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    Arnoldo Efron Keeps An Eye on Current Issues

    Jul 07, 2020 4 minutes
    Tracy Schmidt

    This month, I have invited Arnoldo Efron, an expert on foreign currency, to share some of his thoughts on collecting and identifying bank notes. Since its ›rst issue in 1990, his MRI Bankers’ Guide to Foreign Currency™ has been relied upon by commercial banks, exchange bureaus, libraries, universities, coin dealers, travel agents and others to provide a current reference to currency changes. The 95th edition of his reference just recently went to print. For more information about the guide please visit https://mriguide.com/.

    Q. How long have you been a bank note collector?

    . I started collecting stamps, coins and

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