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Pirate Treasure!

November 10, 2013 Leave a comment

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Did you know there were gold and silver bank notes?

Yes,they exist.I saw them at the COINEX-Mumbai.They are official legal tender of Antigua And Barbuda.

There are 30 0f these notes which form part of the collection called The Saga of Treasure Ships and Pirates.

They are:

1. Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge
2. Bartholomew Roberts’s Royal Fortune
3. Charles Vane’s Ship Challenges HMS Buck
4. Stede Bonnet’s Sloop Royal James
5. Benito de Soto and the Black Joke
6. Captain George Lowther and the Happy Delivery
7. Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind
8. Captain Edward England and the Cassandra
9. Captain Thomas Cocklyn and the Bird Galley
10. Captain Kidd and the Adventure Galley Read more of this post

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Comics As Assets

November 10, 2013 Leave a comment

wealthymatters Bought for 60 paise in the 1960s,sale price Rs 70,000 in 2013. Even accounting for inflation, that’s a super return on investment. Appropriately so, as the reason 60 paise can turn into Rs 70,000 is superheroes. A mint condition 1960s’ Indrajal comic book with a cover price of 60 paise will get you Rs 70,000 from the right buyer. Indrajal was published by Bennett Coleman & Company Ltd, which also publishes the TOI.

Old comic books like those published under titles Indrajal, Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle and Chitra Bharti Kathamala have become highly sought-after and high priced collectors’ items. In this trend, India is following the US, where old comics have been collectors’ classics for a long time.

In 2011, Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage’s copy of Action Comics No. 1 featuring the first appearance of Superman sold for a super price of $2,161,000 in an online auction.

Bangalore-based history teacher and graphic novel collector Arun Prasad, whose old comic book fetched Rs 70,000, recently got his collection of over 15,000 comics valued. His assets in the form of graphic novels are worth over Rs 1.7 crore. Prasad is a determined collector. Recently, he took a trip to Kashmir to purchase old comic books.He possesses the entire Indrajal series in a few languages. Read more of this post

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The Housing Sentiment Index

October 24, 2013 Leave a comment

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The MB IIMB HSI,jointly developed by IIM-B and magicbricks.com will determine how buyers and investors view the market, which in turn, influences their purchase decisions and aggregate demand. The index is likely to become an early indicator of how markets would perform in the future.

An HSI of 100 suggests that buyers expect prices to remain at current levels while values lower and greater than 100 suggest that buyers expect prices to fall and rise, respectively.

The Housing Sentiment Index (HSI) has dropped almost 20% over the past quarter across India, except in Bangalore, where sentiment has improved due to the uptick in the IT industry. The aggregate HSI dropped to 93 from 117 in the previous quarter. Read more of this post

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Invest In Land In Suburban Villages

October 23, 2013 Leave a comment

Here are the reasons to invest in land in suburban villages:

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London Property – A Global Reserve Currency

October 17, 2013 9 Comments

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According to Britain’s Office for National Statistics,London house prices rose 9.7% between July 2012 and July 2013.In fact for a number of years London real estate has returned an annualized return of round 10%.

World over, the UK political system is seen as stable and government policy as predictable.

Also,the property tax regime is very gentle.For example, the property taxes on Mayor Michael R Bloomberg’s $20 million London home comes to $3430.

Furthermore,if a person can demonstrate that he/she has a residence in another country.he/she is taxed on only his/her British earnings. Read more of this post