Paper Money: New Acquisitions

well....I looked on Ebay..... this note ranges in price from $15.50-$325.00 wow is yours worth $325.00 ?

 

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Yoda - I am unsure if there are any uncirculated issued notes of this type, mine is about as nice as you can get on eBay, don't pay too much, you can get a copy of this IF you are patient for $50.

Alright, today's new get is a note I've missed a time or two but doesn't come up all that much, the rare 1928-C series, this one a $10 from Cleveland. Graded F15, fits nicely into the gaping hole in my small size collection... now the gaping hole is Richmond, a hole likely to remain agape for a while...

 

Today is a new addition to my FRBN district set in 58 grade: New York. The asking price on this one was quite high. I ended up trading a Philly $20 FRBN in 63PPQ for this one. I got an awesome deal on the Philly note, for which I had little use - so it was win-win.

It's been a rough ride trying to acquire such a specific grade.







Tomorrow comes a big ticket item.

Here's a general hint: It's small, red, and revolutionary - mis amigos.

 

awesome deal man! Lucky! I have been on hold since I just bought a house...I can't wait to get back into collecting again!

 

Today's new pickup is the first early national single in my collection - it's rough but the price was so so right, I had to get it. This is the first release, Colby Spinner 1865 - it was a very good year. Just not at the theatre...

 

Another basic note to add into the collection. Eventually I'll up grade to something without folds. What made me pull the trigger was the cost verses value on the item.

 

The Philly $20 FRBN 63ppq cost me $49. I used ebay bucks and an ebay coupon to get it down from an already low $110 hammer price.

Someone might call me crazy for trading down like that, but I haven't seen another 58 new york for sale in over a year.

 

Because I decided to take the MPC Mini-seminar this summer, I decided to pick up a few US MPCs. Here's three of the lot.


And here's the 10c note. Looks like an AU to me.

 

And I finally got to scanning the rest of the haul.

 

My newest addition:

Fr. 1500 - 1928 $1 Legal Tender 65PPQ.

Serials under 5,000 carry a nice premium. This was the only range released in the United States. The rest went to Puerto Rico.

 

I just posted 9 new notes here: http://www.cointalk.com/t226220/ any help with further identification and value would be greatly appreciated.

 

Great pickup Funkee, you did right waiting for one with good margins, this issue generally has just terrible cuts... I myself would be happy with an XF with decent centering, but it seems like these small red seal aces are either beat to ****, or slab queens. That note looks familiar, is it an eBay conquest?

Today's new pickup is a nice XF five pound note from Scotland, I really like the notes that have the crests with griffons and lions, this one has it as well, it also has a design element that I think is common to Bradbury Wilkinson designs from the period, which is the subtle fishnet in the background of the face - you see this on Egyptian notes a ton, again due to the BW design, they generally do quality work. Like the blue on a note, always have, and this and alot of Scottish notes double down with heavy blue front and back. The reverse here shows Edinburgh Castle, and what I believe is an early version of engravers photoshop as I don't believe the National Commercial Bank of Scotland building really is in the foreground of Edinburgh Castle. I mean who builds a castle next to these kind of pedestrian buildings, King Friday? BOOM SHAKALAKA on the King Friday reference, I just rocked your childhood world with that.

 

Mec i haven't heard the term "slab queen" before. Give a broader description of that meaning if you wouldnt mind please.

 

Speaking of terrible cuts (margins)



...but it does have a lovely, low serial number.

 

This is an ebay conquest, though I did put in my bids on heritage on a number of these red seals before this one popped up on ebay. I hadn't seen this one before, but it was up for maybe an hour before I grabbed it.

I wonder if I will end up with 5 of these notes if my bids win the heritage auctions.

And yes, I've noticed there are almost no XF examples. I see AUs often, but nothing on the 30 to 45 range.

 

I thought you were going to say AU58, based on a recent post. :>)

 

Attended the (PNNA) Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association 64th Annual Convention this weekend and came away with Kansas City star.
Now am not color blind but i haven't had the opportunity to handle enough of these yet so this is the blue/green variety correct? Sorry the photo is a little on the dark side.

 

Nice star Bonni!

Funkee, two things figured - first, after complaining that there were no mid level FR1500's, not one but TWO closed, one a 30 and one a 35, on doucheBay yesterday. And second - I ended up getting a nice high AU/UNC note which I will of course post as soon as I get it. Not as well centered as yours to be sure, but probably well under half the cost, because I am a cheapskate like that...

Today's new pickup is a minor upgrade for me, from a VG10 to a solid fine here, and for slightly less money, an always hard, always limey, 1928-C variety, this one a $20 from Chicago. I think tomorrow we will likely post an entirely new country...

 

Nice pick up Mec.

I almost got an XF 1928c SF $20 for a steal. I almost cinched a lot of $20s a month back with that bad boy in it.

I bid minutes after it was listed, but then the seller realized what he put up and tried to get me to retract my bid so he could edit it.

When I asked why he wanted to edit it, he asked me which note I was interested in. I told him it was the 1928c note and he claimed to have sold it already. When I told him it would bring big bucks, the note somehow got unsold and he decided to leave the auction as is.

The description was vague and the photos blurry. I thought I had it with 4 other 1928 and 34 $20s for just $120. Then I got sniped with a few seconds left and it closed at nearly 400, just over my max. Twas a sad day.

 

I said I'd be posting a whole new country and I better post this note to follow through. I saw it and got it ultra cheap, but I knew immediately when I saw it that it was ABNCo gold... like the reverse. Now on first blush, looking at this 1944 2 Cruzeiros note, you may think "some knucklehead wrote on it!!!" Well come to find out that is how this issue was released - hand signed on the face! Later issues used regular printed signatures, but for this and other released at the time, they were hand signed on issuance. That's gonna cause a hand cramp...

Alot of great ABNCo designs around this time for Brazil, I think I might have to get a few more of them...