Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Your posts have encouraged me to do more research on these notes. It looks like yours both have the Shipov signature which is by far the most common. Based on the serial numbers (VT and OS blocks) it appears that both were issued under the Czar. The same designs continued to be issued under the Provisional Government and later the Bolsheviks.

Signature dates are as follows:
Shipov 1914-1917
Konshin 1910-1914
Timashev 1903-1909
Pleske 1894-1903

Not surprisingly the earlier signatures are worth more. I would like to get some of those, as it would be interesting to have ones that served as hard currency in peacetime before they lost their value.

 

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That certainly is pretty neat. I like knowing how much buying power a note had when it was first being used.

There's nothing like holding in my hand something that had an equivalent buying power of several thousand US dollars, that I bought for just a few dollars!

 

Here's a Russian note from after the revolution!

There is a marked decline in engraving quality from the ones dated during the Empire period - I wonder why...
Perhaps something about the Communists ruining everything

 

That one was issued in Rostov (southern Russia) during the Civil War by White (non-Communist) Russians who were fighting the Bolsheviks. Definitely lower quality than Imperial notes but not too bad considering it was a regional issue.

 

If you separate the multiple bills in the folder with some wax or parchment paper you should be OK.




edit: Goofy mistake not paying attention to page numbers. Replying to a page 1 post and ending up on page 304. LOL @ Me I guess.

 

Found this lying about; serial number higher than previously seen (E17356591A) Small Size book page 166

 

Here's another civil-war issue. Probably a provincial thing as well.

I don't know the exchange rate, but I would imagine some heavy inflation was going, with a high 1,000 ruble denomination.

The quality of engraving is significantly worse than the previous White Russian note. Well, guess they got better things to worry about during a civil war...

 

Issued by the Armed Forces High Command in Southern Russia. Also from the White Russian side. Your previous post is also from the south as Rostov is a southern city. But this one doesn’t reference that city specifically.

Even without reading the text a note can be identified as White by the 2 headed eagle which was not used by the Reds as it is an imperial symbol.

 

The lime green $10,s are one of my favorites

 

Today's new pickup is another Government of Texas note, this one the 1837 $10 design. Alas, the serial has long since faded on this note, and the signatures are soon to follow but can still barely be made out. Still a quality example in collectible grade. Unlike later notes, these last two GoT notes are uniface - only later would under the Republic of Texas you get the popular lone star reverse on the notes...

 

Just curious on the value ?

 

Always did like the artwork on the Russia notes;

 

Hey mpc, Texas notes have gone up alot recently, I'd say notes like this are usually in the 200-300 range, give or take how anxious the buyer is...

Today's new pickup is this uncommon if not quite rare $10 Pikeville National Bank note. There are a dozen and a half large notes, but, none have shown up for auction in the last seven years (though several smalls have). Except mine squeaked through. When it comes to collecting nationals for me, I am an opportunity buyer...

 

The series 521 $10 note has a similar reverse !
Now to get top dollar you have to find someone that was
Born there...LOL

 

I'd keep that one for awhile. But that's just me, I can't get enough notes... I'm guessing you aren't selling any of your MPC's/Disney Notes. Is that the case?

BTW: Glad to see you are still here I saw that some people are no longer using Coin Talk. For me it's the best place to get opinions.

Anyway the way I think you feel about Military Pay Certs and the Disney notes, That is the way I feel about all U.S. TENS. I'm pretty sure they will all go to my heirs, cause I can't part with them. Same with my twos.

HAVE A GREAT 2019...

VALPO

 

Today's new pickup is another national note, this from the interestingly named McDowell National Bank of Sharon, Pennsylvania. Now, if your name is Sharon, or McDowell, then this note is for you, and if you are Sharon McDowell, well come on down... I always like a fancifully named bank...

 

Where does he get those wonderful toys?

 

I've never liked Greek notes all that much, but I had to have this one.

Obverse features the face of the Early Classical head of Apollo from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. This massive, 9-foot tall sculpture is originally in marble, and was featured at the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus. This is the temple where the gigantic, 40-foot tall chryselephantine statue of Zeus was originally displayed - we know this statues as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. By the Byzantine period, the statue had been moved to Constantinople, where it was eventually destroyed in a fire.
The rest of the temple was felled by a serious of savage earthquakes that wiped out the entire temple. What was once the home of a World Wonder was reduced to rubble.
Fortunately for us, the devastation of the temple meant that near-complete pediments (East and West), as well as friezes and metopes survive very well, since there were buried under the rubble. The architectural statues were discovered in situ - they were excavated pretty much where they originally stood.
The East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus remains one of the best-preserved pediments of the entire Greek world.


The reverse features the Gymnasium at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia. This is where the athletes would train for the Olympic Games - a temporary ceasefire where many Greek polises would come together for a bit of fun and games before going back to killing each other. The statue is the famous Discobolos (discus-thrower) by Myron. Myron was known as one of the best sculptors of the High Classical period. On the Athenian Acropolis, he had displayed a large bronze bull that was so realistic it was said to come alive every now and then. Unfortunately, exactly zero of Myrons original works survive. However, the Discobolos was so famous and well-known that the Romans copied it in marble to oblivion, making it one of the most common statues of the Classical world.