RM500 signed by Ismail Muhammad Ali or is it the Bank Negara Malaysia 1st Gabenor Ismail Mohamed Ali? For this past few weeks, everyone keep on asking me if my old 500 ringgit notes is signed by Ismail Mohd Ali. Today, a guy called me and said he want to buy that notes. They sound like they desperately need to meet me today. One of the guy who called me, mistakenly asked his friends for approval about our meet up place. When I asked how many of them that want to meet me, he answered four. We arrange the meet up at 5.30 pm.
I have been doing business since 2003 and 4 people meeting me for a piece of banknote that I sold for RM650 sound suspicious. In my head they maybe want to rob me or something, that why they need 4 people to meet me. I learn my mistake before, while meeting customer in a mamak stall, a guy steal my straits settlements notes while I was talking with a customer. Nowadays, I always meet people at a closed door premises; like in KFC, McDonald or Pizzahut restaurant. All that restaurant had a glass door that you need to open to come in and come out and CCTV. Not like mamak restaurant with an open air concept were people can run away easily with your belonging.
I arrived at our meeting place around 5.15 pm but those guys already called me twice. When I arrived, I called them and they said they're in the mamak restaurant beside Port Klang McD. When I look at the glass window over to that restaurant, i saw four smartly dress guys paying their bill. I have a second taught, maybe these guys a Bank Negara Malaysia staff and want to meet me for real because of my post; this blog only for collector?
An older guy from the rest of them introduced everyone for me. He is telling me, he is the one who is calling and looking for that notes. He is asking if that note signed by the late Tun Ismail Mohamad Ali? I said it is not, my 500 ringgit notes signed by Tun Jaafar Hussein. He said a wealthy guy asked him to find a 500 ringgit notes with Ismail Mohamad Ali signature. The guy is telling him he heard a news that only 15 of such notes exist. He say sorry because that "Datuk" don't want to buy my note.
Malaysian and their rich quick scheme mentality. Everyone are thinking that I as a seller will sell that kind of rare banknote for RM650? Come on, that notes don't even exist. It is the same thing as the Malaysia Sa-Puloh Ringgit banknote with YDPA Agong watermark. That note are just replica and more like a myth for us collector. The best I can see is a guy who stupidly using a picture edited with Photoshop software of the sa-puloh ringgit and put it in his blog. Claiming that he own one piece of the notes.
Photo: Ismail Mohamed Ali SignatureTo all middlemen or any "runner" who is looking for the notes, please asked your customer first before you want to meet up. You don't even know how Ismail Mohamad Ali signed look like? His signature look like his name or you don't know how to spell? Please know what do your customer want you to hunt. Just don't waste people time and money meeting you. Go to school and learn or better asked around first.
To anyone who has found this note, please provide me with clear picture. I will put it here with a link to your blog or sales page. Anyone dare?
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