Paper Money: New Acquisitions

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Today's new pickup is this well traveled $2 obsolete from the Rhode Island Central Bank. Like deuces of course, collectible denomination common in obsoletes, and this note has a nice overall look, the guy with the rake in the center vignette is rockin' that open shirt look showing that the rake and plow may say business but he's ready to get DOWN to business and get you out of your pretty bonnet and shapeless cotton dress...

 

Couple of new ones, radar, of course.
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A few more for your viewing pleasure
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Today's new pickup is an interesting note, this likely spurious $5 from Merchants' Bank in Massachusetts. Many spurious issues have many examples or are based on known issues, this one is only hinted at and there aren't any in the Heritage archives, so regardless, very interesting.

 

Those Honduras notes are gorgeous, and not just because they're radar bills.

 

In my never-ending quest to find notes that don't look like the other notes in my collection I ran across this one and had to get it.. I really like it because the layout is kind of unique not similar to anything else I have

 

Cool note @Skippy Topaz ....is the date 1855 ?

 

It is, it says January 1, 1855

 

Beautiful note, Skippy! I've got a stock certificate that's a bookend to it:

 

Pleasant surprise on this recent eBay pickup, back from PMG today.


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Nice! I really love the vignette Gimme some Maidens (or Eagles) any day!!

 

Man I would SWEAR I have that same note skippy but damned if I can't find it in my inventory program. I even looked through the ridiculoud unscanned stack, not there, but I would have sworn I had one. Really like the layout and printed back which is what attracted me to it...

Oh well, a note that I DO have is this new pickup, a sharp 1941 one pound note from the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. I do like the squarish notes from the UK and this is a nice note in nice condition from the war era. Dated the same day Kaiser Wilhelm II died...

 

Here's a low VF $10 gold note with surprisingly white paper for the grade. The seller stated in the listing that it has been "stored in a smoke free environment". I thought that was a bit strange, but after seeing the note perhaps that is why it hasn't darkened. I've noticed a lot of paper tone/color variation in large size notes. Was there variation in paper color when they were printed or was all of the paper bright white when it came off the press?

 

A 100 ruble note issued to commemorate the Crimea becoming part of the Russian Federation.

 

Today's new pickup is this very early Vermont obsolete remainder from the Bank of Windsor. The style of these early obsoletes is typical of the time, no vignettes just alot of engraving that was meant to be fancy and hard to replicate. Alas, they didn't understand how human vision works, the intricacy works well for highly technical forensic examination to find a fake, but for "regular folks" it all looks like a mess...

 

The new 200 Sheqel note for my foreign collection

 

Just got this one in today, very tough in this grade

 

Forgot the back, here you go

 

Today's new pickup is this $10 obsolete from the prolific state of South Carolina, the State Bank thereof... nice big vignette with sailing ships, everyone likes ships, or trains, let's face it. Red overprint and nice colorful sigs make this an all around pleasing note...