Post your UGLY notes

I've acquired some well worn notes in my day, here are a couple of small-size Nationals that have seen better days.
Post photos of your ugliest notes you're proud to own.

 

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I don't have my draft notice from 1964 anymore, sorry

 

Lovely, lovely!
The dark spots are tape, and I actually managed to sell this bill later on ebay.

 

Why would some one buy it?

 

To this day still one of my favorites.

 

Here comes the ug... This is probably the lowest condition of this FR#...



I got this one for face...

 

I'm curious to see what the $10 would grade as. Other than the burns, the paper is in decent quality. Fair 2 Net PPQ?

Can a Net/PPQ grade even exist?

Reminds me of the DB Cooper notes:

 

I don't collect notes, but I saved this from the mix after cashing my check at the local TD Bank (about 3 months ago). First silver cerificate that I've picked up in quite awhile, and well circulated.

 

This pair of "no motto" $1 silver certificates surfaced at my bank's local branch. They'd grade at the very low end of the scale, I'd reckon.

 

Here's a well worn WWII Emergency issue note

 

Winner,winner, chicken dinner.

 

I don't think so Timewarp, Steve's are much "nicer".

Bruce

 

The same for me



But...US notes only, or also World notes?

petronius :smile

 

Ugly World notes are always welcome !

 

Not really a "pretty" note per-say, but USA colonials usually never were in the first place. They were merely functional instruments of payment - the right of which the colonies to issue them in the first place would become one of the sparks for the American Revolution - the ability of individual colonies to sustain their finances independent of British control marked the first instance of dissension with the Crown.

An early printer in Philadelphia, Mr. Benjamin Franklin, was appointed by the Pennsylvania colony to print their notes. In addition the colony of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware - then still nominally part of Pennsylvania engaged Mr. Franklin to print their financial instruments beginning in 1739.



This note is a Pound note or 20/- Twenty Shillings from 1746. As noted it is not pretty. However, as opposed to the later 1750s and 1760s notes with the imprint of Mr. Franklin that were printed by his associate David Hall, these notes were printed in Mr. Franklin's shop whence he was the sole proprietor of said business. During the decade of the 1750s and early 1760s Benjamin Franklin was living in London and he didn't handle anything printed in his Philadelphia office.

It is rough, but it is rare and historical.

 

Ah, ok :thumb:

5 Ukrainian karbowanez, German occupation WWII





petronius :smile

 

heres more http://www.johnnyburrito.com/uglymoney.htm

 

Would have been a lovely note, but it was a stolen design from a country the Nazis stole:



The swastikas are really the ugliest part of the note IMHO.

The Austrian lady was attractive though:

 

Here's a Burke/Glass $20 that has seen better days....



The back looks worse.

 

Not sure what this Fractional may have previously been used for......