Paper Money: New Acquisitions

The bills could go anywhere from $60 to $250, depending on who wants them.

 

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Thanks, one more newbie question but what is the best way to see who wants them? eBay or are there other routes I should explore. Again, thanks!

 

Maybe you could sell them to someone who specializes in fancy serial numbered notes.

 

Taken from a cell phone

 

I would like 61
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Low serials numbers are to get. Hang on to them. Go back to the bank and ask for me. The value increases with consecutive numbers.

 

Let's post a new pickup shall we? If you liked the last Washtenaw note, you'll like this one as well - a $3 from the same bank. This remainder is in my favorite denomination - $3 is weird and rare, and I like it... we have an eagle on the front, and those really need three dimensional cameos that look cool...

 

Finally, I've been trying to find this $5 Virginia Treasury Note in a circulated grade at a fair price for quite some time!

 

Numerical FRN's are my favorite notes, and the 1928a $10's seem to be tough in circulated grades.

 

I like that $5 Mitch, good design elements - though the central engraving is a little...different... the rest of the design elements appear on other notes of the time... the green pops for sure.

Today's new pickup is another obsolete, this one a well worn $5 from the Bank of the State of Georgia. A nice rarity for obsoletes, this has a printed reverse, and even better, it's a big Lazy 5, with the word also embedded in the number. Wish it was higher grade but it'll do for now...

 

Today's new pickup is a snazzy $10 from Dallas with Burke Houstin signature combo - I think it's Houstin, and not Houston at least... nice color on the back and good paper altogether. Jackson looks like he's high on absinthe here...

 

Today's new pickup is a $5 Berks County Bank obsolete remainder from the great state of Pennsylvania. Alot going on with this note design - mainly to inform you it's five dollars - 5, FIVE, five, here there and everywhere. I count at least 10 different places it's telling me it's 5. So high five...

 

These are a small part of a collection I just bought. The star note is worn and stained but a nice old star. Too bad about the condition on the Mexican 10 Peso's...

 

A nice $20 Dallas star, 1963. I'm not a collector of these "modern" notes, but I couldn't pass this up!


Oh, and the UL corner is still intact.

 

I lived in the great city of Pittsburgh for 9 long and tiresome years, and with bitter remembrance I purchased this note, which revived memories of the die hard
Steeler fans I encountered there: Jaundiced, used, abused, sweat-soaked, and stinking. Enjoy!

 

Those notes were in a tellers bank drawer. They are long gone.

 

Regardless of the $5 note, the Steeler fan description was pure GOLD...

Speaking of fives, today's new pickup is one that I just had to have, because, well, LIME.

 

Although I'm really hesitant to post anything like this on this website, I'll do it this once. Here's a little write up I did a while back on this one. Obsolete currency notes are so much more than just pretty pictures, there is excellent history behind many of the institutions and signers of them..........

State of Virginia
March 13 1862
John McCally Bennett (JM Bennett) (bottom left)
John Strother Calvert (JS Calvert) (bottom right)

Bennett (1816-1887) is pictured in the center of this currency note that he also signed. He was deputy sheriff of Lewis County, VA (later WV) from 1836-38 and was the 1st mayor of Weston, VA (WV) in 1846. He served in the VA General Assembly from 1852-53 and was at one time also President of the Exchange Bank of VA at Weston as well as the Weston and Buckhannon Railroad. In 1857, Gov. Henry Wise named him Auditor of Public Accounts for the state of VA and he served in this capacity until Richmond fell. Bennett's wife was 2nd cousin to Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson and Jackson was a lifelong intimate friend and protege of his. Bennett was instrumental in securing Jackson's cadetship to West Point as well as his appointment as Brigadier General in the CSA Army. During the war, Jackson wrote many letters to Bennett, many surviving as Jackson's account of various battles and situations. After the war, Bennett served as West Virginia State Senator from 1872-76.

Calvert (1806-1870) was the State Treasurer of VA from 1857 until the evacuation of Richmond and again from 1866 until 1868. He was member of the VA House of Delegates from 1850-51 and 1855-56. He was ceremoniously named Major of the 10th VA regiment during the war. Calvert was killed in the collapse of the state capital in 1870. He was a great grandson of the founder of Maryland and the Maryland state flag bears his family's coat of arms.

 

Today's new pickup is a nice obsolete from Georgia, this one a $10 from The Mechanics Bank. Always like seeing the restless, or in this case resting, natives on currency notes, and the eagle in middle says Mmmmmmerica... also features those engraved 3D cameos I like.

 

Not a coin collector but I do love coin shows, recently acquired at one: