Wellllll, I just did a quick scan of eBay completed sales and there's really nothing under $50 that's not damaged or extremely worn out.
Thanks for bumping up this old thread. I have not seen it before and it's very informative!
How did I forget this one ... ;) [ATTACH]
I think I'll add a few more images of some of my other specimens for fun. Most of these are by American Bank Note, but the first one is E.A....
This thread needs some love and tonight I happened upon a card in my collection that I hadn't shared. (Well, okay, there are plenty I haven't...
Well, the sad fact is we don't make them at all nowadays. Stocks and bonds are all traded electronically now and certificates are not being...
Muzyck, you might be interested in another thread that focused on the Chinese scenes that ABN produced for various securities and bank notes in...
I got an email today from Clinton Hollins' daughter Deborah to let me know that Hollins Certificates just updated their website! I'm very glad she...
Security-Columbian Bank Note Co. - In 1957, Security and Columbian merged. Following Columbian's established practice, their specimens also lack a...
Columbian Bank Note Co. - Columbian started up in Chicago in 1904 after ABN bought Western Bank Note. Western's former president decided to start...
I've been wanting to scan some of my specimens stocks for a while and I finally got to it tonight. Imho, this is the most intriguing area of my...
Woo hoo, Steve! You got the complete set and the Czech specimen note -- well done! I don't even have that Czech note ... but I'm always on the...
Steve, that is a beautiful uncut sheet. And as to the wheat scrip: Pilot Rock is just 15 minutes south of Pendleton, where I now live. And I can...
This is *not* the same as originally posted auction site. That one I cannot vouch for.
There's a much more interesting -- and totally legit -- auction site of surplus government material. We actually bought a car on this site (had to...
Bacigalupo -- "kiss of the wolf" isn't it? I only know this from John Irving's novel "Last Night in Twisted River."
I have not seen one of these before. If it was a specimen it would be stamped that way. It may have been an empty space among the coupons of a...
I know MPC "lifted" designs from a variety of other products, but my understanding is that they were all from the Bureau of Engraving & Printing....
mpcusa, that note he posted is a series 472, not 461. Paddyman, for easy reference, the first two numbers of the series are the year (1947) and...
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