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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1007268, member: 57463&quot;]Well, you are in California and I am in Michigan, so my view of this is different from yours.&nbsp; These things are pretty common here, and often in (nearly) uncirculated grades.&nbsp; You need to understand the terms of issue:&nbsp; The City of Detroit paid these out at interest, but accepted them back for property taxes.&nbsp; Basically, the City was paying its bills based on its collections of taxes 90 days out.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the best website I know of for Depression Scrip:</p><p><a href="http://www.depressionscrip.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.depressionscrip.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.depressionscrip.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one cost a couple of dollars a few years ago.</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.banknotebank.com/files/images/resize/930/929415_a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.banknotebank.com/files/images/resize/930/929415_b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The standard book, recommended on that site, in fact is <i>Standard Catalog of Depression Scrip of the US</i> by Ralph Mitchell and Neil Shafer.&nbsp; You can buy the book for about what your Series C note seems to cost at some auctions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, if you use the ANA or ANS Library catalogs, you will find a rich array of books and articles about these artifacts of the Previous Great Depression.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>(If you do not want to buy the book, as an ANA Member, you can borrow it from the Library.&nbsp; ANS books are not for loan.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an example of the old-equals-rare fallacy. You never saw one of these.&nbsp; But in fact, California Depression Scrip is known ... and hard to find in Michigan...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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