Hi..I am basically a collector and start to focus on Specimen notes. We can say that most specimen as a solid number notes with no value. Amoung them, I like to know more facts about Burma Specimen notes, because I do not have source to learn in more detail. To my knowledge, Burma does not have too much quantity in Specimen notes. Anyone can explain the following~ (1) Why the Burma Specimen notes just occur a few quantity in the market? (2) For Myanmar Banknote, has anyone seen the Specimen notes in new edition? eg : 500 Kyats, 1000 Kyats in denomination (3) How the dealers got Burma Specimen notes? From Myanmar local market? or directly from Myanmar officials? (4) Any source for Burma Specimen notes to get or buy? (5) If anyone has some interesting facts or informations about Burma Banknotes, please do not hesitate to leave your opinions.
well, i dont know the EXACT reasons to alot of your questions, but i think for the quantity of specimen notes printed.. you have to look at the reasons for them being printed. Are they printed soley for a collector base.. if so, then a limited release must mean a limited collector base in that country. As for where to buy them ... that easy .. they are everywhere Ok, maybe not exactly everywhere, but if they make them, they can be found for sale! You just have to know where to look. DFor starters i would check all the major auction sites, and yes, that included Ebay. Secondly, a favorite search tool for me is to simply search google like this and check out a few of the sites listed. The second one down appears to have one for sale although i didnt click to find the price. good luck!! and PLEASE post pictures if you get any we love seeing notes here
Hi...Thank you for your replied and I will appereciate your suggestions. As a matter of fact, I have a piece of Burma Specimen note. Below is the picture and please have a look! I still have other question for this notes. Normally, most specimen notes have printed quantity and which is called "Specimen Number". However, You can find that this note does not have "Specimen Number". I mean Specimen No.1, Specimen No.2, .....etc. And not the serial number IC0000000. If anyone knows why, please replied my question. Thank you~
my appologies!!! I do not know enough about the currency issuances from Burma to help you further. Most countires will print and issue specimen notes how they see fit, so i do not think there is a uniform way that all countires adhere to. As to what this note is or is not missing, i cannot say! sorry
I personally do not keep Specimen notes. I do have them at one time which I have 3 sets of Singapore Orchid and Bird Series Specimen. I have sold them away a few years ago after keeping for more than 20 years. I am a world solid number collector. I will attempt to answer some of your question based on what I have seen so far in my years of keeping banknotes. There are many different types of specimen notes printed for different purpose. Within a certain country, there are many types. It can come in different numbering system. The early European specimen come with ladder serial number. There are specimen notes which are specially printed for distribution to various countries in the world. The purpose is to give these countries a reference on the identification. These usually are printed in running numbers. It could also be A000000 but using do not have any specific solid numbers such as 555555 etc. There is another type is printer's specimen. These examples are usually kept by printer themselves for references. For Thomas De La Rue, they usually have a red oval chop over the specimen notes. These are usually more valuable and higher in demand collected by collectors. Sometimes specimen notes can be a trial colour print. I have seen a printer specimen as in a set of Straits Settlements notes. They are thus beautiful and expensive and may exist as a single or a few samples. They are usually well-kept by printers but may later be brought out by the latter children to sell them away as rare collectors' items. The problem with specimen notes is there is no accountability ( except for printer's specmen ). It is not like the regular circulated banknotes where we are able to identify and account for the serial number runs. For example, there are only 3 known super solid number banknotes in a series for a Singapore $5 Ship Series banknote. The prefixes are A/5, A/55 and B/5. In this way, we are able to keep track of the number of these solid number. If a B/55 appears, it is possible that it is a counterfeit as there are no such run of prefix. Specimen lack the accountability unless they are specially issued by the country currency issuing board or central bank for collector purpose. I have seen a lot of Cuba specimen notes for sales in ebay. The value of these notes are pretty worthless. Hope this view helps you to understand specimen notes better now.
Hi...See323, Thank you for your replied and your informations helps me a lot. But in my point of view, the 1948 Burma Specimen just printed "Specimen no." and did not print the actual printed number may has a reason. One of the possibilities is they might had printed a lot of specimen notes at that time. But they did not know the actual number of Branches. So, the place after Specimen no. should be for hand writing (number) by the banker. By the way, I would like to know about the Singapore solid number with big denominations. I know Singapore notes are very interesting and expensive for collectors. Especially for bird $10000, I am curious that any colloector wons the first number A/1 000001? Because I once saw a piece of A/1 111111 from website. Thank you so much
Specimen Notes - Yes, I have seen those specimen notes being hand label after the "Specimen no.". Sometimes, there are also some writing on the edges of these specimen notes. I believe they keep track of the specimen notes. Large Denomination - Singapore is pretty well-known for those large denomination banknote among collectors since most of the current currencies seldom have such large face value except for Brunei currency. Brunei currency is at par with Singapore currency. They are used interchangible between the two countries. I have personally seen the Singapore bird series A/1 111111 in fresh. This note was earlier taken out by banker to a dealer/collector. It was with a dealer friend and I was there. It was sold for a small premium to a collector. It was kept since then. There is only one solid number for this Singaproe Bird Series $10,000. The website you saw belong to the dealer/collector. His father was the one who purchase it more than 20 years ago. Unfortunately, last year, this young dealer/collector passed away due to a car accident. There is a sizeable Singapore collection in this collector family. The rarest Singapore solids are kept mostly by Singaporeans. They have a high resales value are reserved among those rich serious collectors. Most of these rarest solids never appear again in the market. They are kept in private collection. You can view my world solid number 555555 collection at : http://www.banknotebank.com/user_view.aspx?id=see323 Enjoy specialising and collecting.
