PENANG BANKNOTES & COIN FAIR 25TH & 26TH APRIL 2015

The Penang coin fair at Komtar was organized by SP Xinxiaolang by the organizer Mr. Bert Chang and Khoon Huat Lim. This was the first and the largest coin fair ever held in Penang over the weekend. It was deemed successful with over 6000 people young and old from all walks of life attended the fair with over forty one dealers. Penang is just a small economy and having 6000 people attended the fair considered very commendable. Normally large banknotes and coin fairs are held in big economy place like in Singapore and the capital Kuala Lumpur where the power of "disposable income" of the financial standing per capital basis are strong.

On the first day of the fair many have complained the air-conditioning was not cold enough and was too hot and humid as it was too crowded throng with people and it was immediately rectify by adding a powerful air cooler on the back end. Another suggestion by most of the dealers are to have a larger bourse table hence they could display more items.

The key to the success attributed to the well-known dealers from as far as West Malaysia to the south of Malaysia - Singapore. It also attracted the attention of print media where it provide wide publicity coverage to the general public.

List of well known dealers

Master Saran Singh was among the crowd (image courtesy by Boson Goh)

The love birds 

Who's that guy ?

Some activities are going on literally behind the fair. The price here are cheaper than "the other side".

Hopefully the fair will be bigger next year. 

Congratulations and well done to the organizers - Mr.Bert Chang and Khoon Huat Lim.

Happy Reading,

Andrew