My wonderful wife does not share my love for coins and notes. However, she loves lighthouses. I recently asked her if she would like to start a collection of world banknotes with lighthouses on them and she seem enthused about that. I would LOVE to get her involved in the hobby somehow, so if ya'll have some suggestions of affordable notes like this, please let me know so I can aquire some and get her going. Thanks everyone.
Good luck with the convincing Bahamas P46, P48, P53, P55, P59, P61, P66 Bermuda P24, P27, P29, P32, P35, P38, P41, P51 Dominican Republic P140 Gibraltar P26 Guernsey P56, P60 Jersey P16, P21, P27 Lithuania P63 Macao P59, P90, P101 Netherlands P98 (this is probably the most famous one) Romania P100 Somalia P32 That's just the post 1960 issues... Dave
Actually in 1775 and a couple of previous dates, the colony of Pennsylvania issued paper money with a lighthouse on it - the money raised from the currency issue was used to fund the erection of a lighthouse. At one time I owned one, and regrettably I sold it - they are fairly scarce and I haven't seen a nice one since. One of the more curious places with a lighthouse being on the note is Rhodesia: Unfortunately this is sort of a rather rare note.
Here is the Dutch note that Dave mentioned: http://www.graphicdesignmuseum.nl/lab/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ox250front.jpg It has a big lighthouse (nl: vuurtoren) on one side, and a second one (as a smaller part of the design) on the other side. This little video shows some of the note's details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lRXICGz6Ag Christian
This veers off paper money directly, but there are at least a couple USPS Commemorative Panels that feature some great intaglio banknote vignettes. These are very affordable -- you could probably pick these up for $10 each or less.
I recognise the vignette of the ladies on the commemorative panel, curiously enough it cannot be proprietary to the USPS - it was a Toppan, Carpenter & Casilear creation from the early 1850's and has been used on some banknotes and sight drafts from that period:
Bobbeth, Commemorative Panels are a curious hybrid. These were issued by the US Postal Service beginning in 1972 to promote their commemorative stamps. But the panels themselves were printed (initially) by the American Bank Note Co. using intaglio vignettes to highlight each stamp's theme. You can learn more on this thread: http://www.cointalk.com/t160644/ SM, you're right -- the USPS could not actually copyright the illustrations on the panels, since it didn't own them. The truth is, most of these vignettes are now in the public domain. So I think the USPS copyright really only applies to the text on the panels. It's a very interesting legal quandry. Some vignettes are new enough that copyrights do still apply -- and those are often imprinted in microlettering with the copyright of the bank note company.
"Lighthouse" is also a brand name for top loaders... Semi rigid, and "about" 200mm X 120mm (ca 40c ea.) ...can handle the Big Jobs
