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Message:: [QUOTE="Sam_I_am.MiaFLUSA, post: 3126066, member: 84102"]In reviewing numerous past CoinTalk e-mails for which I hadn't had time, I opened this thread expecting to see a discussion of Large Size U.S. Currency.  A large guffaw escaped my mouth when I saw the actual notes under discussion …obviously "older" is in the mind of the holder.      It brought to my mind when I purchased with my father a coin shop in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, BAHAMAS in 1972.  In reviewing theinventory on 31July1972, we split with the vending owner a very limited stock of circulated Bahamian Sterling Denominated currency literally thumb-tacked on the wall.  The Bahamas had decimalized scarcely six years earlier on 25May1966.  That was the beginning of my deep dive into Bahamian Sterling Currency, of which I may be the world's premier maven, but of which too few really care.  My "dive" has involved hundreds of hours in original research, revisions in identification and a few published articles on Bahamian currency.  However, the market reality is that I probably would have been further ahead financially if I had intermittently purchased CU groups of newly issued decimal currency.  So… who am I to laugh or be skeptical of what someone else calls older???[/QUOTE]