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Message:: [QUOTE="Bob White, post: 961806, member: 26497"]The "beautiful notes" thread seems to be breaking along some interesting lines. There are some amazing older-generation notes, that take the engraving art to the highest level. Then there are the new-gen notes, utilizing (my old hobby-horse) multiple anti-counterfeiting features, polymer media, and often "printing to the edge". Deciding which is more beautiful is like asking which of your children you prefer. I'm partial to the new-gen notes, but only before it's a) global (my collection is mostly world money) and b) cost effective to collect. Pretty sure the new-gen collections will never reach the financial value of the older generation collections, but that's not the point, is it? Having said that, I think any of the notes that win the annual IBNS note of the year would be a good place to start. They are all available at the IBNS site <a href="http://www.theibns.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theibns.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theibns.org/</a> , so I won't copy them here. I also like the recent Bank of Venezuela series. Here is the 2 Bolivar note, as an example. Recent Venezuelan politics aside, these are some kickin' notes........(scans from Ron Wise's excellent website, of course)  [ATTACH]91392.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]91393.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]