houses the Chennai office of The State Bank of India. Grade: 1
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Aim High
Awfully busy on the reverse, with extra rubber-stamp chops and writing in addition to the printed text. Three stamps, and some postal abrasion. Grade: 4
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Banco Cafetero, Medellin (Colombia)
Not postally used, but with a long message from several years ago taking up the entire reverse. Grade: 4
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Central Bank of Nicaragua, Managua
Unused Mike Roberts card C18353, Spanish and English captions telling us this is “actually the tallest building in Central America”. (That honour now goes to Trump Ocean Club in Panama.) Staining and handling on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Montevideo, Frente del Banco Hipotecario (Uruguay)
Old, unused, extremely heavily aged B&W Ediciones Impresora card No. 655. The aging is confined to the reverse of the card. Grade: 3
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Brasilia – DF – Building Seat of the Central Bank of Brasil
Unmailed card with a name written into the bottom of the message area. Grade: 3
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Fubon Bank (Hong Kong)
All sorts of banking details, but in Chinese only, on the back of this 5-7/8″ x 8-1/4″ ad card mailed to local residents in 2016 using Hongkong Post’s pre-printed Circular Service postage (also in Chinese). Grade: 1
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Lourenço Marques, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, mural (Mozambique)
In what is now Maputo, this mural by Francisco Relogio, The unused postcard is significantly aged but otherwise unmarked. Grade: 3