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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 64578, member: 3813&quot;]Yeah, the kids (I teach) really like that as well, as do I.&nbsp; I like even on the 1917 series notes (and others) that they list the consequences as well.&nbsp; Heck, $5,000 fine or 15 years doesn&#039;t seem too bad by today&#039;s standards.&nbsp; Death, on the other hand, seems less thrilling.</p><p><br /></p><p>You know, I&#039;ve seen prices all over the place for these.&nbsp; Some auction houses seem to price them really high, and other places that I&#039;ve seen them are more reasonable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t tell you if all of these are authentic...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.listings.ebay.com/Paper-Money-US_Colonial-Currency_W0QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ3413QQsocmdZListingItemList" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.listings.ebay.com/Paper-Money-US_Colonial-Currency_W0QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ3413QQsocmdZListingItemList" rel="nofollow">http://coins.listings.ebay.com/Paper-Money-US_Colonial-Currency_W0QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ3413QQsocmdZListingItemList</a></p><p><br /></p><p>-nor can I honestly tell you for 100% sure that any of mine are.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know who could, but I will try to have them authenticated one day.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will say that mica specs aside, the technology is at a point today where it wouldn&#039;t be impossible to recreate just about any document or bill that ever existed.&nbsp; I would also say that forgeries at the time (despite the threat of DEATH) were surely common.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone is an expert, I&#039;d be happy to do up some large scans for them to examine and give their opinion on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I (bring on the boos) actually don&#039;t own any books, and piece things together little by little all over the web.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think anything I own is particularly rare in a collector&#039;s sense, I just collect what I like.&nbsp; In terms of much of my foriegn currency, that often boils down to bills with pretty pictures and colors.&nbsp; Probably a lame way to collect things, but I just do it for fun, no for resale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the note that I didn&#039;t have a scan of before (what I call a Fugio note, though there&#039;s probably a more technical term).&nbsp; I picked this up for $113.&nbsp; It has faint signatures, mica specs, and is soft as a cotton ball (I must resist touching it but it is really nice).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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