From "The Story of the American Bank Note Company" here's a great vignette of a lion family. I'm pretty sure this has appeared on a banknote, but...
More follow-up on this topic. I came across some source material from an 1890 story in "Press and Angels American," a weekly paper published in...
Here are the other two $10,000 notes: the reverse of a 1918 FRN and the front of an 1882 gold certificate. Let's see, what would be worth more...
We finally got a nice sunny day here and I happened to come across this image. Seemed to be appropriate...
Wow: someone spent a long time scanning and categorizing! Good resource for research -- I'll bookmark it.
And only three posts since Feb. 6. :( If anyone hears anything please post it.
Somewhere back in the bowels of this thread I remember seeing an image of B81, the 1985 card from the Int'l Paper Money Show. It featured the...
Except perhaps in this instance, National Bank Note and American Bank Note were competitors through most of the 1870s. National and Continental...
If you're working on a budget, but you have champagne taste, I recommend souvenir cards as a starter. These are a fairly inexpensive way to obtain...
Ripley, I don't know how you missed this stunning Zambian note from 1997. :D
But look: ascending font sizes in this serial number, too!
Starting to appreciate the panels, eh, Chris? ;) Here's a tighter close-up of the gypsy girl. I enhanced the midtones in Photoshop to bring up...
Okay here are my scanning experiments on Commemorative Panel CP196 (Metropolitan Opera). The first close-up was originally scanned at 200 dpi, the...
Sounds like the plot for "The Mouse That Roared" !
I have that same vignette of the woman on a Commemorative Panel. Okay: this will be a good experiment. I'll see what it takes to scan without a...
These are nice -- thanks for posting. I think like the 1869 bond best, with conversions to francs, pounds and florins. I do have a few pre-1860...
Really impressive presentation on a topic I was completely unaware of. I wonder if there were other "notgeld equivalents" in other European...
DANG! Those are phenomenal! The scans as well as the notes themselves. Great job! You've set a pretty high benchmark for the rest of us. :) I...
I'm not an expert, but the detail on these would lead me to think they are genuine. I know postage currency was issued in sheets and sometimes cut...
I've always been envious of the quality of your scans. Now I see how much experimentation you've done. My biggest problem has been moiré patterns...
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