Thank you, gentlemen, for your words of praise. I've been wanting to post something on these for a long time and figured this was an excellent...
I think you did *very* well at that price! I've picked up a number of full sheets from Ann Arbor banks over the years, but there are a couple that...
There was no pic in the Haxby catalog, just individual illustrations of the notes. The sheet is just described as containing the two $2s and $3s....
What you need is "Standard Catalog of United States Obsolete Bank Notes 1782-1866" by James Haxby. However, this is an *expensive* four-volume...
I've been somewhat sporadic in reading the PM threads lately, so I thought I'd go back and check out some of the other SEG presentations from...
Posted! :) http://www.cointalk.com/t143792/
The pieces shown here were picked up in mail auctions, stamp and paper money shows, and sometimes through dealers. It's a very narrow niche market...
A small percentage (but still a very large number) of these tax stamps were held back, primarily examples that were punch cancelled. Sometimes...
Used versions of these stamps are often very rare, due to the fact that they received harsh treatment in being attached to casks and various...
In 1862, to help fund the cost of Civil War (and later Reconstruction), Congress authorized excise taxes on a host of products. Then, as now, some...
It's like an episode of "The History Detectives." :) If you find anything else related to August Gast's bank note business please don't hesitate...
@ Texas John - Hmmm. Well, they've been minting coins a few hundred years longer than us. Maybe that's where we got the equipment! :)
Much appreciated KatyDid. Love the fairy card! If you read through some of krispy's earlier links you'll note that "Ferdinand Gast, son of August...
Krispy's earlier post probably compiles as much info about Gast as I've ever seen....
I'm sure that honoring the Kennedy legacy played into it, but the simple fact that the Kennedy half was produced, silver or not, was a...
Which would explain why clad dollars weren't minted until 1971. Thanks Hobo!
Would my note qualify as "dramatic?" :) It seems odd that the ink would drop out in the middle of the note, rather than fading off at one end or...
Great stuff, Condor101! Very educational -- thanks. I knew how powerful the silver lobby was in the late 19th and early 20th century, but didn't...
Looking back on my younger days culling out 40% silver Kennedy halves from bank rolls, something never occurred to me: Why do they exist? By that...
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