I realy hate you guys (not realy but its because looking at your pictures and stuff i am starting to like paper money to) Anyway, normaly i was going to start a collection of civil war tokens next to the collection of coins. Because it is like **** to find CWT's i am starting to think to abandon that tough and maybe start to collect where the coins stop => notes I came up with some problems about this tough. -When i look on ebay, the most notes i come across are fakes (one million dollar bills and stuff like that) so i am propably looking for the wrong things. -I have seen bills with description 1935 A, 1935 B, 1935 C,.... Are those letters like the mintmark on coins? all info is welcome
koen: Just like coins, buy the book first and determine what you want to collect. Look at things like price history, auctions www.ha.com Small Size US Currency, Large Size Currency, Fractionals, Civil War Currency.. the list goes on and on. Study and decide and then start your collection. Paper money is issued in Series...it changes only if a major design change occurs or if Treasury Officials change as in a new President appoints a new Sec of Treasury....things like that. You will see as an Example Fed Reserve Notes Series 1934, 1934A, 1934B 1934C and 1934D. Each of the notes have a significant change that occured. Whereas coins are dated every year...year after year.
If I had known that, I would have sent you one of my old "Black Books" on paper money. The values wouldn't have been accurate, but at least you would have had a complete list of all of the paper currency issued by the US. I have just one favor to ask of you, Koen. Please don't start collecting Rolex watches. Chris
haha, i wont So there is a book like the red book, but then its called the black book? Been browsing a bit, looks like there are lots of difrences in only $1 notes. that looks like a good start. But first i am going to look for more info. Hope you guys can help me with taht a bit (google is not always my best friend)
i had the same thought over the last few days about collecting notes. in some ways, i think collecting notes is a better history lesson, because it gives you some great insights about how us monetary policy has changed over time. coins gives you nice info about consumer purchasing power and some facts about industrialization, but the story of us paper money is even more historically significant. i myself only have a few really neat us notes, including a hawaiian frn from wwii. i need to, at the very least, add a gold cert, a federal reserve banknote, a national bank note, and a 500 and a 1000.
Here is a good one for small size US Notes...there are many books to choose from. My Submariner is slated for my son AJ one day into the future..lol
thank you, the book is ordered now Meanwhile i found out the letters i was talking about earlyer are indeed like mintmarks Also a whole lot of other stuff about what is where on the note, and what it meens. I think that info is accurate, anyone care to confirm that for me? http://www.ronscurrency.com/ronef.htm
tip for searching ebay, adding -- before a word you want to omit at the end of your search takes it out of the results. For example you want to search for gold but want to weed out all the crap, search for, gold --flake --copy, etc. That should help filter out some of that junk!
apparently there are 2 notes comming my way allready: 1963 Barr $1 and a 1976 $2 (those two and some nice coins) => thank you lincolncent Will be a nice start for the note collection. I also found a $1 silver ceritificates 1957 blue seal series that is comming my way. (paid $1 for it with free shipping )
Just for fun, go to Heritage Auctions (archived sales) under currency and spend a few days checking out what's out there. You'll drool and drool.
If you spend enough money with Heritage, they have a payment plan option to work it off... :devil: But in all seriousness, you can find very many things there that you can feel secure about buying, with no hassles or shady deals to tread about cautiously with like with eBay sales. Another site that has 'some' US currency auctions, no where near the amount and caliber of Heritage is Teletrade. You might find it suits a smaller budget. Truth be told, your sources for finding notes will lead you to some interesting dealers, even just individuals, if not even from forum members. You don't have to deal with eBay and if you can't afford the big auction houses, try checking out the BST on various numismatic forums, such as Collectors Corner, for starters. There are dealers selling there too, but you may find things from individuals too. BTW, I use the book you ordered from Rick's suggestion above, as well as another. I go between the books and like the layout of information in this book: A Guide Book of United States Paper Money (Official Red Books) by Arthur L. Friedberg & Ira S. Friedberg Now, with US notes mentioned, just wait until you find some world currency that woos you... There is a bevy of notes (and books) out there waiting to be discovered and collected.
nah, dont want to wait for other world currency there is something about US currency that atracts me, cant realy say what, but for some reason i love it. (I may be Belgian, but i wish i wasnt ...) I even hang out a US flag on the 4th of july (or i would do it if my wife does not always stop me in time ) About the books. I also found this one Not that i am realy intrested in errors, but hey, its always handy to know when you have an error that you can find something about it.
