SM... Reading the Books on engraving written by Gene Hessler I have learned that the vast majority of vignetts were engraved and cataloged. Countries could simply go thorugh and select what vignetts they wanted for their currency....this is why you see the same vignetts on several issues of Obsoletes and world Notes. Not only vignettes, but floral designs, borders, scroll work and the like... Interesting reading of course....many of them have ID numbers in which to choose by. Regards, RickieB
Actually one of the Mexican notes I bought is from Coahuila, and the vignette on that note is probably one of the more common ones, that being of a young maiden with a scythe, she also appears on numerous Latin American notes, but also countries as far away as Russia in 1918. I will image it next week and put it on my site, but it also is on the Russian 100 Rubles of 1918, the Ecuadorian 5 Sucres of ca. 1920-1949, but was used as early as 1880 on an Ecuadorian commercial bank issue. There is another lady: That appeared on the 100 Franc note from Luxembourg in 1944, but she appears on notes in Latin America as early as the 1870's albeit with different backgrounds on the printing plate. This young lady appears on the Standard Bank of Canada $5 from 1891: But in later life, much later, she appeared on this Peruvian note: The one from Coahuila is persuading me to buy the Russian and Ecuadorian notes just so I have all the bases covered, but the latter two always sell at ridiculous prices.
I don't know..... Judging from his earlier posts, I think this kind of babe seems to be more Clembo's type.
Clem's tastes are just a wee divergent of the norm, but that is okay, there is somebody for everybody.
