Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Today's new pickup is a 100 Drachma note designed for use by Italy in the assimilated Ionian islands of Greece during the second World War. Actually a decent design for what is occupation money. And, of course it really didn't turn out the way the Italians planned, so... this represents the slightest of upgrades to my collection, so here it comes.

 

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Today's new pickup is this nice Pennsylvania obsolete $5. Pat Lyon at the forge, a ubiquitous social meme of the time off to the right, overall a nice mid-period obsolete.

 

Really nice!

 

Picked up this obsolete from De Soto, Nebraska. For some reason, the steamboat just called out my name. Now, I have to complete the set. Stupid note...

 

I recently picked these three up.

 

And this...

 

Wow, back then Nebraska was a territory! Great pickup!

 

Those DeSoto notes are very nice and very popular - not easy to grab. At least inexpensively...

Today's new note is this obsolete from North Carolina, Greensboro as it is. Now, what I have to contemplate is why the bank title shows Greensboro' Mutual with an apostrophe, a piece of punctuation I absolutely do not understand. And I have to contemplate this while the engraving of the guy right in the middle of the note looks right through my soul, that engraving sort of creeps me out man...

 

Quite a few actually. All of these + another at least $100 in crisp old small heads for face!

 

Note: the 1934 is not fake! Some fool who didn't see a watermark on the bill scribbled fake on it!

 

Plucked a $1 note from my till yesterday with the serial 00000320. Lowest ever so far for me.

 

Wow! The lowest I have found is 4 digits.

 

Me too! My previous lowest was 000055XX

 

I've only ever found two three digit low notes in circulation

 

and while not particularly low, this is the closest I've ever come to finding a solid

 

and on the other end of the spectrum, this is the highest serial number I've ever found. I'm usually looking for bills that starts with zeroes but when I saw 999 it caught my attention.

 

I'm not a paper buyer. I found these thumbing through a junk box. Couldn't pass them by so They followed me home.

 

Nice. IF you ever decide to rid yourself of the United Cigar note just let me know, it would go well with my cigar stamps and labels "accumulation" (can't call it a collection yet).

 

Thanks, will do.