Today, there is a little bit heat discussion about "Wang baru Malaysia problem" (Problem with Malaysia New Commemorative banknotes) in Bank Negara Malaysia official Facebook. In my earlier post; Exchange faulty new commemorative notes, BNM said that we can change the commemorative sets if they're faulty (Faulty mean the notes got fold, torn, wrong serial numbers etc). As long as the mistake is not hand made by collector. I don't want to talk about the discussion, you can read it yourself in BNM Official Facebook. BNM Admin in that discussion agree to give a collector chance to change his premier set with inspection by BNM staff to make sure the fold is not mistakenly made by human.
Ironically, one hour later, my sifu from Penang called me asking about the new commemorative banknote price in Kuala Lumpur. Normally, he don't called me, I am the one who always called him asking his opinion. He told me, he bought 30 sets of the premier and from that 30 sets, only 2 pieces of the commemorative sets don't have faulty banknotes. He also having the same problem as mine, most of the RM10 and RM20 have press mark like what you can see in the picture above. Lucky for him, he can sell all the other 28 pieces to his family and friends. Some of the notes a torn a little bit, he said the torn only can be seen if you take out the notes from its packaging. Most probably the notes get the torn when they put it in the packaging. These kind of defect will surely downgrade your collection grading and value. I talk with my sifu for about an hour about this matter, he advice me if you can find flawless banknote set, keep it. It might get a higher price in the future because many of the commemorative banknote do have some defect.
Just a few questions to all my Malaysian friends who bought this banknote:
1. Do any of you have the same problem?
2. Have you try to change it at the nearest BNM branch?
3. How many percent of set you buy have some defect (problem)?
Please share it in here.
