Many Vietnamese people are seeking to buy sets of multi-national bank notes as the Lunar New Year lucky money for their friends and relatives.
The set, which consists of 52 real bank notes of 28 countries, are sold at between VND200,000-500,000 (USD9.09-22.70).
The market for Tet lucky money is being transformed by different kinds of bank notes. Besides Vietnamese and USD small changes, there are Belarus 5 Rubles from 1992, Macao 10 Patacas from 2018 with all having the image of the dog on.
Among those, the 28-country bank note set is being sold on the internet claiming they can bring luck and happiness for people.
According to shop owners, they are real bank notes of countries such as the UK, the US, Japan, Australia and China with the smallest face value. They have the flag of the countries and sold along with a red envelope.
Nguyen Ngoc Lan in Hanoi’s Thanh Xuan District, a trader, said that the sets have attracted lots of customers this year because they are new. Each day, around 20 customers order the set.
Lan advised people to carefully consider before deciding to buy a set to avoid fake products.
Lien Huong in Cau Giay District, Hanoi, said that she has booked 10 sets of this kind as the lucky money for her friends and colleagues for the Tet Holiday instead of giving them US dollars as in previous years.
Tran Van Quang in Hai Ba Trung District selected the set to give his children because he wanted them to know more about the money of countries and have a better understanding of the world.
Source: VietNamNet