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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 691350, member: 19456&quot;]I went on vacation for a week, and stopped in at the local coin shop. There, I got two pieces of currency, including one that had been my #1 most wanted &quot;easy&quot; note. Since I am new to the hobby it&#039;s nothing spectacular, but it made my day, and I am still very happy that I was able to aquire it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What I have figured out is a list of easy notes and hard notes that I want. &quot;Easy&quot; is stuff that is not very expensive, and not very rare; I just don&#039;t have it yet. &quot;Hard&quot; IS expensive and/or rare, and my #1 most wanted there has only 4 known examples, so it&#039;ll be on that want list for a long time-maybe forever. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, this note here is kind of just a bonus. I went in knowing that I wanted to get the second note I will show, but I ended up leaving with this one, too. (I had gone in previously that week so I knew he had the second note I will show, thus, I knew I would be getting it)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s a 1953-B $2 United States Note. It&#039;s my first $2 with the Monticello reverse, and my third USN. I really like the red seals, I now have a $1, $2 and $5.</p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v174/photos/4/348354/7834475/1953BUSN2A64731099Aa-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v1586/photos/4/348354/7834475/1953BUSN2A64731099Ab-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As I have stated many times over, I inherited a North Africa Emergency note, and that note, combined with a few others, gave me the currency bug; It led me here, to the SPMC, and more importantly...it made me a currency collector! Since I found out about it, I&#039;ve wanted a Hawaii note, as a companion piece to my NA $1 but just in and of itself, too. Now, I finally got one! It may not be in the greatest condition, but I love it. </p><p><img src="http://images52.fotki.com/v1566/photos/4/348354/7834851/1935AHawaii1S53740561Ca-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v174/photos/4/348354/7834851/1935AHawaii1S53740561Cb-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for letting me share! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>PS...in case anyone is wondering...My &quot;hard&quot; #1 is the Wappingers Falls, NY National- as near as I can tell the only notes ever created for my home town...I have not decided on a new #1 &quot;easy&quot; note yet- It&#039;s either going to be higher denominations of the North Africa note, or ??</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>(This post was copy and pasted from the CU forum..I realize that I have not shared my currency much, if at all here on CoinTalk! I will be doing that shortly, I have about 600 or more pictures plus two dozen videos to upload from my trip, so I will either do it when I am done with all that or when I am waiting for said pictures and videos to upload!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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