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Dear LANSA members,
Another school year has just gone by with amazing speed and its
time again to tell you about all of the exciting and interesting
things our young bank note collectors have been up to these last
nine months.
With all of the recent changes taking place in the field of world
currency, our club bulletin board is teeming with headlines and
articles denoting these various changes. Our world geography studies
have certainly made such changes more meaningful to these young
people and have added to the excitement of adding new notes to our
club's ever-growing selection of weekly "bank note store" offerings.
Tuesdays are always "bank note day" for club members with two stores
being open in two of the school's classrooms. Following lunch,
members meet in these rooms to look over the newest available
selections and old favorites found among the half dozen containers.
Club officers run the "store" as well as participate in the pricing,
labeling, and placing in folders those new notes that are received
at the school every other week. Our members also sell Mylar folders
in assorted sizes to assist those students who have developed
sizeable collections in their three-ring notebooks.
A recent survey among these young people asked about their
all-time favorites of the 20th century world bank notes and the
results were most interesting. By far the most popular Latin
American note was the 5 Colones Costa Rican note of recent years.
The bright and colorful scene on the reverse of the note continues
to make it an all time favorite! Popular historic notes continue to
be selections of Mexican notes printed during the time of the
Mexican Revolution. As many are still quite readily available and
reasonably priced, these notes rate high among the historical note
collectors. Last are the growing facination among the young
collectors with the new polymar notes being produced now by a small
but ever-growing number of world countries. the new Romanian (year
2000) plastic Lei note denoting the last eclipse of the last
millenium, has created quite a stir among our young collectors thus
far this year.
In closing, I wish to offer my thanks to the many LANSA members
who have and continue to support our young collectors in their
growing interest in the hobby. After 32 years of teaching 11 and 12
year olds, I have decided to retire from teaching at the end of this
year. My replacement has already been selected and my personal hope
is that our school's bank note club will continue to prosper under
the leadership of this new teacher.
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