Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Congrats on the nice note. It's a great find. My colonial set is in a similar situation: I've three left to get - New Hampshire, South Carolina and Georgia. It's a lot tougher to get the last three (affordability-wise) than I at first expected. Good luck with your last two!

 

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Well they're no colonial issues, but I'm brand new to collecting paper and this is my very first purchase, aside from some 1935 $1's that came in a coin collection I acquired. I love these old notes! These came with an 1899 as well but my darn camera battery ran out

 

I hoping the writing is on the holders and not the notes.

 

Yes they are on the outside of the sleeves, which will be replaced

 

Dave - you collecting all thirteen for any particular year? I am going for 1776 plus a colonial from that year (and a Fugio note, a good example with the great reverse with the interlocking rings).

rsand - Way to go, post the other 1899 (your Black Eagle is 1899 so not sure which other 1899 note you picked up...)

Which brings me to my latest arrival today - I got no mail today, but did get this one package, seems like the USPS has started the nothing but packages on Saturday bit. Anyways, I am going to spring something new here - my first Great Britain note. In that most beautiful foreign currency thread that includes now mostly not beautiful currency, someone posted this note, and when I saw it, I knew I had to have one. What a great design this is, front and back. Missed out on a few of these as I felt out the market, just glad I got a real nice example at a decent price. Behold, Excalibur!

 

I'm not going for any particular year, but I wanted them to be true colonial notes, and most are before the hostilities began in ernest. I did make sure to get some from 1776 just because - well, ya' gotta' have that year, right!? I have a couple that are later, but the price was right, so... I got them. Like you, I want a great note for a continental. A Fugio would be great, but I'll have to see when the time comes. Right now I'm just saving and waiting, trying to be patient, but it's hard. I think I'll likely have to go with a hole cancelled note on the New Hampshire note, and even then it will be expensive. The last three are, for me anyway, each a lot of money, and I do keep my collection on a pretty strict monthly budget, cause I could easily be in trouble otherwise. So I'm in for the long haul on these, but in the long awaited end it will be worth it, though.

 

I actually have my Fugio and Continental - I'll see about posting them soon.

Here's a new pickup before I hit you with a couple real nice Greek pickups. Sometimes you just get a note because you like it, or because you have Currency Acquisition Disorder, like me. Seemed nice at a nice price, Richmond is one of the more infrequent districts, and I need, need, need...

 

I think you have a classic case of Lime Disease.

Your last acquisition is a new symptom however. It's not lime enough.

 

If it was lime then no explanation is necessary - I am compelled to acquire all lime notes within my grasp. Alas, this is the blue green seal...

My next new pickup took a while to get but I am glad I waited and got the right example, this 1927 50 Drachma note is uncommon but you will usually see one listed on eBay at any time. The key is to get one that doesn't look like a dishrag, and that is far rarer. One nice thing about this old Greek notes is they often integrate engravings of older Greek coins - you get two, two, TWO collectibles in one!

Got this at a tremendous price and it's got great face up and snappy paper in hand. Very pleased...

 

Here's my other Greek pickup, this is a fractional One Drachma from 1924 in pretty darn nice condition... I am now gunning for it's mate, the Two Drachma from the same date.

 

I got one for you paperboys. I sold some scrap aluminum today and mixed into the cash I was paid for it was a nice crisp awkward looking $2 bill. I've only received these a couple times from circulation as change so I thought I'd post it here in the paper section

 

My latest is a Fr.88, $5 United States Note, series 1907 (dist.1915 through 1919) with signatures of Teehee/Burke and nicknamed "WoodChopper" for the center vignette. It may not show well by the scan, but the red seal and serial numbers really stand out on this note.

 

Nice pickup Steve, I myself am on the hunt for an Elliot Burke FR89 in high grade to complete my 1-2-5 Elliot Burke frame... got the 1 and the 2...

Though I have to say, I think the Woodchoppers are one of the most overvalued notes based on the quantity that exist. The Speelman White are as common as Woods White FR 238's but go for over triple in the same condition.

Today's pickup is my hanger on pickup - I have tons of notes inbound but they are all coming from overseas and so I can't greedily watch my tracking information, just have to cross my fingers that today is the day... and tomorrow too. Anyways, this is a 1975 50 Piastres from Egypt, a decent design bold and in great condition. The front is yet another mosque - we get it Egypt, you were conquered by Arabs who forced you to convert, get over it now - the back is a nice engraving of the statue of Ramses II. Beware, the mummy strikes!!!

 

Well, I didn't get any of my pending overseas arrivals, but I did get a minor upgrade for this note, a 1934-A $20 New York star. A solid mid VF, my old note was a VF but had some teller stamp on the face, still liked it but this note is a bit of an overall upgrade, so I am thankful to get it.

 

And so the mailman arrived bearing gifts from overseas. This first note might be one of the toughest I have ever gotten, not because it is altogether that rare, it's uncommon but there is usually one or two listed on theBay, but because I was the first underbidder on this note well over a dozen times, once by two cents and once by twenty four cents. Few notes have ever evaded me as much as this one did.

But now I have it. It's a rarer issue, though not tremendously rare. This note was the note originally designed to be released in 1939 as shown below. However, they were never released, and were overprinted at a higher denomination (what is the Greek word for inflation?) instead. The overprint is the far more common variety. The notes are otherwise identical, with a couple Downs looking Greek girls on the front, and the famous Amphipolis lion statue on the reverse.





For reference, here is my copy of the overprinted version:

 

My other new Greek arrival (and yes, there will be more, several, because, well, I keep buying them) is a 500 Drachma issue and was a deliberate upgrade of this note. I just really like the design, not sure why but it's just one of my faves, love the coin detail and the overall engraving. This note is a "sort of" fractional, one of three that are relatively large denomination but still the smallest at the time and were replaced by coins. They are notably larger than most fractionals, about 2/3 the size of a normal sized note. I really wanted a nice uncirculated example, and I got one...

 

Well this was a mighty fruitful weekend of auctions, which means next week ought to be pretty good. This last new pickup from Saturday's mail is a 10 Piastres note from Egypt. I wish I knew a little more about this note, other than the Temple of Philae is on the front, and it has really tiny anti counterfeit text in red on the reverse, as well as watermarked paper throughout in Arabic. Not sure how this note was issued and from what authority, it does say Survey of Egypt and it was during British colonial rule (you can tell that always from the presence of Western Arabic Numerals on the serial, top left, and Arabic Arabic numerals, bottom right - yep those are the same number!), but it doesn't mention either the Central Bank or National Bank of Egypt. My wife really likes the coloring on the front of this note, not sure why it caught her eye but it did, and she has good taste, especially in men, so I cannot dispute her...

 

The issuing agency is the Government of Egypt. In many countries, the government has the authority to issue money up to a certain denomination and the central bank issues higher denominations. As an example, the Government of India could only issue one rupee notes. The Reserve Bank of India issued higher denominations.

Survey of Egypt is the printer.

 

My latest addition is an almost perfect 1891-1899 5 peso remainder from Costa Rica. The Lion has always been a favorite of mine. I lost out on a great example of the 10 peso




Note: there is a slight yellow background behind the notes.