Greetings!
Welcome
To My WPM Page !
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Only
in the last several years has paper money collecting as a hobby become more popular.
About
ten years ago (1995) I decided to restart collecting paper money, even I
was not able to find my old collection, only a few items were kept
safely in some old albums, but that banknotes were my first items
collected since 1975. I can remember when I got my first foreign paper
money, that was a 5 mark (Germany D.R.) a small currency, I have paid 3
times its face value, but I was happy to have it. After a few months
I've got a 5
soles de oro currency from a
Peruvian friend sent by letter, his name is Javier Corros De Campos, WOW
I remember his name but that was 30 years ago!! That was a really great
item, a green banknote with beautiful images on it. That was my first
swap.
I
remember, when I went first time to Budapest and I collected a lot of
coins from a store's fountain in a shop. I was 10 years old, and
very happy to have that coins.
One
day when I went to the church the priest cleaned up the attic and there
were many thousands of zinc and copper coins for free. I had run home to get
a frail (basket) and I had run back to get some coins. Of course I was
not able to carry the frail with 10 kilos of coins, but one of my mate
helps me to carry it. One basket for him and one for me... we have
worked on it hard until sunset and each of us had 3 frails of coins at
home. I was 10 years old.
John Horvath
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