How LOW can you go ?

We all love the threads that have the killer notes posted. Great, sometimes rare notes with awesome grades.....well after reading Randy's (rjbeck) thread about his latest buy http://www.cointalk.com/t57412/ I thought why not start a thread asking for photos of your notes that seldom get the recognition they deserve. Let's see some notes that actually had to work for a living, and survived the BEP shredder. Dig down to the bottom of your paper money collection and show off your low-balls.





Thanks for the influence Randy.....I didn't want to hijack your thread.

 

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I don't have this note, but I saved the image because I never saw a "1" before!

 

You've never seen my ex-wife.

 

Rim shot!

http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=rimshot&play=true

 

I win.​

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/sorry...just couldn't help myself. ​

 

Woah how did you find that. Lyk OMG!

 

No I win!

 

?????

 

A couple more Emergency notes that changed hands in the name of commerce.
If you take your hand and put it over the left side of the Z-B note...it looks good.

 

Just wow~~~

 

Thought id add mine into the badly beaten mix. :smile

 

I think all these lowballs are great, but the CEC sarcophagus I posted has actually devalued the currency in it?
So what did I win?

 

I see a $1 silver certificate identified as a $1 silver certificate, and graded 70 - Perfect new.

Someone's going to have to explain the joke to me?? :scratch:

 

Here's my "Black" Eagle. I actually keep it separate from the others.

 

Here are my three worst notes. By far, the Colonial has seen better days and was even repaired/stitched back together...

 

If that bill is a 70, than I'm a trillionaire! CEC = Calls everything Choice! Everyone of those basement slabbed CEC notes that I see turn up on Ebay are graded a 70 regardless of wrinkles & crappy alignment.
What did I win fellows? Don't make me break out the big guns! I warn you I have a 1918 $2 that I paid under two bills for! It might be able to seal the deal? Be scared, be very scared cause I doubt it would even grade! OOOOOO I forgot about my 1917 $2 Jefferson that I paid thenty bucks for! That one took me an hour to stuff into a sleeve!!!

 

Ok...guess I'm dense. I still don't get the joke. I'll be over here in the corner. *heh*

 

CEC is a con artist outfit, and if you have a note in one of their slabs than it's worthless in the currency market. I doubt Heritage would even carry one of those for liability purposes, cause who knows what has been done to the note? Ergo; the lowest of the low!
What did I win?

 

I saw one the other day that wasn't graded a 70 and had to do a double-take.

 

One of the lowest and one of the oldest in my collection:



I think this is a PCGS graded 02 or something like that - the grade meant nothing to me as a collector - this note is one of the earliest available that was ACTUALLY printed by Ben Franklin. The post 1752 notes were printed while Franklin was in London and his partner David Hall actually did the printing. With this 1746 dated note there is no doubt.