The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 39, September 28, 2003, Article 15

PAPER MONEY "SHELF LIFE"

   Regarding last week's question about the longevity of paper
   money,  Howard A. Daniel III writes: "During a trip to Viet
   Nam in October 2002, I was offered a large leather wallet
   with some Vietnamese communist notes in it.  The owner had
   hidden it in the wall of his house in July 1954 and his family
   had just found it.  The notes were printed on very crude
   unwatermarked paper with large amount of acid in them.
   Except for where they were folded, the notes were in good
   condition.

   I thought this might help David Fanning in answering Lisa
   Mao's question about the "shelf life" of paper money.  And
   please tell her that as a numismatist, I am not only interested
   in coins, but paper money, chits, checks, coupons, tokens,
   stocks, bonds, etc., etc.  And I know many other numismatists
   interested in more than just coins."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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