Paper Money: New Acquisitions

This one belongs to my son. His girlfriend's mom got it for him. He asked me to keep it for him along with the rest of our collection. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get the wrinkles out of it? I used a couple books and pressed a bill flat before but I dont know what to use for a sheet..

 

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Pressing a note between books to flatten out bc y he r cd wrinkles is almost as bad as ironing the bill. Either way, it shows signs of having wrinkles and the flattering is not a form of damage to the paper money. Always best to leave it as found.

 

Why is it bad?

 

Once paper money has a crease you can’t get rid of it. It will always be there. It might look better but when you do something to flatten the crease that creates damage to the note. It’s already damaged from the crease but it’s considered more damage.
Trying to get rid of a crease in paper money is like cleaning a coin to make it look better.

 

Had to pick up some 2004 Dollars from Suriname (the first 3 are graded & the last 2 are not):

 

They look similar to some other world banknotes I've seen. Is there a private company(s) that makes modern banknotes for other countries? I know I've seen "The American Banknote Company" on some older foreign bills.

 

I don't worry about light pressing like putting a few books on something for a few weeks, I do that with anything I save from circulation. You can go overboard of course, i.e. literally ironing a note would also remove wrinkles but would be considered damage, but I count a few books as 'normal circulation wear'

 

-Yes (printers make banknotes for other countries all the time). It was the CBN printers for the 2004, 2006 & 2009 Suriname first dollars (SRD). The later dates (2006/2009) are quite tough to obtain. Check out the Numista entry for the $10.00: shows a NRI of 75 (which isn't too shabby for such a recent release). Wiki explains a little of what happened with these & I imagine that the delay (+ preference for the earlier Gulden with birds) may have hampered collectors to keep these. TDLR or DeLaRue makes a lot of notes for other countries & the Australian co that makes polymer is the same.

 

Just got this back from being placed in a new holder. It was in a PCGS holder before. It took a few months but I am pleased as it was upgraded from a 15 to a 20.




These next two notes will appear under my Christmas tree as they are both on a long term lay-a-way. I have looked for a long time to find a NB $1 note that didn't look like it had been folded away in someone's wallet for 100 years.





I have been working a set of one dollar large size notes. This is the first of the two Silver Certificate Martha Washington $1 bills that I need for the set.

 

Very nice additions to your growing collection.

 

Nice. I may have to look for one of those.

 

+1
Older Mexican series are just stunning to look at. I'm seeing the wisdom of @Chris B outlook on @dwhiz latest additions. Fantastic trio @Tall Paul (great eye appeal).

 

Here are a couple of obsolete bank notes that I just added.





A suite of remainders that have a new home.

 

Nice examples

 

+1
Fantastic obsoletes & very attractive set of remainders @Tall Paul !!!

 

This Martha note is last note that I needed for a suite of one dollar large note silver certificates. I wish the PMG photos were not so washed out. Anyway, the next challenge in the suite of one dollar large size notes will be the Legal Tender series. Onward and upward.

 

-Another big note with big eye appeal. I find these VF-EF notes, which show like they're a grade higher, hit all the bells & whistles for us budget-minded collectors. Great add!

I picked up a few more world notes:
a 1950 10 Pesos from Argentina. (Dealer's images & contrast too high):



And a "Sully" note from 1941 France. Apparently, these are pretty common:


And here's another note printed in Canada by the BNA co in 2000 for the Dominican Republic. This 100 Pesos (P-167) was a short run too:
(TDLR prints it in 2001 & then the design changes from 2002 onward). The last 2 notes came from a dealer across the pond. Only got front images for stock. She gave me a low # note for the DR 100 Pesos (#98 or something like that) which was nice!

Found the picture of the 100 Francs reverse (chap featured is the reason for the Sully nickname):