amir hazif is the eldest of 4 siblings. I wanted him to cultivate the interest in numismatic so that he could understand the creation and evolution of money. In January 2008, we lined-up in the Central Bank of Malaysia at 8am in the morning just to get a new issue of RM50 banknote. As each person was allowed to buy a piece each, we had to queue twice to get 4 pieces of RM50. There was also a group of Bangladeshi factory workers of 35-40 nos. unboarding a blue factory bus and lined-up to get new notes. Later I learned that it was the factory owner, an avid banknote collector, who instructed his workers to buy a piece each from the bank ...... ha .. ha .. ha

there is money around you. Money is only a creation and does not exist in civilised world. One has to turn back the time and understand the human evolution, economy development etc. to understand the money creation

one of my favourite collections, Ringgit Malaysia 10 in serial printout

1 cent coins have been in circulation for many years until late 2007 when feasibility studies revealed that the actual production costs eg. from mines exploration, mining, production of coins exceeded the face value of 1 cent coin itself. The actual value was 4.5 cents. Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia) then decided to abolish 1 cents in the market. As the Vice President of the Society, I was given an honor to make a public statement in a local newspaper in parallel to the BNM announcement.

me and my wife ....... less the 4 children. Wonder why I was in the royal malaysia police uniform? You will know more about it as you go deeper in the blog.

This article appeared in The STAR newspaper in 2006 about my hobby. Local dailies were still the best means to spread information as they covered wide range of readers especially the older ages who were not very much in ICT.