Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Not a note and not mine (on loan from the library), but I acquired this today...

 

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Really slim pickings at local coin show this weekend. Lots of 'slabbed' notes but priced at what I call "don't really want to sell it" prices. After several hours of looking and looking, haggling and haggling; finally found these three. The $1 1954 Canadian "Devil's Face" was only $3; other two were less than $20 for the pair.
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Well, I haven't posted anything in... a month. A MONTH. It isn't going to get better since I am about to go on vacation. But, let's post a few stacked up before I go.

Today's new pickup is this $10 from the Rhode Island Farmer's Exchange Bank. This early obsolete is drawn on the bank that is famous for... being the first to go bankrupt in the US. Way to lead the way!

 

Picked up a couple star notes today...

 

MEC2, I've got the same note as well. I had to get it just for the vey reason that it was the first bank to go under, the first " broken" banknote.

There's a little more to the story if you haven't looked it up yet, here it is, second note down: http://www.banknoteden.com/USA_Misc_Currency.html

 

Today's pickups...

 

Very nice!

 

Thank you Clay.

 

Today's new pickup before is this very early Connecticut obsolete, not as early as the Rhode Island note but not far behind, just behind in 1814. I do like this early design, obviously note design was in it's infancy but I liked how this note aged, like the solid 2's in the serial and the overall ink gall look that gives the paper it's character...

 

last night at heritage auction I got lucky I think.
I won a 1934A $5 bill silver certificate mule bill. 2 questions, 1.what is a mule? 2. are they pretty common?

 

Sharp color in the photo, nice pickup.

A mule is when a note is printed with the face or back plate from another series. In the case of your note, the back plate that was used came from a plate used for Series 1934. Some mules are common, some are not.

 

Really nice offset printing error!

 

Today's pickups...

 

Always like a light green seal pickup there Endeavor...

Today's new get is this sharp Brazil 1000 Cruzeiros note, this being the ABNCo engraved version. Later the hacks at TLDR did a knockoff for Brazil which I can only assume was designed to be cheaper. It is the orange faced variety which I posted not so long ago.

Do like the bright reverse on this note and the engraved depiction of the first mass in Brazil of Portuguese explorers...

 

Today's pickup...

 

I've been working on imaging the collection, and here is my first imaged paper piece. A *signed* piece of Griswold scrip from Worthington, Ohio.

 

Complete District set, Series 1963

 

Todays pickup (radar note)...

 

Today's final pickup for a while is this humble obsolete $2 note from the Sanford Bank. The scarlet overprint is darker than many reds you normally see... could just bee a darkening due to age. Whatever, those ladies are hard at work at the machine loom making who knows what...