American Banknote Company

I am going to jump on one of those soon.. NEED one.. to go with my Coin From the Treasury Dept. At the Expo... Well That is what I will NEED to tell my Wife.. LOL..

I was reading somewhere they did Stamps as well.. Busy Company.

Thanks so much for the Links,..

 

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Yep! L---O---N---G history, gotta get yourself a copy of The Story of the American Banknote Company, by William Griffiths (1959) It's extraordinary and chocked full of actual engraved vignettes printed from the original plates!

 

Don't forget the Russians

The American Banknote Company also printed some awesome notes for the Provisional Government of Russia, I gotta represent and throw a few pics on here









They also printed other denominations, but the Soviets took over before they were able to introduce them into circulation. ABNCo notes are the best. :hammer:

 

Beautiful notes.

 

Wow, really some beautiful and interesting stuff posted here.

That from a "paperless" guy.....

 

I love the two headed dragon on the reverse

 

Coat of arms of Russia

 

The Un-issued Russian ones that I mentioned earlier are even more beautiful... Here are the pictures of the unissued specimens that ABNCo printed:

 

I must get some of those.. Wow!! Nice!

 

Looks like two Dragons to me :hail:

 

Only in the most remote way perhaps... if dragons are mythical creatures based on reptiles and reptiles and birds are considered evolutionary descendants... but that coat of arms has no scales-- only feathers, talons and beaks. Maybe the currency of Middle-earth has renderings of Smaug and popular fiction has clouded your interpretation of the Russian Coat of Arms.

 

Notes of this quality are some of the reasons I prefer paper money. The vignettes are wonderful. I lean towards Fractionals becuse of the vignettes and there never seemed to be many around in this condition. These are gorgeous notes. Very nice!

 

Another book to purchase is
Latin American Bank Note Records American Banknote Company Archives By Ricardo M Magan ISBN 1-932433-44-9

It is full of wonderful notes (unfortunatly all in b/w) with info on numbers printed etc

 

Saw a copy sell on Ebay for $47 the other day! Someone got very lucky!!! It was in great shape too!

Great looking notes guys! Makes me think I need to expand my want list to some of the very same notes shown in this thread!!! Thanks for sharing!

Darryl

 

WOW!!! love them!

 

These specifically caught my eye :eat: Very nice!!!

 

I know right?? And this was 1919

We still can't get notes that beautiful for circulation in 2010 :goof:

Who knows, maybe the new $100 will change that...

 

Beautiful!!!

 

I just love the colors!!

 

That's a great price. I got mine for $85 inc. s/h. I'm sure someone was sad to part with that copy but another will be blown away to be the new owner!