Post your favorite bills

It doesn't matter if you own them or not.
Just post a pic of your favorite bills.


By the way does anyone here own one of these?

 

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Anyone want to buy this for me.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TT-1923-5-SILVE...in_0?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116#ebayphotohosting
Please. lol

 

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I really do own this:

 

Cool. :thumb:

 

I don't have one of these but I would love too. I think it is my favorite note...not by a lot, but it is. It's a series 1918 $2 Battleship note. I'll get one someday.

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Old currency looks so much cooler than current.

 

Iowa Obsolete

Here is a scan of one of my Iowa obsoletes.

 

Got One

Mine is not near as nice but it is a solid XF. I like it.

 

One of my top favorites. Just as much a work of art as currency. And no I don't have one, lol.

 

Here's another one that I love...and isn't in my collection (yet). This is a Series 1869 $1 Rainbow note. The 1869 series notes combine beautiful artwork with amazing colors...and they are incredible valuable. Maybe someday I'll own a nice one.

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My favorite Bill would have to be Mr. Bill.

Oh, no!!!!

 

This is my favorite bill. Its a Japanese 1957 1000 Yen. Its my first foreign bank note gifted to me by an uncle that got me started in currency.

 

Hmm, would be a close tie between this:

http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=917703

and this:

http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=918164

Both were excting acquisitions for me Artistic elegance and dragons, can't beat that.

And this will always stick in my memory as the most excting thing I found in circulation:

http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=917690

Still can't believe someone just spent it!

 

The Armenian notes were printed by Waterlow and Sons in London, they just are amazingly lovely and well printed notes from a part of the world that usually had very plainly printed banknotes.

 

@ Hugh: That very well be my first bought bill. There is one on ebay for 120 bucks but it has been washed
@Jrankin05 That note reminds me of an article I read in Coin Age "Everything old is nude again"
@RichieB16 The blues in that are amazing. :thumb:
@Kidromeo Notes and coins are always better when there is a story behind it.
@Troodon I have never found anything besides a few stars in circulation. And for the others... I cant read them.
@scottishmoney I like how it is like bands of colors.
@Hobo ROFL!

 

Yes..I do own these...and I realize I missed this thread sometime ago...so better late than never....

Sorry for all the images, you said post em...LOL



































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That should be enough for now...


RickieB

 

There will be a curious convergence of ideas here as to what constitutes favourite notes, in that they may indeed vary in country and subject, but one thing appears to unify them all, they were nearly all printed in the same era of the late 19th century on up through the 1940's. They represent the pinnacle of design and printing technique in their respective countries:



Indeed colour was very important, dramatic and evocative all the better: