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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 677386, member: 57463&quot;]<b>North... Sout... East.... (not much in the West...)</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you seem to be a Southerner, then you are started.&nbsp; Georgia and South Carolina were the sites of origin for many Obsolete bank notes, especially those issued by railroads.</p><p>The Georgia Numismatic Association <a href="http://www.gamoney.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gamoney.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.gamoney.org</a> has an award-winning newsletter with informative articles, but there are active South Carolina and Tennessee clubs as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, &quot;obsoletes&quot; covers the entire USA up to 1857... and even beyond....&nbsp; I have separate books for Indiana and Ohio and Michigan.&nbsp; In addition, a curious and fascinating site is about Spanish Money on US Banknotes:&nbsp; <a href="http://scoan.oldnote.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://scoan.oldnote.org/" rel="nofollow">http://scoan.oldnote.org/</a>&nbsp; Just to say, the collecting area on &quot;obsoletes&quot; is very broad -- you could collect by a wide variety of themes, states aside.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is from my current hometown, Ann Arbor.&nbsp; It always gets attention as most people do not know about the era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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