Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Today's new pickup is this Atlanta $2 FRBN Battleship. This was my first battleship pickup so hooray for me, Atlanta is a tougher district on $2's and despite wear it has bold dark ink for the grade. I actually have two more in the unscanned stack now including a dynamite one from Dallas... if I ever get around to scanning them.

 

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I got my annual bonus and was in the mood for buying currency so I couldn’t resist this one...

 

Today's new pickup is this 1929 $50 National from the rare National Bank of Commerce in Dallas. I do collect me some Dallas, and these notes do not come up often, so glad to get it when I did. Only three in the last three years? Gotta get while the getting's good...

 

Nice serial too. Imagine if that 4 was another 0.
Despite the wrinkled condition that battleship note is beautiful.
And KSorbo's $10 Nat Currency (1902?) is incredible.

 

How about a pair of matching radars on two different series.

 

Today's new pickup is this $5 national, from the Southwest National Bank of Dallas... a rare Dallas bank and one that is not easy to get, this note I think is the last one auctioned in the last 7 years that I can find. So, you look past the condition to - when will I get a chance to get another? Yeah, I'll take it and twice on Sunday. Plus it's Dallas no matter what so pleased with the score...

 

All the stuff on this thread are new purchases.

 

Today's new pickup is actually from yesterday, but I didn't hit post... sigh... anyways, it is this gorgeous $5 obsolete from the Phoenix Bank in Georgia. What else can I say, just a beautiful set of engravings, the three dimensional intaglio engraving, large counters with the creepy little cherubs, issued with not much ink burn setting in yet - it's a weener.

 

@MEC2 Nice Phoenix note. Are you getting the new Don Kelly book of Obsolete Currency? It's on my wish list.

 

Two years ago, the BEP rolled these out. They are not sold out and are still available. I checked eBay and found about a dozen sets for sale with prices above the current Money Factory pricing. I’m guessing not all eBay buyers know they can buy them direct from the source.

Texas $2 Step 25th Anniversary Currency Set.

 

Mitch, I thought about obsolete books but I'd probably go for the Bowers releases if I did...

Today's new pickup is this $10 CSA note from the busy year of 1861. This T-24 features the seemingly ubiquitous RMT hunter...like the design of this note, really interesting to see the vastly different engraving qualities among all of the issues early on, this is one of the better designs to my eye...

 

Today's new pickup is this well detailed $3 obsolete from the awesomely named Bank of Ypsilanti in Michigan. Alot of elements on this, my favorite denomination. Our lovely lady at the bottom left sure does seem overdressed for a hard slog at the butter churn... it's the hat that I think goes over the top (as it were).

 

Today's new pickup is this decent little mini-porthole 1899 Silver Certificate. Always a popular design, this has the rarer sigs of Lyons-Treat. Face up on this note is really nice, seems like the handling and folds all showed up on the reverse. Which is fine since the star of this note is always the great design on the front - nobody cares about the reverse, it is in fact one of the blander designs. That's okay, the beautiful front carries the note as it were...

 

Today's new pickup is this very large $20 remainder obsolete from the City of New Orleans Municipality Number One. Really large note with alot going on, almost like a small stock note - these look to be torn out of an issue book perhaps, something like that. The printed back goes the extra mile to have you feel like you've gotten something fancy and valuable in your hand, instead of just a piece of paper...

 

I don't usually collect paper currency, but I got some as a gift today from an old friend who came for a visit. They all came in hard plastic cases.

4 National Park $2 bills.
I had never seen this series before today. Some of the nicest artwork on US bills I have seen in a long time.

 

Well, been away for a week, took a cruise to Alaska, decent fun time (but I gotta say - overrated... still fun though and the whole family went, except the grandbaby, who we missed desperately), and so that means... no new pickups get posted. Well, let's restart the assembly line and post this sharp obsolete new pickup, a $10 from the Bank of the State of South Carolina. South Carolina was pretty prodigious when it came to producing banks and notes, at least this bank had to good sense to use the fine fellows at ABNCo to design this sharp looking note. Great engraving, sharp sigs, and an olive green overprint? Winner...

 

I couldn't not buy this.

 

Today's new pickup is this much tougher denomination $4 obsolete from, once again, the Bank of the State of South Carolina. Is that Fort Sumter on the front? I imagine it is... nice looking design overall, well traveled but all the elements are well represented. A colored overprint protector is a nice touch... am I allowed to say colored on a Confederate state note? Sounds racist...