Coins/Money – Global Postcard Sales

Total: 39 postcards

Money Museum, gold coins (Malaysia)
Card mailed in 1991, shows Bank Negara’s commemorative coins. Grade: 1

Code: 38100002
Price: $4.00
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

Code: 38100003
Price: $4.00
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

Code: 38100004
Price: $4.00

Money Museum, 30th Anniversary coins

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

Code: 38100005

Price: $3.00

Islamic Civilization Expo, gold dinar coins (Malaysia)
Card mailed in 1991, has a perforated edge from having been separated from a set. Stamp and part of a postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 38100006
Price: $1.50
Gold dinar coins from Umayyad Dynasty
From the 1990 World of Islamic Civilization Expo in Malaysia, this mailed card exceptionally has its extra stub still attached. Stamp is there but postmark is very faint. There’s some ink smudging on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 38100007
Price: $3.50
Money Museum, Malaysia coins from Japan (Malaysia)
Card was mailed in 1991 and has the stamp but postmark is mostly missing. Grade: 2

Code: 38100008
Price: $1.50
Money Museum, Dutch East India 3 Guilder (Malaysia)
Actually this is “A Dutch East India Company 3 Guilder silver coin popularly called ‘Silver Rider’, 1738.” The Money Museum is in Kuala Lumpur; the card was mailed from Kuantan in 1991 with a commemorative wasp stamp and full postmark. Lots of postmark transfer on the front, as you can also see. Grade: 4

Code: 38100009
Price: $3.50
Perth Mint (Australia)

This card was mailed from Malaysia in 1997 but was written in Singapore. Malaysian stamp is there, but the postmark is not legible. Some creasing in corners, and denting. Grade: 3

Code: 38100010
Price: $4.00
Keep my money for me
Three of these unused Laff Gram cards 81-D are available, each with slight water stains along the bottom edge. Grades: 3

Code: 38100011
Price: $0.50
Singapore Currency
Unused 3-3/4″ x 8-1/4″ card. Grade: 1

Code: 38100012
Price: $5.00
Bankthai – coins and currency (Thailand)
An unusual and unused card, dated 2007, an abrasion on the front and quite dirty/dusty on the reverse. We believe this bank went out of business or was bought out during the 2008 crisis. Grade: 5

Code: 38100013
Price: $3.00
Revolutionary-era currency (Taiwan)
Unused card, fully explained (in Chinese) on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 38100014
Price: $5.00
herinnering (Netherlands)
Lighthouse on currency on a card mailed in 2012 with barely cancelled stamp. Grade: 2

Code: 38100015
Price: $2.00
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

Code: 38100016
Price: $3.00
Ottawa, Royal Canadian Mint, Gold Maple Leaf coins
Not just coins, of course, but lots of other gold too. Unused 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ card, barely bumped so we still assign it Grade: 1

Code: 38100017
Price: $3.00
Ottawa, Bank of Canada Currency Museum Poster for 1st Victory Loan Campaign
Unused 4-3/4″ x 6-1/2″ card from 2011. Grade: 1

Code: 38100018
Price: $4.00
New U.S. Mint, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
Mailed in 1905 with stamp and clear postmark. A little postmark ink transfer on the front, but in great condition considering the age. Grade: 1

Code: 38100019
Price: $4.00
The Silver Queen Hotel, Wedding Chapel and Casino, Virginia City (Nevada)
Quoting the caption, “The Silver Queen’s dress contains 3,261 silver dollars, a large percentage of them undoubtedly contain silver that was mined thousands of feet beneath the building.” There’s more. Unused “Virginia City Series” card 0039. Grade: 1

Code: 38100020
Price: $2.00
Roman Britain (Claudius) (Maximum Card)
Issued by Royal Mail in 1993 and mailed in 2014, with four stamps on the back, and postmark, and blue Air Mail label affixed. Orange postal barcoding on the reverse only. Grade: 1

Code: 38100021
Price: $5.00
The Big Nickel, Sudbury (Ontario, Canada)
Mailed in 2014 with three different stamps, and postmark. Clear tape covers the address and another reference number. Grade: 4

Code: 38100022
Price: $1.00
Potosi, The Royal Mint, Main entrance (Bolivia)
Unused Belleza Boliviana card No. 89, captioned in Spanish and English. Grade: 1

Code: 38100023
Price: $2.00
Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Washington, DC)
Unused, very old B.S. Reynolds Co. card Z116. Age spots on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 38100024
Price: $3.00
Bogota, Old Mint, and Catedral Primada de Colombia
Unused hola! card 208 T 3813, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 38100025
Price: $2.00
Die Euro-Munzen (Germany)
We’ve not seen many Euro postcards, but here’s one for you. Issued by the German Finance Ministry, this unused card has a very long caption on the back, explaining much — in German only. Creased along upper right front corner. Grade: 3

Code: 38100027
Price: $2.00
William the Conqueror, Silver Penny
Unused card from London’s National Portrait Gallery, giving more information about William than about the coin itself, which is tentatively dated as 1068. Grade: 2

Code: 38100028
Price: $1.00
United States Currency
Like in most other countries, designs change from time to time, so here’s your historical relic from a few years back. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38100029
Price: $2.00
1804 silver dollar (USA)
Unused, but someone (not us) cut off the top edge. So this would only be good if you need the photo. Grade: 5

Code: 38100030
Price: $0.10
Dixie Gun Works, Union City (Tennessee, USA)
Interestingly, all those items on the front are identified in the caption on the back, including a $3 gold piece; Type II 1855 gold dollar; and 1908 $20 gold certificate. Unused Curteich-Color card 2EK-327. Minor, almost invisible, abrasion on the back. Grade: 2

Code: 38100031
Price: $1.00
National Postcard Week, Hillsboro (Illinois, USA)
If you’re looking for that missing National Postcard Week card for your collection, here it is! The coin shown is the USA Sacagawea dollar. Unused, from 2000. Grade: 1

Code: 38100032
Price: $0.50
Aukro (Czech Republic)
As far as we can tell, from far away, Aukro seems to be the eBay of the Czech Republic. Then Google translates the legend on the front of the card as “We carry out your collectibles”. Close enough. The card was mailed in 2020 from Prague, with stamp and blue Prioritaire label. Grade: 1

Code: 38100033
Price: $2.00
Sveriges Riksbank – Tio Kroner (Sweden)
For reasons you might guess, we were tempted to list this card at US$0.95, but, sorry, it’s worth more than that. The (Swedish) caption on the back — if it were in English — would read, roughly: “in those days, a ten was still worth ten” and on the front it tells you which of those items you could get for 10 kronor in 1926. Well, that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 38100035
Price: $4.00
East Stroudsburg, Monroe County National Bank (Pennsylvania, USA)
Even the writer of this card, mailed in 1917 (with stamp and partial postmark), acknowledged it’s an ad card, but what a good ad card it is: the somewhat generic American Express Travelers’ Cheques promotion then mailed out by individual banks (including long-gone Monroe County National) or from — as in this case — friend to friend. As a side note, while Travelers’ Cheques must still exist, around here in Asia they are met with horror by merchants and banks. Don’t even think of trying to use one. Grade: 1

Code: 38100036
Price: $8.00
Om jag hade pengar … (Sweden)
… which in Swedish means “If I had money …” but it won’t take much to buy this unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 38100037
Price: $2.00
La Scultura (Italy?)
We tried to research this unused card but just gave up. Language of course gives us a hint, and it’s clearly about sculptures on stamps, coins, and currency. There was an exhibition. That’s as far as we got. Grade: 1

Code: 38100038
Price: $2.00
Sveriges Riksbank – Fem Kroner (Sweden)
Whatever we said about the earlier ten kroner card like this one, the same would basically be true here for 1940. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 38100039
Price: $4.00
American Bankers Association Cheques (USA)
Google leaves us a bit confused about whether these were the forerunner to American Express cheques or not, but the very old postcard emphasises these A.B.A. cheques’ global reach. The card is aged and unused, and had been in an album for many years as the corners are less faded. But for collectors of financial postcards, here you go. Grade: 2

Code: 38100040
Price: $12.00
Denver Mint (Colorado, USA)
Unused card. Serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 38100041
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Old Mint Museum, Silver Morgan Dollar Display (California)
Unused, official card dated 2010 from the United States Mint, most likely produced by the Museum itself. Grade: 1

Code: 38100042
Price: $1.00

Total: 39 postcards