Are Australia bank notes hard to find .Iwent to 3 coins store in my home town and don't have any do anybody know where you can buy some beside ebay thank you
that would be a good thing to know! Maybe an Australian member would be willing to be a source for some otherwise, there is always Ebay
1 AUS$ = 94 UScents. Don't that beat all. Easy to work out then...you'll know when you're paying too much. Also...if I wanted a note from any country over here....I'd just go to the bank. If they don't have them in stock they will order them in and i'd only have to pay the exchange rate. Bureau de change in the USA?
In the US, you 'can' get them from banks, but only at border banks or banks within large international airports. Plus, you have to buy a certain amount or IN certain intervals, and there is a fee - and its not all that close to the exchange rate. My mohter-in-law is a bank manager, and i asked her about it a long time ago. i dont remember how much i had to order or what fees i had to pay, but it wasnt worth it on my small budget. Plus, i want a variety, not 50 notes all the same denomination and/or design. In the end, its been easier for me to get notes from fellow cointalkers from foreign countries! I am able to obtain notes from their locale, and they get something from over here that they want - alot of times i just pay them via paypal. But its always close to the exchange rate and i pay shipping.
Not in Australia they're not, of course... but assume you mean in the US. Short of actually traveling to Australia (assuming you're going there anyway and not going there just to acquire the notes lol), eBay is probably the easiest place to get some, especially if you're discerning enough to insist upon uncirculated condition. Besides eBay and Australia... may want to check major airports with currency exchanges, or other internet businesses that specialize in world banknotes. In my experience most coin stores in the US have very few non-US notes if any. Alternatively, if you know anybody who lives in or near Australia may want to see if they're willing to sell or trade you some notes.
The coin dealer in my area has a box of obsolete world notes that he sells for a buck apiece and if you buy ten notes he'll give them to you for 80 cents each. I was looking through the notes he had and saw 2 Australian bank notes. I picked up some of the more interesting notes he had but left the Australian notes. I new I should have picked them up. Lou
I really need to visit your dealer i pay alot more then a buck a piece for most of my notes. I am basicaly not going to buy anymore off online auctions. 99% of the time they are lots of the same obsolete countries. Its tough to get notes that arent from places like belarus, transnistria, croatia and indonesia (among several others). Most of any lots will contain a large assortment of those countires where the notes are obsolete and worthless. and then they want to charge several bucks a piece when the exchange rate is 10,000 to 1 or something similar.
Daggarjon, this dealer that I am talking about has no interest in world notes so he sell them cheap. The notes are not worth allot but they are interesting like pre WW II Japanese notes, Philippines WW II government notes ( not Japanese), Russian notgel (maybe, still researching this one) and some other odds and ends that caught my eye. Lou
