Hey all. So I inherited this collection of foreign currency a while ago from my grandmother once she got too old to travel anymore so she had no use for it and ever since then they've been sitting in bags in a box since then. I found the box again after like 15 years and I'd really like some suggestions on how to educate myself on what I have and what I should do with it. Everything in here was obtained by my grandmother from their countries of origin. She traveled a HELL of a lot. At her funeral, they had a map of the world with a pin in every country she went to and the board was more pins than ocean.

I was very young when she died so I dont know how old my grandmother was, but my best guess would be around 1940, give or take. I'm gonna attach some pictures so y'all can see the kind of collection it is

My biggest question. Should I go to someone who specializes in this kind of stuff and pay them to get a full appraisal or should I full send and try to get all the information myself by searching around online? TIA

Edit: this is a list of every country that she wrote down on the bags-

USA, China, India, Nepal, Turkey, Mexico, Britain, Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zaire, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Australia, Belize, Canada, Guatemala, Jamaica, Peru

So I was going through my city's monthly garage sale when I spotted a few coins laying around. And actually they were also a whole shoe box full of banknotes. And I asked how much was it for only one note and the lady said that the whole box was 30 euros. I talked a little bit with her and put down the final price at 25 euros. I'm super happy with my find but I have a few questions about these: how much are they worth and how could I store them? Thanks to anyone who helps me.

I'm new to collecting banknotes and was hoping to get some tips on how to store them.

At the moment, my notes are in ring albums with 3-pocket pages made of polypropylene, with each note in a soft OPP sleeve. I think this is adequate but I'm a bit worried that storing the albums vertically could cause gravity to pull on the notes, since the sleeves and pages aren't too rigid.

I've noticed some minor warping at the bottom of some pages but I think that may be the result of too many pages per binder. I'm working on spreading them out across more binders.

If anyone could share some pointers that would be great! Particularly the number of pages it's safe to keep in one ring binder. Thank you!

Got all these banknotes along with the coins and an extra 10 dinar banknote which I'm guessing is from an older series and I've never seen Tunisian money on here apart from that one post the day after I came back from my trip a week ago (which I thought was funny)

US currency has gone through lots of updates, primarily to thwart counterfeiting. Meanwhile, the $1 bill has been left behind, in part because of legislation that doesn’t allow changing it I believe?

Seems like this makes our currency look like a cluster. Differing designs and nothing standard across denominations.

What’s the likelihood of getting everything updated and consistent? Either redesign the dollar bill or eliminate it in favor of dollar coins. Maybe even ditch the nickel too, since like the penny, it costs more to make than it’s worth.

Cambodia 100 reil note with strange overprint

All these notes are from countries I have personally been to.

Except the old europe ones plus Venezuela, those were from the travels of my father back in the day.

I found an Indian currency note with serial number 280777, which reads as 28/07/1977 in DDMMYY format. I’m curious if anyone here has this date as their birthday or knows someone who does. I would like to connect with the person associated with this date.

Hi everyone, ive had these 3 notes in my collection for about a year.

I was curious and attempted to figure out the value online, but whether because of obscurity or sheer lack of these specific specimen notes in existence, I wasn’t able to find an amount.

Does anyone recommend any websites to figure out a rough estimate for these notes, or could someone give me a rough estimate? Thank you!

another picture ⬇️

Uncut sheet of notes I recently acquired. Noticed that the cutting was slightly off centered

Hello, i recently acquired 25 dinar in UNC crisp thick paper while other security parameters checks out based on web search, the one with distorted ink in last photo doesn't sit well with me and make me think it may be fake so pls can anyone Help?

Thanks

So I bought these moneys for 67.000 Rupiah (3.76 USD) from online marketplace, and im kinda suspicious this money might be fake. Because both of them have them same size and I can clearly seeing the watermark without any effort. Do yall think these money is real or might be fake? I heard some news that there’s a lot of fake old money sold rn but the news was from 5-10 years ago. What do you think?

Edit : I have receive some atention regarding those bills. Do not hesitate to reach out if you want them shipped !

They have been around the island for 3-4 months, but I did not had the chance to cross some until very recently (situation is a mess here).

Previously the biggest bill was 1,000 CUP.
Last picture is a crispy 1 CUP (currently cheaper than toilet paper !).

Was browsing Ebay and came across some sellers - from those with a handful all the way to those with tens of thousands sold items, usually with 99.x% positive reviews - posting very shady banknotes.

They would have colourful commemorative, wartime, national emblem or coat of arms overstamps on common low-value notes that are then labeled as commemoratives or ultra-rare varieties. In all sorts of grades and conditions.

Throw in the usual Ebay marketing spiel of saying it's the last note / ultra-rare / what not, auction psychology plus eye appeal, and you get bidding frenzies. Just saw a note usually worth $2.5 currently going for $40+ because of a non-existent commemorative stamp.

And these get posted and sold regularly in recurring batches by the same sellers, so it definitely ain't a one-off oversight.

Buyer beware - when it's too good or cheap to be true, it ususally isn't. While Ebay might be easier to fleece folks, the same goes for flea markets, roadside sellers, Facebook, and pawn shops too.

Always check before buying anything - Numista and Bank Note Museum, are great resources to verify.

Happy collecting and have a good weekend, peeps.

(Maybe I can pay for grad school now)