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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2025772, member: 19065&quot;]Personally, I urge you to inquire about things like this before buying them. You post a lot of threads on these forums and take a lot of flack for things, but you need to take pause before buying, perhaps buying less on impulse at times, and see where direction can take you before making a purchase. Sure .99¢ is a nominal amount, but it works on another angle and that I will explain in the next lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I urge you not to buy these particular items, as sellers tend to hack apart original stock certificates and larger sheets from collections which originally reproduced these vignettes in collected thematic sets, some of which were housed in cloth bound editions and explained with a title or brief background on the vignette. Encouraging sales of these pieces by buying only reinforces their decision to take these sets apart and removes them from their original context. However, it might be helping the value of the remaining complete sets...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here in the Paper Money forum, there are a number of threads on ABNCo that you can glean A LOT of information from, and see a lot of amazing engraved securities art shared by collectors of such things. I encourage you to do some research and put a pause to your buying of these being sold piecemeal. I think you will find it an exciting area of collecting, and a branch of numismatic related material you can expand into, which may excite you to track down examples not trimmed from original sheets and help maintain the originals out there for collectors who enjoy them in that state.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have four such ABNCo Archive Series collections, not the one your eagle vignette likely appeared in (I don&#039;t think), but I would like to add to my collection of complete sets of these reproduced series. So I hope you can understand how destroying these sets hurts such chances.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a&nbsp; couple of examples, showing how the Archive Series plates were reproduced with thematic imagery. They collect groups of original ABNCo dies that were first used on things like stock certificates, bonds and in some cases banknotes, bank checks, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/ABNCo%201987%20Archive%20Series/ABNCo_1987_09.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can see in &quot;The Price of Freedom&quot; plate how your vignette was reproduced, and each year changed the color of ink as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/ABNCo%201987%20Archive%20Series/ABNCo_1987_11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s nice to see these vignettes in different colors but that can also be used to help you determine where the image was used or reproduced.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your prints are original , they should have an intaglio printed line quality like paper money feels when it&#039;s brand new. The ink lines are slightly raised, and give an embossed feel to the touch.&nbsp; If not, then they may not even be more than a digital copy you bought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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