Paper Money: New Acquisitions

One I purchased a few months ago, an incredible rarity - this is a unique fragment of a merchant's issue of banknotes in the Massachusetts-Bay Colony that was printed in 1733. Due to a shortage of circulating medium several merchants formed a society to issue these notes. This example is the only known halfcrown note reported. It is now my second earliest colonial note.

 

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Kind of neat seeing notes I know I have spent examples of.

 

"Could become?" That's a beauty!

Amazing piece of history @scottishmoney

 

Yeah.. I think I’m headed down the rabbit hole… When I came across this note, it stopped me in my tracks.. I had no idea vintage World Notes looked like this… very reminiscent of old U.S currency (which is the style of note I’m attracted to) and I’d rank this one right up there with my favorite Large Size U.S. Notes…

It's uhh., a whole new world...

 

Australian 5 Pound Note, P-35:

 

My bank saved a $100.00 Star note for me this week. Series 2009A.

 

Just bought these on Heritage. Not that great of condition, but the price was right.

 

Put in a super low bid and won this stack of star notes.

 

Really jazzed about this recent pick-up and seeing as today is 2/2/22 it seemed like the perfect time to post it

Just love the design (which is always my primary consideration for adding notes to the collection) and this one just totally caught my eye. Not in perfect condition but I'd never seen one before and have had a difficult time finding another..

It features our first two U.S. Presidents, George Washington and John Adams as well as Zachary Taylor who was the current president at the time (March 1849 - July 1850) and I assume that since he was only in office for about a year and a half, this is the only note he ever appeared on and they probably didn’t issue them for all that long (which may be why I’d never seen one before)

It’s also the oldest note I have now as it’s dated 1849 and might be the most delicate note as well. The expression “paper thin” really applies to this one, it feels like it was printed on tissue paper.

 

A very nice looking obsolete note.

 

The last of the Mohicans. I usually don’t chase grades, but I had to have this beauty. A near-perfect example of the printers art. The note has boardwalk wide margins on the back.

 

-I hear you @SteveInTampa: & I'm not a grade-rarity seeker myself but I found this UNC67 100/- from Austria irresistible after a 2018 honeymoon in Salzburg & Vienna:

BTW: like the "boardwalk wide margins" expression.

 

This month’s “Club” $$$ ... I couldn’t find a USD value reference. ... Any help is good. ... TIA.

NO idea about this country. I added the info-pics as a reference.

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@Kashmir Pulaski

Transnistria 2007 issue
1 Ruble
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note203746.html

USD value c $1.19

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@Kashmir Pulaski

Although these were purchased about 12 years ago they may be of interest to you also being from Transnistria
I have 5 notes in the 1994 series

Scanned 1,5,10, and 10000,
50000 Ruble (not scanned)
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note203742.html

More information
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note203721.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistrian_ruble

Obverse
A younger looking General Alexandr Vasilievič Suvorov (1730-1800) – founder of Tiraspol

 

1954 Canada $2 with V/G prefix (slightly less common)



1999 Saudi Arabia 200 Rials Commemorative note. The note actually has a hairline fold down the center which really shows on the reverse in hand, but not so much in the picture - the company I bought it from still considered it UNC or close to UNC, but I wasn't happy to see the little fold when it arrived. I ended up not returning it due to lack of time. Oh well.

 

Nice $2 @ewomack ! Is the Saudi note a tough one? That's a drag it came with the fold (& I understand why you didn't send it back.. sometimes I do that too, accept as is, since the postage to send it back can make it not worth the expense). It's one of the reasons I only buy from a few select sellers now a-days.

Here's a 1998 25 Colones (P-149b) from El Salvador (which I have wanted & finally won a couple weeks ago). It features the San Andres pyramids on the front & Christopher Columbus on the reverse:

 

Belfast Northern Ireland - Bank of Ireland £1 6 May 1929


As a consequence of the partition of Ireland and Northern Ireland beginning in 1921 and thence Irish independence and the creation of a monetary authority in Ireland currency issue in both new entities changed dramatically. In the so-called Irish Free State a currency commission was formed beginning in 1927 with the long term objective of the government regulating paper money issue that had been the prerogative of of private banks for over 140 years.

Banks that issued notes in the now Free State had to issued Consolidated notes through the currency commission with a common design(the Ploughman Series) but banks issuing notes in Northern Ireland could continue to issue their notes as before - but those notes issued in NI could only circulate there and not the Free State.

This note is from the first issue where the Bank of Ireland issued notes in Belfast as opposed to their previous from Dublin issue - the 6th of May was the first date on all newly issued Northern Ireland notes. The design of this particular note is a continuation of the design used since 1922 in Dublin - but with Belfast instead. While the notes issued in Dublin previously were all printed at the Bank of Ireland headquarters there, these new Northern Ireland notes were printed by Thomas De La Rue. Whilst the colours of this note are very lovely they would be shortlived, only issued as such until 1936 when the colours of the £1 note were changed to blue - a curious feature since the colours of the £10 note were also blue, but the latter was significantly larger in size.

 

Beautiful note, and thanks for the info and scan.

 

Apparently, I'm into Canadian $2 notes these days... I do like the 1986 bird series... no rarities here, but I like the designs...