The back is printed first. So an offset transfer back to front would occur at that time. If the green offset image on the front is printed below...
They used you to get rid of notes they were having difficulty unloading. An expat may find himself offered all sorts of notes that the owner...
It's lipstick obviously. An early transgender pioneer.
The theory and practice of money is one of history's great stories. People seldom fully understand the differences between the major types of...
Trade dollars ceased to be legal tender after 1876. Thereafter they were purchased as bullion, and usually used to make transactions in Asia with...
French 20Fr coins with early 20th Century dates are almost certainly restrikes issued after 1960. France, like many other countries, began issuing...
Ok, don't know how to interact correctly with this board's eccentric reply function.
The widest parts, horizontal and vertical, are slightly larger than the stated sizes, but not enough to be statistically significant. I agree that...
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I have a 1985 $20 FRN that is missing the third printing. It's not albino, it's just not there. It is from position H2, meaning it was in the last...
I'm done here. Not interested in a "forum" where I'm subject to arbitrary censorship by a testosterone-addled lawyer and/or his lackeys. Delete my...
When two parties swap items, isn't the implication that the items are of equivilent value? BTW, the (not so) implied threat, while worthy of a...
I own a nice television, and would rather own a riding lawnmower. You own a riding lawnmower, and would rather own a nice television. We...
It's not a "simlitude of money" if it's an agreed swap. It's a "similitude of money" if you offer Item X for sale at Price Y, and I proffer to you...
I'll say again: If you have Item X that I'd like to own, and I have Y "Liberty Dollars" that you'd like to own, and we agree to trade, it's...
Sometimes I save things related to coins and currency solely because they might interest somebody a hundred years hence. If they were from the...
You can "spend" them, too, so long as by "spend" you mean trading them to another for whatever you both agree. What you can't do is proffer...
US notes are first sorted into blocks of 4000, so any with a serial number under 4001 are from the "first block". I personally considered...
I wrote a story once about a Seated Liberty half that had survived the San Francisco earthquake, then was found in the rubble by a boy who saved...
Copyright law is odd. I was amazed when the modern Olympic movement could claim the word "Olympics" and limit its use when it is a 2500 year old...
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