Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Those are some nice notes. It's nice to something a little out if the norm. Thanks for posting.

 

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Those are interesting notes trader. Are they expensive to obtain?

 

I have found that Obsoletes and Scrip are usually a very "interesting" area to collect. You are always finding something thats a little differnt...

They werent really expensive, I paid $20 for $5 and about $30 for the others. So, a little more than $100 but I have seen people ask for much more for them. If I take them to the Tulsa Flea Market I think I could pretty easily double my money...

 

There are so many things to collect yet so little time (and money) to buy them all. Here is something I managed to pick up recently.





Not the best grade, but it will do for now.

 

I would love one like that! When you want to upgrade let me know maybe I will be ready to purchase then!

 

Well, mergers and acquisitions have been going slow, and the fact my eBay bid program has been buggy lately and in fact missed firing a winning bid this morning (son of a...) isn't helping. Alas, I did acquire this 1862 $5 bill, I already had a FR 62 but I saw this 61 listed and low and decided to take a flyer on it, thought I might flip it. I eked out a win at an attractive price and now I think it will replace my 62, this one being a 61C variety, I just think it faces up a little better despite the corner clip.

 

Here is the other new note I got in yesterday - an upgrade for my fractionals frame. I have this note but in definitely rougher shape, this is a really nice example with the gold overprint still in pristine condition and not having the aged green patina - which is okay too, but I am pleased this one does not. Want to still upgrade by 25 cent second series and my 50 cent fourth series Stanton with his ZZ Top beard, so I will wait until I get those in before tackling that fractionals frame, you have no idea how hard it is to keep 29 little fractionals lined up...

This note also is nice because it does have just a bit of the next down note - which would normally be an error but is so common on fractionals... someone, somewhere, has one of these going damn where is the rest of the top of my note?

 

Great new additions everybody.

My latest addition to my serial #12 collection.
This one is from Jim at Tickle Your Fancy

 

12, again. :smile

Congratulations!

 

Found another 28, this time a Kansas City. Well on my way to the "VF class" District Set. And scored a couple more nationals. All this from the San Jose show!

 

Nice Steve! I got mine as well... I like the A/B Block but that 2003A G/H run had some very nice notes in it. Mine is below as well.

 

Well I went ahead and decided to keep my new 1862 $5 and will sell my old graded VG10 $5, and that seemed like the right moment to put my $10 I got in the frame, so here is the current result, my 1862 frame... getting a $20 will mess the whole thing up, and boy I look forward to that, as that is a hard get of a note...

 

San Jose Show?! I'm in the Bay Area. How did I miss it? Boooo!

Congrats on the new pickups, though.

 

Got a couple notes in, and I did win a smattering this weekend so hopefully next week I can start posting more regularly in this thread. This note is from Egypt, and it's one of the best Central Bank notes, the front is pretty nice with nice intricate design and the Bin Tulun mosque in Cairo, but the back I just love, ruins of the Temple of Ramses in Karnak is inset, and the hieroglyphs with the frieze depicting the River Nile. Love that back, it's dynamite. Those Greek and Egyptian notes, just love the ancient cultural history captured in the engraving...

 

Man I am finally rocking some auctions, nothing huge of note but quantity has a quality all it's own, so I expect a good amount of new stuff to come my way soon. Right now though, I am down to my last new Egypt in hand, this is a 1 Egyptian Pound note, showing the Sultan Quayet Bey mosque on the front, and the back has a towering Pharaonic couple and artwork at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel...

 

Oh you didn't know Funkee?!? It was a good show, but the Santa Clara show will be in April. I would wait out until that one, it's the biggest in the bay every year.

 

Got some more in the mail, could hit you with more Egypt but the band doesn't seem to like playing it so let's change quickly to Greece. This Fifty Drachma is one of the 1935 issues done in France, and it bears a strong resemblance to other French notes at the time, including French colonial notes. The paper is delicate, like the French, and doesn't stand up to much abuse, also like the French. It's one reasons these were the only types issued since they wore out so quickly, like a French division in 1940 (*rimshot* - thanks folks I'm here all week, try the veal...). Between the delicate paper, pastel colors, and design, it's positively might be the *gayest* Greek note issued, and being Greek, that's saying something... though I imagine the 100 Drachma issue with a lipstick wearing Hermes might take that prize. It's fabulous!

 

Am going to give this thread a like more so for the commentary then the actual note itself....it is a rather an amusing description!

 

Well that brief detour from Egypt to Greece is brief indeed as we are heading back to Egypt, and I really am happy with this new pickup, it's my earliest Egypt yet. Another large great design done by Bradbury Wilkinson with of course the ubiquitous Tutankhamen on the front and a high contrast mosque scene on the reverse, with a big Sphinx watermark. These notes are quite large, not as wide as a US Large size but a bit taller, these are the last of the notes of British Colonial Egypt...

 

Just picked up the $5 to go with the $1 and the $10