Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Ahhh so that is where our world coins savant Siberian Man got his avatar, how big were the wallets that carried those? We call our old large size notes horse blankets, these would be more like elephant blankets.

 

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My bank teller was saving these for me today. I got excited but later found out they are barely about 20% over face value.

 

Today's new pickup is an obsolete from the end of the antebellum south, a $1 Bank of Commerce note from Georgia. Always love a big design, and ships are a great one. You can tell you're banking in the south when one of the intaglio's is a guy holding a bushel of cotton... red overprint for the win!

 

Still a very nice hoard of notes. Any lime green seals in there? 34c and 34d are scarce, even non stars. Some might be only 20% over face, but it's hard to apply that to all the notes, considering the quantity you have.

 

2nd one down on the right is a D, right? Or do you mean series 34D rather than the district?

Rob

 

Thanks for the info, I think I seen one or two lime green seal 50s. I'll have to check once I get home.

 

I meant series 1934D. The block letter before the serial number indicates the Federal Reserve Bank it was assigned to for distribution.

The lime/light green seals are more valuable. But they only appeared on 1928A series and 1934 series for $100s. There were no more light green seals printed from series 1934A forward.

Here's an example of a lime/light green seal on a 1928A:

 

Today's new pickup is a State of Georgia $10 from 1864. Georgia issued many notes of varying designs and denominations which changed each year of the Civil War, and I'm trying to "collect them all". They have different stamps, some of which wore better than others, this one I think is showing discoloration due to age - the black stamps wore better. Still, like the vignette and overall design on this series...

 

I think they call that stamp the "all out of cottonelle".

 

Remember when I told you I started getting obsoletes? I did. Alot... so, another new entry is here. This one from the Tecumseh Bank, they had alot of interesting notes, this one has the odd double horse and rider element. Not sure if they got a discount by reusing it or they just were really into cavalry... not sure, maybe that is Atlas holding the world there on the center vignette.

 

New addition to the FRBN district set in 58.

Now I just need to upgrade that Boston to a PCGS or PMG, and get me a St. Louis, San Francisco and Dallas ($$$).

 

Got this one at a Wells Fargo bank for face value:

 

Nice notes - I really like that FRBN set Funkee
As for me, I got these two modest tens in today. The rest are all gonna start getting expensive. Some too much for me to complete, but I'll get most of them eventually.

 

I think in the context of obsolete banknotes, "spurious" means the bank never existed -- someone just made up the name and printed the notes to bilk the unsuspecting. "Counterfeiting" would be copying the note of a real bank. During the era, meticulous reference lists (counterfeit detectors) were compiled of legit banks so merchants and bankers could avoid being cheated.

 

$25.00 United States Savings Bond bearing Secretary Morgenthau's signature but without the War Bond legend. Only two others of this variety have been reported. The transition from the signature of Secretary Morgenthau on US savings bonds to Secretary Vinson began in August 1945. The War Bond legend was removed from savings bonds at the same time.

Morgenthau signature bonds (designated Series 1943 by the BEP) should all have the War Bond legend while Vinson signatures (Series 1943-A in the BEP nomenclature) should not have the war bond legend. Vinson signature $10.00 war bonds have been observed. Mules (Morganthau signature face/Series 1943-A back and Vinson signature face/Series 1943 back) have also been observed.

 

I am going wildly out of order to post this new pickup, just got it, a long time coming, not fancy kid but she has it where it counts, she'll make .5 past light speed. Anyways, got a poker chip note in my affordable wheelhouse, had to make a stab and *just* won by the hair of my chinny chin chin... hopefully this makes up for not posting a new pickup yesterday or Monday. My bad...

 

Got an upgrade on this one

 

Great notes MEC2 and Icerain. Really cool stuff there!

Thought I'd post something a little different: 500 Syrian Pounds and 2 & 5 Dollars from Bermuda.

 

Yes, same guy (Tsar Peter), but a slightly different portrait, I think ...

Christian

 

Well, since you got gypped yesterday, I feel I should make it up to you with two notes... again from the Cottonelle series as Funkee coined, two more State of Georgia notes from 1864. I like the engraving on the five's roman numeral, just looks zazzy. Again, the stamp has the same patina colorization, so something in the ink has that almost verdigris look. Similar thing happened on the bronzing of US fractional currency, not sure if they have similar materials in the stamp. Earlier ones were just black ink or red ink, not sure if they changed it as a counterfeit measure or what...