For me it is a real tough call to choose my favorite...they are all so darn cool...but I think when pressed I would have to say this one (Note: ME being pressed, NOT the Note being pressed ) I got it in March of this year, and it's got two records for me currently: It's my oldest note, from 1860, and the most I've spent on a single note, $25. It's also my only Obsolete, for now. I remember how I got it...I was out of state at a convention for another hobby of mine, and knew there was a good coin shop there. I had a very limited time in the coin shop, but I was able to procure some things I wanted and then I came to the currency display. This is the same store and same visit where I got my Confederate $2 and my Fractional 50 center. This layed under the Confederate two. I had already commited to buy the other two, and when the owner of the shop picked them up out of the case, I had to ask about this one. (The others were priced on the front, this on the reverse for some reason). When he told me $25, I knew then and there it would be coming home with me, and it did. They all did, as well as a handfull of coins I was after. I knew of Obsolete...aka, broken bank notes, before hand but had never seen one in person. I studied it the rest of my trip, and I continue to study it. I just look at it, wonder who has held it, wonder what it was spent on originally, what it has seen in it's 149 year existance. I had, before that day, never seen a uniface note, and I ended up with two of them! It fascinates me, it did when I first saw it, and it still does. Very soon, more Obsoletes will join it. I have my eyes on a few now, and depending on how CoinFest goes, I may have more by this time next month. But, this will always be my first, and it will always be special. Now, with the scans, they look different color wise. The obverse was scanned on my old computer, and it is brighter then the note really is. The reverse was scanned with my new computer and is more washed out then the note really is. Kind of picture it in the middle, and you will see how it really looks. With my old computer, the scanner cut off the ends of the note, so I had to rescan it on my new computer. Same scanner. but it works differently on both! Oddly enough, I only have two $10s in my collection, this one and a series 2006 issue.
Nice note and nice story to go along with it's acquisition. You know what I love about those obsoletes? They seem to have a high high proportion of notes with lovely ladies on them. That, coupled with relatively affordable for the most part pricing makes them highly collectable.
The nice thing about so many of the obsoletes is they are wonderful fusions of many varied themes in collecting, lovely ladies, ships, trains, politicians. Well the last one is true, but unfortunate.
The First vignette is not an obsolete it's a 15 cent Fractional currency ,but worth a look at .Here are a Russian Obsolete Lady .The Hawaian is a copy of a rare obsolete
i was being funny ... a sad attempt, but true i know which you meant, i just thoght the ship was cool too lol
