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Yes definitely the one that got away....it popped up at a time when I had only just started to dabble in certified notes and couldn’t justify it to myself at the time. I am sure we all have those stories, I know of many other buying opportunities I had passed on because I thought at the time it was overpriced or out of my league. Only to find out years later what a great opportunity it actually was! 🤦‍♂️

Hey Mike, I am honestly unsure but I wouldn’t imagine it wouldn’t go for very big $$ as the demand for high graded quality in Nicaragua notes just isn’t there at the moment! I picked up this beauty 69🌟 my highest graded note for just under u$150 last year.

Haha that is true, I think the FOMO gets to every collector at some point too! Thanks for your kind words! And with your Zimbabwe notes you can definitely can see this dedication in your sets 👏 I actually noticed your set when I was adding my own Zimbabwe notes and saw this attention to detail with your images and descriptions and decided that I had to up my game with my own Nicaragua set! I had already spent a lot of time researching and felt that I had to share this info with others I also had some competition of my own with another collector that had won an award with a neighbouring country set that was expanding into Nicaragua, and was now aggressively adding more notes and this had briefly relegated me to second spot! And yes I did get a featured article in the newsletter and also one of my notes was shared on the Facebook page! Its great to see you have one of the Nicaragua notes, the latest polymer issues are great bright notes! That is the great thing with this hobby is that there is so many collecting possibilities! Be it turtle images or other animals, personalities, type sets, serial numbers the sky is the limit! 😅😂 Are the Nicaraguan hyperinflation issued notes on your collecting radar?

Hi there Revenant, You have made some very valid points, I have seen the prices dip when certain eBay vendors over sell a certain issue. And in some cases they are lucky to even get back face value for some of the higher denominations after many examples of the same note have already been offered! I did dabble in Zimbabwe a few years back but I was generally just picking up some extra certified notes to take advantage of the higher costs in international postage! 😅 so you don’t have to worry about me 😁 I personally would love to have a 70 in my Nicaragua set and am regretting passing on the opportunity I had several years back. I thought at the time paying u$150 for a note that had a face value of just u$3 was crazy 🤯 And unless they have added some more recently at last check there was actually only 3 in 70 for all of the Nicaraguan issues. And all three are for a 2011 50 Cordobas commemorative polymer issue! I do have a few graded at 69 and I have one at 69 🌟 And I know your struggles with those auctions, I seem to see the same *** out names bidding against me on a regular basis! Some of them I have actually come to know as we are in a Nicaraguan collecting group together! 😅😂 and in between typing this I just got sniped on a couple of extremely low serial # notes I had my eyes on for the past week 😢

That’s great news I look forward to it! thanks again Ali 👍😊

Thanks Ali for the clarification 😊 Would it be possible to request to create a new set just for replacement notes? There is quite a few from P 151-156, 158, 159, 163 and 201 - 216.

Hi PMG Registry, Just a little concerned to see that I had lost more than half of my points on my Nicaragua complete set 😢 Checking it out further I noticed that all my specimens were gone. I am hoping that this an update to the set!? and you are adding new slots for specimens and have only just started working on this with the newer issues as per the screenshot below. If this is also the case and you are adding variants for the specimens would it be also possible to add the other a, b, c and replacement variants to the Pick #s? this can give me something else to work on! 😅😁 Thanks 🙏

Excellent 👏

I have sent in a few batches to PMG from Australia without an issue! After years of buying and hundreds of packages being received from all over the world I’ve only had issues a handful of times. A couple of notes were damaged might have been customs? As they had holes in them, one was PMG certified! 😢And I received an empty envelope once. But I would say it’s really a 1% chance. Like the other guy said get registered mail with a signature on delivery and I packaged mine in a box with the notes wrapped in bubble wrap for extra protection!

Thanks 😊🙏 They are rare but I have seen others!! I was outbid on this PCGS certified 100 Cordobas solid zero note going back a few years...

And lastly my solid zero serial 😎

Haha 😆 thanks! I have some good collecting friends that have sourced some special notes for me over the years!! here are a few more for you 😉 these are my low and high serial #s 5 Cordobas serie C had a run of 17 million 50 Cordobas serie D was a run of 3.5 million 50 Cordobas serie E was a run of 3 million and I have a few more examples like these ones! I did become a little obsessed with these serial #s for a while!

Lucky number 7 my lowest serial numbered note and a few more low #s

Repeater serial matching #s the 1000 Cordobas is the older paper note and is unc the 100 was circulated 😢

Matching #s binary serials

Here is a set of 3 Radars from the current Nicaragua series that I am yet to send in for grading!