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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1979546, member: 24274&quot;]I&#039;d love to see such a list, but it would be massive. If you include predecessor companies like Rawdon, Wright &amp; Hatch which printed a great many obsolete bank notes, then it gets even bigger. I would estimate banknotes alone total 80-100,000 types. Haxby&#039;s Standard Catalog of Obsolete Bank Notes comes in four big volumes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t even try to include stocks and bonds. Terry Cox has compiled the most comprehensive catalog of railroad securities (*just* railroads) that is approaching 20,000 varieties of certificates. The majority of these were by ABNC. When you consider how many other industries existed the number of varieties expands to hundreds of thousands. Remember, this covers 150+ years of printing.</p><p><br /></p><p>As lettow mentioned, the American Bank Note Co archives were sold off, beginning in the 1990s. Cox has also compiled a list of auction catalogs that contained this material: <a href="http://www.coxrail.com/abn-archives.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coxrail.com/abn-archives.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.coxrail.com/abn-archives.asp</a>. Archives International continues to roll out new material, though the flow has dropped off in the past few years. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve often wondered if it might be possible to create a visual database of vignettes and portraits produced by ABN, which were used on banknotes and other securities. But even that would be a monumental task.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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