I added several new countries to the site today - Australia, Azerbaijan, Guyana, Tanzania and Yemen. I do have notes for them all, and several had notes added to already today Australia - Added 2 World Expo 1988 notes (not legal currency, but it was for the event) Azerbaijan - Added P-13b, P-17b, P-18b and P-19b Guyana - Added a note not yet listed in Krause Philippines - Added P-143b. The pick catalog lists this notes as a type 3 seal. From what i can tell, its a type 2. What do you think? Type 2 and type 3 are very similar. United States - Silver Certificate - Added an upgrade to an existing Fr-238. Special thanks to you, Victor, for the very generous Fr-238 donation !!!
Thanks Ruben. I always wanted it to be as much about the history as it is about the coins and currency i post
Daggarjon.... Everytime I look at your site I get more impressed with your collection of notes from around the world! With your and De Orcs collection plus a few others would be on heck of an exhibit to see in person! Nice job!! RickieB
I see you have none from Portugal. If you want I can get you some when I go back there. By the way, do you collect euro notes?
i do collect Euro notes, but i cant scan them. I am in the middle of a legal dispute with epson about their not publicly dislosing that there scanners wont scan. If they build a product to do funtion A, and then write programming to disable the product from perfroming function A... then it should be fully disclosed at the POS. So, since they did not fully disclose that their scanners are programed NOT to scan currency (although they will scan most older notes) then they are partially liable for selling a product that wont do what is advertised. I have been in cantact with them several times lately and should have some legal infomation from their legal department being sent over to me. We will see how that goes. Anyhoot... the lone Eruo note i have is a 2002 $5 note - i know, wrong symbol lol. Its got a triumphant arch on 1 side, and an roman aqua duct on the other side. Its tough for me to collect the euro because of its value to the US dollar. My budget is too small, so its easier for me to collect notes from countries that are valued at a lot less With Portugal now using the Euro, i would be limited to the older notes prior to them joining the eurozone. Looking int he krause books, there does seem to be alot of notes that would fall in my price range... and alot that would be far outside of it Take a look at P-180... there is P-180a,b,c,d,e,f, and g.... a has 8 sig varieties, b has 6 c has 6, d has 5, e has 7, f has 6 and lastly g has 5... thats a total of 43 notes to collect them all.. and thats just that one pick # thats a heck of a challenge because all the notes from that time period are like that... maybe i would be better off to collect by type at that point stick to the whole Pick #'s and forget the others... at least for the time being
Your going to lose. They are protected under the law. In addition, I believe that most printers wont print them any more. Try putting a buzy background behind the bill and see if that works. Ruben
I never heard about this kind of thing. I guess it makes sense. But for sure there is no law against taking photographs of bills. Right? I have no clue about all that stuff you said about numbers and letters. I'm a metal guy, myself What I do know is that bills, unlike coins, have both sides equal on every country. The only difference is that each country has a different letter going in front of the serial number. The largest value we had in Portugal was 10,000 escudos, which would be about 50 euros. Now if you wanna collect these in mint state, it gets kinda steep very soon even if you collect by type. Now, there's this old man back there who sells old books, but decades ago he was a coin dealer. I got very good deals on some leftover coins he had around that he cared little for. One day I noticed he has a bunch of mint state notes from the 80's. I don't think they are expensive at all. If I recall correctly, they were mostly 20 and 100 escudos notes (bocage and fernando pessoa, if that means anything to you).
what law do you think protects them? oh, and when i said legal dispute, i didnt mean a court case in the court system.... i only meant i am in contct with their legal people about what they are doing. I dont have much of a problem with printers not printing currency, but even that is legal to do if the law is followed. My only gripe is that Epson is limiting my access to legal activities...its not up to them to do that.
Most if not all of the new scanners and printers have safeguards that prevent you from scanning currency. You can fight Epson, HP, etc. but you are going to lose. Your answer to scanning is to buy an old scanner. I have one I use, and another held in reserve.
There are stories like that in most every country that has switched its currency.... you can always find this guy or girl who has piles of the older notes and they care little for them. If you can find them, you can usually get some great deals on some great coins and notes. Unfortunately, i travel very little to other countries outside the US and canada lol
