Welcome to my website.

  Here you will find selected listings of my current stocks of GB and world paper money. There are many high grade and scarcer notes for you to look through. Please see below for terms of sale, payment instructions and also a guide to the Grading System plus some of the abbreviations used to describe the general condition of the notes.

Please feel free to tour my site and email me with your comments. All e-mail is appreciated. If any particular banknotes that you are searching for are not listed, please email me as I may be able to acquire specific notes upon request. I search for scarcer items if you would like to send a "wants" list.

 All enquiries are treated with the strictest confidence.

Many scarce & collectable notes for sale.
Please visit the price list for an a-z index of notes in country origin. Many thumbnail photos are available for viewing but please ask for a scan of any others that you may be interested in, eventually all notes will be thumbnailed but this will take a little while.

WORLD PAPER MONEY.
Situated in County Durham, in the North East of England. I will travel extensively to view all quality and rare banknotes. Check my price list for some of my latest finds. I am an active buyer of early and scarce banknotes including GB and colonies, Greece, Itay, Portugal and Germany but will also buy any banknotes of interest to me and my clients.

VALUATIONS.

I have a valuation service available for insurance and probate purposes. If you require a valuation on a collection and then decide to sell to myself the valuation fee will be then refunded. All transactions are undertaken with the strictest confidence. If you only have a few notes to value and you can send me a scan of them I will do this for free and make you an instant offer.

Please contact me if you require any advice, or you wish to purchase any of the notes for sale. Thankyou.

2011 & 2012 PAPER MONEY FAIRS.
I attend numerous paper money and coin fairs during the year, please see below for upcoming venues that I will be attending. I am also the paper money consultant for LONDON COIN AUCTIONS, see below for their next auction venue. Email me if you have any paper money for sale or to consign to the next auction.

a few fairs that I regularly attend are:

United Kingdom

YORK Stamp & Coin SHOW

MIDLAND COIN & PAPER MONEY SHOW--every 2nd Sunday of the month

LONDON COIN FAIR--Holiday Inn

LONDON WORLD PAPER MONEY FAIR

NORTH of ENGLAND COIN FAIR-- Tynemouth

LEEDS COIN SHOW - Denby Dale, nr Wakefield every last Sunday of the month except December

Netherlands

MAASTRICHT PAPER MONEY BOURSE

Italy

VERONAFIL

Germany

COLOGNE PAPER MONEY SHOW

NOVEMBER FAIRS 2011 where I will have a table :  (web links are in blue)

LONDON COIN FAIR--Holiday Inn  Coram Street, Bloomsbury on Saturday 19th November--upstairs near entrance--buying and selling.

LEEDS COIN & PAPER MONEY SHOW , Cedar Court Hotel, Denby Dale, near Wakefield, (just off M1-- Junction 39) on Sunday 27th November.

DECEMBER FAIRS 2011 where I will have a table :  (web links are in blue)

MIDLAND COIN & PAPER MONEY SHOW, National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, on Sunday 11th December.

JANUARY FAIRS 2012 where I will have a table :  (web links are in blue)

MIDLAND COIN & PAPER MONEY SHOW, National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, on Sunday 8th January.

YORK Stamp & Coin SHOW, York Racecourse-Mezzanine level, Friday 20th January & Saturday 21st January .

LEEDS COIN & PAPER MONEY SHOW , Cedar Court Hotel, Denby Dale, near Wakefield, (just off M1-- Junction 39) on Sunday 29th January.

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LONDON COIN AUCTION:

The next auction of GB and world paper money will be held on Saturday 3rd December 2011 at The Grange Hotel, Bracknell, Berks. Please view website at www.londoncoins.co.uk for online catalogue listings. There is a wide range of GB with low number Irish notes, GB provincial issues and world collections in albums.

 If you would like to consign any banknotes for any upcoming auctions or sell to me directly please email me.

In the June 2007 auction there were over 250 high grade white fivers which included 40 consecutive Catterns, 20 consecutive Beale's and over 160 consecutive O'Brien's plus others.They sold for circa £40,000.

   Click here to see photo.

Inland U.K. postage & packing charges are as follows:
1st Class Post - 50p (your risk, proof of postage)
Recorded Delivery - £1.50 (your risk, insured to £30)
Special Delivery / Registered Post - £6 (insured up to £500)

Overseas Post and packing will be charged at my current rate of £1 (Europe), £2 (outside Europe) for normal airmail (your risk),

Insured "Signed For" £8

High value notes sent by DHL or Fedex only --for extra security-- £35

For payment within the UK I prefer personal cheques or direct bank transfers but will accept Paypal if you pay the transaction fees, see below. All bank cheques please make payable to IAN GRADON.

For easy payment is available to overseas clients (I also accept this form of payment from UK clients but a GB cheque or online bank transfer works out cheaper).

For overseas customers, please click on the link below to check the value of your currency against Sterling and to calculate currency conversions.

I have been a member of IBNS for many years now and am an ex-Director to the Board, I endeavour to grade my bank notes to their high standards though I am a little more conservative, the following is a simple guide only:

GRADING
UNC = uncirculated - (Perfect note)

aU/UNC = almost UNC to UNC (minor handling or corner fold)

aUNC= almost UNC (minor handling up to the lightest centre fold)

GEF= Good extremely fine (light centre fold &/or minor handling)
EF = Extremely fine - (few light folds / or 1 heavy crease)
VF = Very fine - (several folds vertically or horizontally, still clean)

F = Fine - (many folds, wrinkling, etc, presentable)
VG = Very good - (well used with many faults but intact)
G = Good - (well worn, with many faults, damage etc.)
P = Poor - (missing pieces, torn in half,etc)

any faults such as edge tears, pinholes or ink marks will be also mentioned.

Description of some abbreviations used:
Obv = Obverse
Rev = Reverse
i / a = Ink annotation
Phs = Pinholes
Canx = Cancelled
Ovpt = Overprint
W / = With
W / O = Without
Sm = Small

Abbreviations from catalogue descriptions:

P = Pick,A. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (3 latest volumes I, II & III)
C = Campbell,L.K., POW and Concentration camp money 1st ed.
SB = Schwan and Boling, WW2 Remembered,history in your hands
Dug = Duggleby,Vincent English Paper Money 8th edition 2011
D = Douglas,James Scottish banknotes Vol I (2nd ed),Vol II & Trevor Jones Vol III
Pirot = Pirot,Jean Les Billets de Chambre de Commerce 2002 ed.

O=Outing, Roger, Standard Cat. of Provincial Banknotes of England & Wales 2010

Ros =Holger Rosenberg,  Die Deutschen Banknoten ab 1871, 2009 ed.BMGC=Billetes Municipales Guerra Civil, Amoros & Gari  2002 ed.