Banking on old bank notes

Keepsakes for future returns: Goh showing his collection of various phone cards. It became a failed investment, no thanks to the mobile phones.

SIBU: The number of people buying old bank notes and coins as a form of investment is on an upward trend, especially among the middle-aged who have lost their jobs during the pandemic.

“This might look unusual, especially when the economy is bad. What’s more when some of the buyers had lost their jobs during the pandemic,” said Sarawak Philatelic and Numismatic Society president John Goh.