Paper money graders / grade this note corrctly win a prize!

This is kind of a contest to see who can guess the grade correctly
Of my Series 541 $1 note, Good Luck!

To be successful you need to not only guess the grade correctly
You also need to tell me if the note is PPQ, you must supply both
Answers correctly to win, the first one to PM me with right answer
Will win a circulated Mpc

You will only get one try! per note the contest will end when the
Answer to both questions are answered, i will also provide clues
As the contest goes on!

First Clue:

This note has no rips tears or pinholes or any kind


By rustyxm at 2011-02-12

By rustyxm at 2011-02-12

 

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Hey Cookie thanks for the P.M. Nice try on this one but your answer is incorrect! Once this one
Is over you will have another try on one of the other notes i have in mind

 

pm sent

 

pm sent

 

PM sent

 

MS 65 and ppq

Dean 295

 

Dean, the Mint doesn't print paper money so the note isn't going to be Mint State anything. Paper money has a similar but different numerical grading system.

Check these out for example:

PCGS Currency Grading Scale

PMG Notes Grading Scale

 

In order to give everybody an opportunity to grade this note out i,am going to leave this
Up until Thursday regardless if we have a winner or not, I,am noticing in some of the
Answers people are just giving a general grade such as XF but in order to win you need
To be more specific, here are the breakdown,s in each grade so if you would like to
Change your grade guess i will give everybody an opportunity to do so. also if your happy
With your current guess just send me another PM saying i,am good to go!

Fine - 15,20,25

VF - 30, 35

XF - 40, 45

A/U - 50, 53, 55, 58

New - 60, 61, 62, 63

Choice New - 64

Gem New - 65,66

Superb Gem - 67,68,69

Perfect- 70

 

Pm sent

 

Everybody is doing a great job!

 

Enquiring minds want to know.

How did we do?

 

And the winner is Krispy!! by a nose!! his guess of A/U 50 is the winner! though we had a
Few that were close at XF 45 and A/U 55 i really wish we had more participants as it makes
Thoings More interesting here are the guess,es below.

Krispy- A/U 50

USS656- A/U 55 PPQ

Steve in Tampa- XF 45

Ikandigit- XF 45

Cookiemon- A/U 58PPQ

Camlove- 63PPQ


I was surprised the scans came out this good, the only thing wrong with this note is the
Upper right hand corner there is a small fold which knocked it down to 50, here is the note
I will be starting a new contest tonight or tomorrow with another note, this time it wont
Be in my photobucket album!

 

Congrats Chris!! I think i have your address but go ahead and PM me and i will send you
Out a circulated MPC

 

WTG, Krisp!

Thanks for the contest, mpcusa!

 

Ditto.

 

Cool. Thanks Rusty. I'm a bit surprised I got the grade spot on. I was fairly sure it wasn't a PPQ, but one could have given it a guess and had a 50-50 chance there I suppose.

Thanks all for the the congrats too.

 

I,ve got some extra time tonight so i will go ahead and start a new contest! Good Luck

 

Thanks for the excersise in grading Rusty, and congrats to Chris.

 

Sorry gang, I've been away and busy with some other things for the last couple days...

I wanted to thank Rusty for the prize notes he sent me. They arrived yesterday (2/22) safe and sound. Thank you very much.

So here they are, both Series 661 $1 and .05¢:












Also, if by any chance you are familiar with Washington state's natural settings or significant mountain peaks in the US, that's Mount Rainer with Mirror Lake in the foreground on the back of the $1 note.




[Flickr Troy Mason]


This vignette on the $1 is similar (flipped it appears) to the one also used on the 1934 .03¢ US Postage stamp:

 

Very nice, again Congrats!