World Paper Money Banknotes Available at Egan Store
At Egan Store (now Egan Shop), while we made our name as arguably one of if not the world's premiere purveyor of exotic numismatic collectibles, notably banknotes and coins from currencies such as the following:
- Iraqi Dinar
- Vietnamese Dong
- Indonesian Rupiah
- Zimbabwe Dollar
- Venezuela Bolivar
- Uganda Shilling (and close to 100 others)
When Mellenia and I started this business four-and-a-half years ago, we did so within weeks
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| Iraq 500 Dinar 2018 Banknote |
of her giving birth to our first child, P3 (Peter iii). I had spent all of my savings on the immigration process, and had recently found myself unemployed when out of nowhere my father sold his company founded in 1988, Egan Home Health and Hospice, where I'd been promoted to the position of (HIPAA) compliance officer just a year prior.
So as a first-time husband and father with no money and no job, after two months of waiting for my first dinar purchase ever to arrive, by the time we got it we were flat broke with a newborn baby and couldn't afford to be making risky, speculative investments, but at the same time I considered (and still do consider the person who brought to my attention IQD to be extremely as credible and trustworthy out of everyone I've ever read or listened to speak on the topic. This person is so credible in fact that I borrowed $3,000 from my mother to buy dinar (not from him). I had to sell some because the job search took longer than was intended, and before you knew it we were both working full-time and overtime just to keep up with all the orders coming in for Iraq, Vietnam and Zimbabwe banknotes.
When we entered this market, this was not a customer-centric niche market. Today, it is a niche market where customers are treated with utmost respect, the opposite of the state of the market when we began selling after waiting two months for an order from a domestic vendor. We're proud to have been the infusion of competition that turned this into a viable niche. That's not the way in which this business operated before we started selling.
Now that's not to say that literally every company that predated us in this field performed poorly in a variety of areas prior to our entry into selling exotic banknotes, coins and stamps from some of the more exotic places on planet Earth. For one thing, we didn't buy from every company that sold dinar online right at the onset of Covid and all the mass-hysteria that accompanied it.
The fact is that while we did deal with all but one of the sellers I as able to identify as being in existence at the beginning of 2020 when we began our work in this line of business, the one has never had a late shipment and have competitive prices closer to ours than any of the others. That being said, the ones we dealt with were an absolute nightmare.
