Why do you collect paper money?

I'm on a roll tonight folks what can I say?

SO Why do you collect paper money? What got you started? Please share with the class.

I will later.

clembo

 

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Same reason that I collect coins, their history interests me.

 

I won RickieB paper money contest, now its like a drug. The first hit was free, now I'm hooked. Don't have to worry about corrsion. The designs. I like the fact that a piece of paper can/has remained unbent for such a long period of time. Radars, ladders,etc. The designs

 

well for me working at a bank kinda started it all. i was working there for well over a year before i got into collecting. now its one of my main "uh hum" addictions. i also feel paper currency is gaining some steam. i want to hoard now before prices start to skyrocket as old notes begin to dry up. even though the actual dollar isnt looking that great

 

I collect radars and repeaters. Where I work, there is a lot of currency that comes in and I have a fresh supply to go through everyday. It's the same addiction as coin roll hunting. Whatever I find I get at face value and I've put together a pretty decent collection.

 

Dan, as you know it all started for me by my son's interest in Trains!
When he was 2-4 years old he wanted to do nothing but play with trains, trains and more trains!
I found a few coins with trains on them and of course the item you sent him a while back as well. I was at the Bi-Annual Boston Coin Show and saw the Large Size $20 Frederal Reserve Note Blue Seal, currently in my collection featuring the "Transportation Theme on it's Reverse", that was it for me. That note happen to be from New York and I thought it would be cool to at least build a denomination set of the Series 1914 Blue Seal Notes for AJ. Have you seen the prices for the $50 and $100 notes from this Series in CHCU???

Well a little reading and research ignighted the flame for what has become the "New York Collection" and my insane idea of obtaining an example of every Small Size FRN from 1928 to Current including stars in AU and above took it first breath 3years ago!

Since that time I have learned alot from a few select Dealers, this Fourm and many many many hours of research. My wife often say's that I am Married to the research..LOL She knows I love Science and Paper Money Collecting is indeed a Science!
The inclusion of Large Size Notes followed the collection and the History behind them as well as the scarcity of some of the notes has intrigued me to a higher vibration! The Fractionals alone I spent 1 year reading, studying and buying the 4th and 5th Issues of the wonderful little notes from the Civil War era of our History!
Just the past 2 years I have been adding Rare Large Size notes that runs from 1K to 5K per note and let me say that this puts a serious cramp into the collection budget!
I am fortunate that I have the means and the profession to support such a hobby, for the $$$$$ add up quickly and the obsession for more is a chemical addiction of the neuronic synapse!! :bigeyes:

It has always been for my Son for the day he needs me and I am no longer with him!

Hope I made it some what interesting with this reply!

Go Noost go!! Glad to have you in our Ranks!!!


Regards to all...


RickieB

 

I started collecting world notes about 1.5 years ago because I liked the designs on a lot of them. At first collecting US notes didn't interest me that much. Then I started reading up on them and seeing the different small sized notes like radars, repeaters, web notes and star notes. I then came up with the "bright idea" - let's see if I can pull out of circulated ones a full block set of each year that ones have been printed. I have made a good in road on that one, but I still go thru a lot of ones every couple of weeks.

I then got ahold of a couple of Large notes and the rest is history. I am scrimping and saving to get the large size notes I can afford to add to the collection. Some times I wonder if I need to label this as an "addiction".

I have also added some fractionals, MPC and recently a couple of Chicago World's Fair tickets to the collection......


Smaugy

 

I just started to find a interest in paper money. The history and the thrill of the hunt is the reason for me. Hey what is the best way to find these. Go to the bank and buy a bunch of bills and search. I also have a great lady at the bank who hold really cool coins/bills for me. I have three bills two that my father gave me a 1898 series one dollar bill and a 1915 series $5 dollar bill and the new one that the lady at the bank gave me a 1950 E. Also my dad gave me before he passed away a uncut sheet of $1 bills from 1988.. Question what are radars,ladders and repeaters. I guess the repeaters are same numbers that repeat themselfs in the serial number

 

I love not only the history behind some of them but the actual art work that goes into many notes, some of them would not be out of place in a art gallery

 

Because it is money, but more importantly, it is art.



Need I say more?:bigeyes:

 

Had to have this one, the pose of the young woman smelling roses whilst pensively resting her head on her right hand was just too unique:

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Or how about this unusual pose, with her hands interlaced:

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Or an face that takes you to a warm, sunny and tropical paradise:

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Or a face that is the picture of idyllic beauty:

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Or tantalizes you with her Middle Eastern beauty:

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Or makes you wonder of her Iberian charms:

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Or makes you wonder, who really was the inspiration for this famous MPC from ca. 1961:

Pretty obvious, if you know the time...
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Or inspires her native land with her poetry:

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So what inspires you? I have shown a few of what inspire my passion for paper money above.

 

I guess the reason I collect paper money is because I love history and the art that goes with it.