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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1060610, member: 57463&quot;]Whitman Publishing released <i>The Collector’s Guide to Modern Federal Reserve Notes Series 1963-2009</i> by Robert Azpiazu on December 5.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Forward Art Friedberg says that no greater compliment can be paid to a book for collectors than that it stimulated another form of collecting -- and this book accomplishes that.&nbsp; I never cared much for modern paper.&nbsp; But leafing through the dense tables and authoritative summaries, I gained a new appreciation for a form of money that I handle often, but never truly perceived.&nbsp; I went back and read the Forward and the Introduction.&nbsp; Then, I looked at the bills that I happen to have right now, identifying the plate position letter and number and the plate serial number.&nbsp; I can tell that my $2 series 1996 Non-Star Block FA serial number 49868372 is one of the last produced for a run that ended with 51200000.&nbsp; Knowing more about it,&nbsp; I appreciate it a bit more.&nbsp; To me, that is what numismatics is all about: understanding the forms and uses of money.&nbsp; But collecting is nothing if not an obsession ... and it so happens that I save a little stash of $1s from New York City which I keep in &quot;Chapter 6: Gold and Economic Freedom&quot; by Alan Greenspan in Ayn Rand&#039;s <i>Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal</i>.&nbsp; Now, I have six notes to play with, all series 2006. Five are from Ft. Worth. I can lay them out in the geometry of the Subject Sheet.&nbsp;&nbsp; Three bear the same reverse plate number.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost like being in the plant.&nbsp; I can smell the ink, hear the presses...</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, OK, every collector has their own passions.&nbsp; Radar notes, repeaters, errors of many kinds, by series, by signature...&nbsp; I have some academic medals and it just seems appropropriate now to add a <b>Lawrence H. Summers</b> note from <b>Boston</b> to them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=55&amp;HTMLName=ReviewGuest_1010" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=55&amp;HTMLName=ReviewGuest_1010" rel="nofollow">Arthur L. Friedberg’s Forward to this book is here.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.fstctycurr.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fstctycurr.com/" rel="nofollow">Robert Azpiazu&#039;s own retail website <b>First City Currency</b> is here</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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