i bought this last week off ebay. i saw a picture of this note on another forum and i knew my wife would love to have it. it has lions on it and she loves lions. i just got the note today and it is CHCU, i dont see a flaw on this note anywhere. it is perfect. its not our first world note but it is our first world note that is brand spanking new uncirculated. im sure it wont be the last. Congo has a couple other notes with elephants and rhinos that i want to get. but here's the note. the scans dont do it justice, it has a watermark to the right when looking at the front of the note and a couple other security features i wasnt expecting. it even has fibers in the note like our notes.
cool looking note. The condition is a nice surprise. One thing i have found when purchasing world notes, even Choice examples - :loud: MOST of them have :loud: STAPLE HOLES in them near the end!!! someone :loud: PLEASE tell me... WHY do folks around the world do that? Dont they know it :loud: RUINS the notes???:headbang:
i dont know where you get your notes from but i got this off ebay from a seller who sells a lot of world notes. he seems to specialize in world notes. its the only one i bought off him but i was very happy with it.
Nice notes!!! I spent 22 years in West/Central Africa. Congo was not on my lists, but I ended up visiting there.... Long story short ---> I was supposed to go to Cameroon. Well, the plane left Dakar, Senegal at 11 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Cameroon at about 3 a.m. after a few stops in various West African capitals. Well, I was fast asleep whenever they landed in Cameroon and the next thing I know, they say they're landing in Brazzaville and they will not be continuing to Bangui (Central African Republic) because of "civil unrest". I quickly grab the nearest stewardess and explain that I should have gotten off the plane in Cameroon. She just laughs and says I can just hang out with them. This was with the airline company Air Afrique - they no longer exist. But anyways, I spent three days in Brazzaville, Congo free of charge - the hotel, food and incidentals were all covered. Brazzaville is cool in that it is just across the river from Kinshasa - the capital of the "other" Congo. They can literally throw stones at each other.
Not 'all' world notes i buy have the staple holes, but alot of them do. I never really cared as most of the ones i buy have been in lots of 'circulated' notes. But i have gotten some in UNC condition, and some still had them staple holes. I was just curious if anyone knew why?!
In some countries, the freshly printed banknotes are actually packaged by stapling every 100 notes together into a bundle, rather than putting a paper strap around them as in the US. So these countries' notes just plain don't exist without staple holes (unless some were sold as special collector products). Sometimes you'll see a note graded as "CU-USH", for "usual staple holes".
thanks Numbers. I have seen the disclaimer of "Usual Staple Holes' but just thought they meant they just saw it all the time or something. It just seems so sad countries ruin perfectly good notes like that. BUT not every country can be like the US so ...
So, somethign i thought of today ... do those staple holes that some foreign countries have in their currency .. does it affect the grade? For grading US currency, a note with staple holes in it, regardless of condition, usually, will bust the note down to good or very good. Obviously, a foreign note without staple holes will bring a higher price then a note with the staple holes. But how does one go about determining a value on world notes, if most of the notes enter circulation with the stapleholes.
India and Pakistan are the two countries who used staples to bundle their notes. For these countries, the staple holes do not necessarily effect the grade but they are taken into account for price. As someone else indicated, you will often see a note graded AU - usual staple holes. Often, staple holes are the rule and notes without them are the exception. Notes without staple holes will bring a premium over those without. A nice EF note without staple holes will often get a better price than an AU with staple holes.
