Hello and welcome
This site aims to share my passion for ticketing (branch of numismatics dedicated solely to the study of banknotes). On this site you will find recent and current notes, old notes, 'unusual' or 'fancy' notes and even counterfeit notes.
Living in the French West Indies in the 70s, my first ticket was my first pocket money (at that time the French Antilles used the tickets of the Institute of Emission of the Overseas Departments), the second, slightly rusty, was recovered from the remains of a fire in Guadalupe (FWI).
Twenty years later, being in Ethiopia for professional reasons I sent a letter to 220 countries, letter explaining a little of our life there and I attached a note of a Birr (smaller denomination at the moment). I simply asked those who found my letter nice to kindly reply and send me the smallest cover of the country where they were. I received more than 150 responses with sometimes one ticket, sometimes two tickets and some times the full series of tickets from the country from which the mail came. I had just started my collection, I became a ticketing enthusiast.
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot professionally and now that I am retired I travel a little less but I try to keep collecting tickets from the countries where I go. I am also lucky to have some friends who participate in my collection by regularly bringing me tickets from the countries they visit for pleasure or professionally, all this without profit, just for the pleasure of embellishing my collection. Thank you again
Today, thanks to this, I have more than 2800 banknotes corresponding to 225 existing or former countries and institutions.
I would like to thank all those who, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes involuntarily, have contributed and continue to contribute,
for some years now, to advance my collection.
A special thanks to my daughter, Aurore, who has kept the travel virus alive and who especially respected my instructions, namely:
"Preferably, choose countries where I have not been so that we can discover them by going to see you.... and enhance the collection"
If returning from a trip or searching in your drawers you find tickets that you do not know what to do and want to participate in my collection....
Thank you in advance
Speaking very bad English, I used a translator for these few lines. I hope that this translation remains understandable. Thank you