Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Hands down, best thread on this forum. Great notes everybody.

My latest addition to my serial “12” collection. Super Repeater.

 

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It is GOOD to be proud of any specimen-note...

 

Imagine the transactions that one took part in!!!!! Nice!!!

 

You want that Fair 2 to be a Poor 1? Hold my beer...

Today's new pickup is the first national I think in a while, this $10 was when I think I was first starting to think of collecting nationals instead of grabbing good deals on nationals. Go ahead collect them all, the Powerball is sure to come through any day now to enable that... this not rare but certainly not common bill is I'd consider in the collectible range as far as abundance goes, and it's from the Milford National Bank in Ohio. I imagine anyone named Milford is at least partially happy they have a neat bank note with their name in it. Small solace when you are getting beat up on the playground because you're named "Milford", but still not all memories can be sanguine...

 

Here's a low-ish serial number from a 2016 Coin and Currency set from the Mint.

 

It certainly has good margins.

 

any less and it would no longer exist

 

my newest addition to my collection: USN $5 Star-Repeater:

 

Anyone from Westfield, NJ?

Annotation says: One of first issued by Peoples Bank and Trust Co. Westfield, NJ.
7/10/29

Cool note with some history. Def PPQ without the annotation.

 

Another Whitman Expo pick up:

 

...you are now one of THE BODY...

 

Awesome! Did I miss something...where's the front of the note?

 

Go back a few pages PlanoSteve (Plano, as in Texas? I can likely throw a rock and hit your house... in Frisco at the four corners between Plano, Frisco, Allen, and McKinney...) it's there... #5540 I believe.

Today's new pickup is another Mississippi obsolete, this Confederate state issue $3 note. Cotton Pledged instead of Pinky Swear pledged, this note is of course my favorite denomination, red and green overprint, and someone with arthritis and kids safety scissors cut the note from the sheet... at least on the bottom.

 

Yes, if you aim the rock a few blocks south of the Walmart @ Spring Creek & Coit, you'll likely hit me!

I found the note posted at #5540 & now remember seeing the great train graphic on that Indiana note. In fact, I "liked" it at the time (I thought I had seen the back before - it reminded me of writing 100x on the blackboard "I will not........".)

 

Got this one in the mail today. Not a great bargain, but I like the first 1928 funny backs, and especially a star note. Condition as listed by the auction house was "choice AU", and I tend to agree. It might get a low Unc grade if I sent it in for grading. If there is odd looking blotches around it, it's from the plastic holder, note has crisp clean edges.

I'll have a fairly large bunch of coin going in later this year, and might toss it in then.

 

Well, the picture quality is poor, but the beauty of this note shines through - nicely designed star note (I particularly like the reverse!). Well done!

 

Looks more like a painting than a note.

 

Today's new pickup is this 1837 $3 obsolete from Michigan, the Jackson County Bank. Besides being the best denomination, this highly collectible but not hard to obtain bank has grest designs. Alot going on design-wise here, very intricate denominators, interesting center engraving, an almost apparition there with Moneta and Hermes or whichever allegorical figures they have, and her pet griffon, which be honest, would be the coolest pet...

 

Agreed, the engraving on this note is incredible!!! I wonder if this is what prompted the old saying "Queer as a $3 bill"? I have to get one!

 

How much was $3 worth, 180 years ago? I know there is an inflation calculator,
but the numbers don't always make sense. How much was a pound of sugar, or a pound of coffee? How much was a newspaper 2 cents? What was a daily wage, $1?