Please Don't do this; Making Funny faces using banknote

Just want to get out a bit from my normal posting article. I received this pictures from a forwarding e-mail by some friend. This guy that look like from a same company is mocking or using banknote to make funny faces. Some people may found this kind of act is funny but some people will feel offended by this picture. This people may not know that their kind of act is an offence in some country. As what I can see, they are using Malaysia Ringgit, Saudi Arabia Riyal and Italy Lire.

Every country has legal restrictions on the reproduction of banknote images. The counterfeiting of currency is a crime, and while restrictions vary from country to country, in some countries, any reproduction of banknote images – even for artistic or advertising uses – is strictly forbidden. Even in countries that allow some limited use of banknote images, there are specific rules and requirements.

Some country don't allow their national symbol, President, King. Queen or Prime Minister to be shown in distort images or in a manner that consider offensive or against public interest. Some other country don't even allowed their banknote to be produced in any form. I guess this guy is from Malaysia since most of the banknote used in this images are using Malaysia Ringgit. If any of your friends in in this picture, please advise them not to do this ever again. Please tell them that their are making jokes and fun to Malaysia 1st Yang Dipertuan Agong Picture.

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Royal Mint produces Olympic coin for collector

I just found another story about collector coin for 2012 London Olympic Games by Royal Mint, London. Olympic coin and banknote are one of the good investment since Olympic only been held in 4 years time. It is also hard to get hold of this coin since not many of this Olympic coin been produced each time. I try to find if there is any Olympic coin collector webpage but the best I can found is this official website of the Olympic movement. This official website give some information about all the memorabilia and Olympism. Below is the original story and picture of the coin from times online.

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Llantrisant: The Royal Mint has produced a collector’s coin to count down to the 2012 Olympic Games. The gold and silver versions are the first UK £5 coins to feature the Olympic rings and logo in full colour, said the mint, based in Llantrisant, South Wales.

The coin has images of swimmers racing to the finishing line, while the border design represents the Olympic Stadium in East London as seen from above.

A new coin in gold, silver and cupronickel will be launched each year until the Games. There are 4,000 gold proof coins costing £1,295 each, 30,000 silver proof coins at £54.95 each and 500,000 cupronickel coins at £9.95 each.

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If any of you knew any website from personal collector of Olympic coin please do give me the link in comment or via e-mail. I can see from the official website of the Olympic movement, Olympic coin started with 1951 Helsinki Olympic coin. The design of the Helsinki Olympic coin is simple but has a big mark in history of Olympic collectibles history. With small mintage for everyone in this world, it price will surely skyrocket everytime Olympic is coming.

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Royal Mint London 2012 Olympic 50 pence design Competition.

Royal Mint of United Kingdom is organizing a 50 pence design competition. The last date for submitting Your design is on 24 april 2009. The competition is open to the general public and offers a winner the chance to have their designs made into coins and circulated. Contestants must select one of 27 Olympic and Paralympic sports to represent on their design; they may not include the image of recognizable sportsmen or sportswomen, and they must include the Olympic or Paralympic logo.

You can go to their official website at www.royalmintcompetition.co.uk for detail of the competition. The winner of the this competition will get £1,000 including a solid gold version of the winning coin. The winner is also invited to see how his/her design to be transformed into actual United Kingdom coins at Royal Mint.

For me and rest of this world, this competition is only for United Kingdom (sigh). The portrait of Her Majesty the Queen will be used for the ‘head’ side of the coin, so you will only need to provide a design for the ‘tail’ or ‘reverse’ side. You are free to draw your design in whatever way you wish, whether through a computer programme, in felt tip, pencil or ink. However all designs submitted must be presented on the design template. Below are some of the previous 50 pence design.

You need to register online. After that, they will provided you with the design template. The template includes the mandatory elements of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games logos and the value of the coin (50 PENCE). The last day of the competition is coming near. To all of my friend in United Kingdom who is participating, Good luck.

Update: The winner of this competition will only be announced in November 2009 by Royal Mint UK.

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The Malaysia Numismatic Society 40th Anniversary Auction

I hate to be busy at work. Busy at work make me missed The MNS 40th Anniversary Auction by the Malaysia Numismatic Society which been held on Sunday 29th March 2009 commencing at 10.00 a.m. The coin auction were held at Muzium Negara, Jalan Petalawati, 50480 Kuala Lumpur. Busy at work also mean less time for blogging and writing my posts. Sorry for my blog reader and entrecard dropper for not doing a constant work in here.

The MNS 40th Anniversary Auction has some item that are in my wishlist but don't have time to check for them. Their reserve price can also be a guide for Malaysia error coin. I am still not a member of Malaysia Numismatic Society. I wish they can make their coin auction every month. After that maybe I will be their member. You can read about their membership in here: Malaysia Numismatic Society membership. Entrance fee for ordinary member is RM20.oo and RM40.00 for annual subscription fee. Their coin auction is for member only.

Some of the coin auction item in my wish list are [ Kedah (Silver), ½ Rial (No date) with green patina] with RM100.00 reserve price. [Malaysia 5th series RM500. ZV0687586. Aziz Taha sign.] with RM1000.00 reserve price and GEF condition. [Straits Settlements ¼ cent 1916. Toned on obverse] UNC condition with reserve price RM80.00.

MNS 40th anniversary coin auction also has some Malaysia error coin for sale and their reserve price is a good guide for someone who have an error coin in their possesion or want to buy any error coin from someone.

• Malaysia Planchets or Blanks 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents (Lettered edge) & RM1 (Copper-Zinc). -6 pcs; Reserve price RM250.00.
• Malaysia 1 cent 1984 (Error coin - enlarged size about 10 cents coin). -1pc; Reserve price RM60.00.
• Malaysia 5 cents (Error coin – 1976: 5% off-centre & 1977: 10% off-centre). -2 pcs; Reserve price RM60.00.
• Malaysia 10 cents (Error coin – 1973: 20% depression on top of Parliament & 20% bulging metal on top of denomination) -1 pc; reserve price RM80.00.
• Malaysia 20 cents 1973 (Error coin – minted on a 10 cents planchet). -1 pc; reserve price RM300.00.

There are also some lots for MNS building fund. Is this mean that MNS will have its own building in the future? This sure will be another great place for collector like me to visit next time. To commemorate this event, Malaysia Numismatic Society also producing a highquality limited edition individually serialized medallion. The proceeds from the sale of Malaysia Numismatic Society 40th year anniversary medallion will go into their Society’s Building Fund. The price of the medallion is RM150.00 and only 300 pieces of the medallion will be minted.

I wish I can go back time...

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