Hi. I already posted in the intro forum but I wanted to say hi in this forum as well. My main passion is colonial notes and fiscal paper. I also collect books from this period. I am always on the lookout for reference material. Currently I have Newman's "Early Paper Money", Anderson's "The Price of Liberty", Friedberg's "Paper Money of the US". One of my favorites is the 1839 printing of "An Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency". I do have books on colonial coinage but I haven't started collecting colonial coinage yet. I've also kept the Stacks Ford auction catalog along with other auction catalogs from Stacks, Ha and Early American History Auction. Anyway, I am a small collector on a budget so I look and study more than buy. For the most part I find this area of paper money to be the most affordable. This is something that I find most surprising. Two of my favorite notes are a 1775 Sword in Hand Revere note and a Feb 1776 John Hart New Jersey 30 shillings English raid note that is also an ex-Ford collection. The raid notes have only two out of the three signatures as it was stolen by the British before the third signatures. It is a PMG graded 58 note. I am looking forward to learning more from this forum.
Howdy Joe! Welcome to CT and the Paper Money forum. Thanks for dropping in here with a special intro. I am new to paper collecting (but not new to numismatics) and I recently bought the Newman book Early Paper Money of America to teach myself a little about early Colonial era currency history. Very fascinating stuff. I think you found a great forum in choosing CT, there are many here quick, eager and able to help one another learn and pursue the hobby. Again, welcome. :smile
Welcome to the CoinTalk Forum Joe. Your fellow members are good listeners, knowledgeable, helpfull, and eager to share their opinions with anyone that will listen. I look forward to reading your posts.
Hello! I'm pretty new to this board myself, but it's a nice place. Pretty decent folks all around. I'm sure you'll enjoy it here!
Welcome to the forum! From one budget minded collector to another window shopping is fun, but buying is better lol
