And Malaysian collectors are a crazy bunch of fanatic collectors. They have started to queue at Bank Negara Malaysia Penang Branch since yesterday (26th June) 3.00pm in the afternoon and the BNM open for business at 9.00am today morning, that mean they have queued for some 30hours, can you believe it ?
I couldn't find any words best describe these types of collectors, perhaps you could call them fanatics, insane or "mat rempits collectors".
I reached BNM this morning at 8.30am just to have a feel of the atmosphere and to meet up with some friends there but i knew i couldn't have the chance to buy anything.
The scene from BNM Penang branch this morning 8.30am.
THE STAR newspaper 28th June 2014.
These are crazy bunch of Malaysian collectors queuing patiently under the hot sun of 36% celsius for hours and eighty percent were left with disappointment when the stocks ran out by 10.30am.
Set of 3 mintage 750sets
Set of 2 mintage 750sets
Single Gold mintage 500piece
Single Silver mintage 2000pieces
Nordic Gold mintage 25,000pieces
Many of these sets (half of its mintage) were brought to China and presented as a gift to the chinese government by our Malaysian delegates to commemorate the 40th anniversary Malaysia China bilateral ties on 30th May 2014. Therefore only half of its mintages were available for our domestics numismatics markets hence the supply were not sufficient for the hungry collectors.
Happy Reading !
Andrew
Malaysia Boleh!
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