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The Appeal of Norwegian Currency with Kjell William Riibe

Q. What inspired you to collect Norwegian and Swedish bank notes?

A. I started to collect Swedish bank notes mostly because I thought the prices of Swedish bank notes were very cheap compared to Norwegian bank notes.

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

A. I have been collecting a little bit for 50 years, but more seriously for 25 years.

When I found out that I had the world’s largest collection of Swedish paper money, I had no collection of Norway paper money. I asked myself: Why don’t

I have a collection from my own country, Norway?

Then I really started to collect Norwegian paper money and I found out that if I

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