Jarrid... you did great! The Rickey Collection is a well pedigreed collection. The Burke/Glass sigs are the most difficult to obtain.... Congrats on your purchase... RickieB
Yes, you did good. I looked at closed auctions for 1914 $5 FRN's with that signature combo and looking at the last few, they closed for anywhere between $33 and $51 for notes of a similar grade. As for the signers, John Burke served as Treasurer from 4/1/1913 to 1/5/1921 and Carter Glass as Secretary of the treasure from 12/16/1918 to 2/1/1920. It's probably Glass's shorter term which makes the sig combination a bit rarer than the others.
http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/chron_s.html Scroll down and read the section titled "A few words about series numbering". It related to small size notes, but you'll get the general idea as large size is similar except for they didn't use a series letter. Here's a table with info on signers of large size notes: http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/chron_l.html
Commidaddy i think you made a good purchase. Pick up a few books about paper money. There is so much out there that you won't believe! Keep us updated on what you pick up. Greg
Since you say you're into coins too, there's another historical connection here: Carter Glass is the only person ever to have had his signature on U.S. currency *and* his portrait on a U.S. coin. He's pictured on the 1936 Lynchburg commemorative half-dollar, since he was possibly the most famous son of that town.... Also, he was alive at the time the coin was issued, making him one of only five people to be depicted on a U.S. coin while living. For a bonus point, there's also exactly one currency signer who's been pictured on the *currency*. That'd be F.E. Spinner, who appears on one design of the Third Issue 50c Fractional Currency. The note was not only issued during his life; it was even issued during his term, so that his portrait and signature appear on the same note! Several currency designs from the 1860's depicted then-current government officials; the practice wasn't prohibited until later that decade. Even then, the prohibition was only written to apply to currency and stamps; it's still technically legal for living people to appear on coins, though tradition frowns on it.
The way i look at things... you bought the note... if your happy with the purchase and the price paid, they absolutely you did good! Lovely note with alot of history on it Nice job! :thumb:
Hey, without the plastic how could you possibly know which of the 42 possible grades your note was?!?:headbang:
