More Bolivares and More Turtles
Yesterday I was excitedly working on making new set and note descriptions - planning out the future presentation of the Venezuelan signature set. I thought Iād hit the ādownloadā button and not the āopenā button when I got my file from dropbox and I made a mistake in saving the file, which led to a fair bit of work and tinkering being lost.
This morning I got a very frustrating call from my UK Sales manager that I didnāt like. It basically put me in a very non-productive, unmotivated mood and I was agitated over the loss of that work on the Venezuela set, so I decided to spend time today working on restoring my lost set work. Fortunately it didnāt take long to restore most of what I lost and then I moved on to writing some new stuff. And Iāve been more careful this time to save my work.
Iām really excited to get some of these set up because I was able to order 5 new Soberanos notes in 67 EPQ for a total of $124 - so about $24.80 a note. Basically, the cost of the notes + grading, to say nothing of shipping 3 ways (to PMG, back, and to me). So Iām very happy with that and very excited to get those in and add them to the set. That will give me all of the 2018 issues except for VEN104 and 1 of the three 2019 issues. Iām not really seeing many / any of the 3 new 2021 notes for sale already graded by PMG. Iām sure thoseāll start popping up soon enough.
Iām getting moving on this later than Iād originally thought but I still want to and like the idea of mostly finishing a Venezuelan Hyperinflation set before the end of 2021. Iām only going to need about 6 more notes to make that happen.
My wife has this group of friends she talks to on Facebook Messenger thatās a group of moms with kids all around the same age as Sam. Andā¦ I guess she was telling them about my currency collecting and brought up my turtle theme set and one of them asked if I had a Kuwaiti 1/2 dinar noteā¦ and I was like, āNoā¦ why?ā Apparently it has a sea turtle on it.
It really is amazing, the unexpected ways that information comes to you sometimes.
So Iāve added a slot to my Turtle set to remind me to go after that later, right along with a 20 Ringgit note from Malaysia.
Maybe one of these days that set will look a little more like something / a little more impressive.
Edited to add: After boxing them up the other day, the 15Ā bearer and traveller's checks were picked up today and are now officially on their way! So... I guess I'll know how they did in like late June or July.
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