Anyone Up for Posting their Large Size Blue Seals?

I just wanted to say that you guy have some excellent notes and a great start on your collections...Urban, why dont you be the next to start a thread for us to follow on your choice of notes...it should be fun and we shall see a wide range of notes on display I am sure..


For the first time having all my Blue Seals together I will warn you that there are a total of 17 notes (34 face and back images) so be prepared for a long post...it is my hope to one day complete the NY District Sets. You will see a couple of notes from different districts where it was just too good to pass up..yes I am addicted!

Since we are limited to 20 images per post, here are the 1st 17.. the 2nd 17 will follow.

 

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Hope you enjoyed the Blue Seals...


RickieB

 

Lovely notes all.

 

Whoa! I can only imagine the hours and hours of time spent on acquiring those. Gorgeous!

What does the 1250 on the National Currency refer to? Amongst others... I see it on the margins and again in blue on the face.

 

$5: 7612 $10: 1104, $20: 1250

Bank charter number?

 

Wow! Stunning notes, guys, thanks for posting them.

I looked through my collection for large notes with blue seals on them, and didn't find any.... Maybe I need to create a more general thread on notes with animals on them

Dave

 

Krispy..

Yes indeed the Charter numbers..the Large "E" is for East.

Thank you for your kind words folks. If you look at the reverse of the $20 FRN you will see the transportation vignette..look on the right horizion and you will see the Statue of Liberty..this was the first time it was placed upon a Banknote in BEP history..this was published in "Paper Money" a Magazine sent out if you are a member of SPMC..I encourage you to join and take part of the huge library offered to members. Mr. Hessler even writes for this publication.

Enjoy...


RickieB

 

Beautiful notes Rickie thanks for showing them.

 

Wow great notes everyone and I never knew about the Statue of Liberty on that note RickieB. The things you see when you examine notes carefully is stunning!

 

Rickie, the back of this note is so unusual, different from all the rest. What's the story on the rendition of this one? Looks almost like an unfinished engraving to me. I always think of this similar French note when I see it:



Dave

 

Dave :

All I know is that the vignettes Labor, Plenty, America, Peace and Commerce were originally drawn by Kenyon Cox, engraved by G.F.C. Smilie.
From what I have read in Mr. Hesslers Book's this design was supposed to be for all small size currency denominations.
It would be interesting to find out more for sure.

I wish I had more info for you..I can only take what has been written on it at this point.
Seems like you could study for years and years and barely scratch the surface of currencies background knowledge base. It at times could be a daunting task..perhaps the answers lie in the BEP Archives??

I also find that the similarity of these 2 notes is very very cool. What is the history on the French $1000?

RickieB

 

Thanks for the info, Rickie. If putting this on the back of all the currency of the time means all those others wouldn't have seen the light of day, I'm glad they put it back in the file cabinet! It's nice, but not at the cost of those others!

The French note (that's the back) was drawn by Charles Walhain and engraved by Deloche. It was released in 1927 on a very fast track, as France was having a lot of trouble with counterfeits of its previous "Rose et Bleu" high denomination notes. So Walhain put this one together quickly. He was taken to task by his peers for the poor quality of the artwork, but one thing that did come out of it was a trend in French notes away from pure allegorical characters on banknotes, to putting more realistic characters on them. While the face is fairly traditional in its content, the back of the note shows Francois Aragos (astronomer) and Louis Pasteur on it, as well as a blacksmith.

Dave

 

Here are a couple of mine. Enjoy.

 

Thanks Rusty,I'm still missing the $100.Rickie posted a beauty,such an unusual back, Someday I'll find one in a 30/35 grade and I'll be happy with that. Sort of the way I used to collect coins by type rather then every example of the $100 !I think that's what most of us are doing now with this economy.

 

Urban,those Large Size FRN note backs are beautiful.thanks for showing them.Why can't we produce the art of the past on our new currency ?

 

Nice notes everyone! Glad to see that Boat note got rescanned RickieB, it is a beauty!

 

A better image of my bill above



This bill is signed by John Burke Treasurer of the US and Houston B. Teehee , Register of the Treasury. This dates the bill between March 1915 and Nov 1919. It’s the dollar of the day of my mother’s birth and of World War I.

 

LostBob,how cool is that your Mother's B-Day & WW1!! ... nice Note also !

 

Drool....

I want one so bad.. I have been looking for just the right one for my First..

( I think my Prom date said the same thing once... LOL)

 

As you'd expect from me, this one's more about the serial number than the grade:



I think it's neat that the 1899 $1 SC is the only series ever to use a Z..Z serial block. Since the letter Z isn't used at all any more on modern notes, this just looks funny somehow....

(I didn't bother scanning the back; it's in even worse shape.... )