Spending one afternoon with an extraordinary man whose collections cover the 209 countries and counting consist of different monetary notes, world’s simcards, bullion and new coins, vintage magazines, and post stamps. A vast collection started from a hobby at the early age of his life. He is a simple person, a dedicated family man with no vices, and safety conscious individual. With his hard work, self-motivated attitude and tie-up with other people gain support on his hobby. His good relationship with colleagues consists of different nationalities contributed much on his collections, some other collections are given them for free and other monetary bills are given as a gift for good will.

His name is Latheef Poolakkal, popularly known as “Latheef” from his colleagues and friends. Born on 30th of April 1987 in Ponnani at South India. He is familiar with languages of Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and English. Currently working with Petrofac International as Deputy Transport Coordinator at LFHO Project with ten (10) years total transportation experience from Kuwait and India. He knows the extensive route and traffic system on both territories. He worked with different companies and individuals including the former Indian Parliament Member-Mr. C. Haridas.

Latheef collections consist of paper monetary bills, coins, newspapers, post stamps and sim cards. During the presentation, he brought two (2) full folders alphabetically arranged money collection from different countries labelled into a customized template with name, flag, map location and basic information of the country. It is amazing to see that he has a collection of INR 10.00 with serial number patterned to his birthday and rarest collection of a star note of INR 100 with a value of INR 5,000 in the market. This is only the sample that he showed us, but he has vast collections from his country.

My attention was caught on some unknown territories that exist, a money note from a territory called “Guernsey” and “Jersey”, that based on my research are self-governing dependent territories of UK that are the Channel Islands found between England and France. The “Guernsey Pound” is widely used as a legal tender on the bailiwick of Guernsey and freely circulated in Jersey with the same acceptance of “Jersey Pound” for both dependent territories but both notes are not accepted on the mainland UK.

With his collections from 209 countries, he still needs to have a money notes from Panama and territory of Zanzibar to complete his collections. Zanzibar is an island in Indian Ocean that had once part of British territory but now a part of Tanzania. The currency being used in Zanzibar is Tanzanian Shilling (TZS) but US Dollar is widely accepted. You can contribute on his money collections specially for the country of Panama and territory of Zanzibar that you can reach through his email.

His collections are product of research from small unknown territories up to major countries of the world. A numismatist and a member of International Bank Note Society (IBNS) with different awards and distinction from different award giving bodies.

With good performance on his jobs, he received award under Petrofac HSSE and training on Kuwait Defensive Driving Course at Proximity. He also has training course on Warehouse Management System Training at Al Tayer, UAE with numerous performance awards from Al Tayer Company. Mr. Latheef Poolakkal can be reach through his email at latheefyumna@gmail.com and he is currently based at Abdali, Kuwait.

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