Welcome to to my blog , I am Bruce  Tupholme , Investment Specialist ,  born  in South Africa , from Johannesburg where I lived , received my High School Education at St. Stithians College in Sandton and graduated with a Bachelors of Commerce Degree from The University of the Witwatersrand and running my own investment firm since 1985  , and emigrated  in 1995, staying briefly in Mexico (Puerto Vallarta) where I set up Mexico Opalos Corporation dealing in terrific Mexican Fire Opal Gemstones and the related website mexopals.com with my second wife Teresa Soares Tupholme a Portuguese  Clinical Health Psychologist now . I am an investment specialist dealing in top quality gemstones , bank notes and coins both as personal hobby and life work as well as for personal collecting interests.

We set up euroscoin.com when the Euro came in 2002 and after I had moved to my present home in Estoril , Portugal . This grew into iraqidinars.com when we found speculative investment interest in the Iraqi Dinar and then onto the broader interest collectorscurrency.com which we deal in a wide range of bank notes and coins and our specialist divisions of southafricacoins.net and southafricacoins.com, where extensive daily trading is now done in South African Investment Grade Nelson Mandela coins.

Today, I run iraqidinars.com dealing in Investment grade Iraqi Notes from the past to the more current speculative Dinars, collectorscurrency.com and southafricacoins.net where I also trade daily in South African Investment material and  am the oldest and largest dealer on Ebay in Portugal which I am very proud of , considering some exceptional challenges I have faced living in this country .

I have 1 daughter , Joy Michelle , from my first marriage , who resides in Johannesburg , South Africa.