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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1501247, member: 19065&quot;]While they are not printed as currency, they are not replicas in the sense of being fake or lesser in quality, as they are issued by the B.E.P. from original dies (plates) and reproduced to scale, with some exceptions as I will mention below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another difference too is that the B.E.P. isn&#039;t in the business of issuing legal tender replicas like the Mint does with coins such as the silver eagles, taking old designs (WLH) and recycling them for use on bullion coins and extending that concept into the line of numismatic issues. The B.E.P. does reproduce currency from original dies of past Series of notes, and these are usually sold as Souvenir Cards at the big numismatic shows, but they don&#039;t reproduce the Treasury seals and SNs nor print them face to back which would complete them as currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trouble is, they can&#039;t just issue legal tender notes of a novelty collector design the way we see coins exploited in this way. The folks who push back about the fundamental value of modern Mint products minted as NIFC understand this well. Similarly, there aren&#039;t a bunch of old notes laying around that they can use either, and most <i>coin</i> collectors, although they love the designs of old notes, aren&#039;t willing very often to belly up to the high price of rare collectible paper notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also collect <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t94663/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t94663/">Souvenir cards</a> and have many fantastic examples in pristine printed condition, made from the old dies (plates). They are extremely easy to afford, find and enjoy in a way that my budget would never give me access to the actual rare high grade notes of the same condition. These cards also allow me access to the designs while I can also put my budget towards other notes that I like collect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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