I tried that with my wife. Bad idea.
Of course I was simplifying. There are all manner of ways, like the lack of the proper impressions that are a tell of the original gumming...
My adopted daughter is Vietnamese. I was aware of the extraordinary beauty of French colonial notes, so I looked for a culturally significant note...
OK. Maybe you like paying four times as much for a note because it was "restored" and slabbed. I do not. As a collector in multiple fields, I'm...
Paper money collectors are fooling themselves if they think there aren't means to alter the condition of a note that are almost undetectable....
My best "circulation" finds are a couple of star note mule/non-mule/mule triplets of $1 FRN's, Series 1981, pulled from packs at the place I worked.
"Label sets", strictly meaning the front and back block labels and the first and last notes of the block, were a niche collecting field in the...
Varieties of Japanese occupation currency intended for many different conquests were issued, often in huge numbers, and often as a form of...
I would like to have an example of every Zimbabwean note issued during the inflationary period. I know of no database that can say what they were.
I can remember times when their face value exceeded their bullion value. That never happened with an ASE.
The BEP prints star notes in such quantities that they are always available to replace defective regular notes. In the past when a series ended,...
There were no Series 1997 $100 note. I made it up. Why? Because I'm mad, mad I tell you, hee hee hah hah hoo hoo...
Hawaii issued dimes, quarters, halves and dollars, at American weights and fineness, one time, in 1883. My father, station in Hawaii at various...
Series 1997 $100 notes were the first to include a bio-activated digital recording chip the size of a pinhead. Every time a note passes through...
Never been a fan of paying the difference between an MS-64 and an MS-65. First, I can't really tell the difference, although I can on a particular...
An error that isn't clearly obvious tends to be worth less than one that is.
Precious metal transactions are not automatically reported to the government, as are wages, dividends and various capital gains. If they so...
That's great. From your posts, you seem a cussed enough bird that when you decide to do something, it gets done. Even if you and your girlfriend...
Check those Series 34 $5 FRNs carefully. There could be a valuable mule or two. Also, if any of the 28 FRNs are series C or D, those are worth...
I post this not to make a political statement or to imply that collectors whose political opinions don't correspond to mine are in any way stupid,...
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