Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Thanks Guys! Yea Doc I have no idea what that is? At first glance I thought it was nothing more than a design embellishment?
Could it be a null that would come before the letter A???

 

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Added an FR 18 to the collection

 

Awesome notes, especially the "Rainbow" Legal Tender .
This is the latest 2009 $50 (Rios/Geithner) from the BEP

 

I'm confused. If those notes are stuck together, why are the serial #s off by 1500?

 

They are cut from 32 note sheets, stacked 100 sheets high, and then cut into 32 100-note bundles of consecutive serial numbered notes.

 

wow. How do you go about getting things like that? Very nice!

 

i own a 1934b 10 dollar note but cameras messed up..

 

SemperFiSilver:

The Series 1869 Rainbow Notes were among my favorites of all the Legal Tender Notes ( well a close tie between this and the Jackass note).
The Seals of this Series have a special Seal SN#..look between 2 and 6 O'Clock and you will see a micro number for this seal..
I just may start this Series again. Congrats on a really nice note!!

RickieB

 

That note is amazing!! the colors are truly spectacular

 

A note from Rusty, (mpcusa) to be forwarded to The Young Notables along with some other notes of mine for the students.

 

Well here is a new one... a long search for this guy... it's population is 1 of 8 by PMG with only 1 note finer.

I know many of you might think..hey, thats not so special it's a Series 1969B $20. But finding it in Gem grade is the hard part...

 

very nice! What made you want that particular note? Just the rarity?

 

Trying to make a circulated "large portrait" FRN set (1996-) as my first bill collection (I don't know what it's called). Newest find, haven't seen one of these in 3 years.

 

Steve:

I like em, nice sheets... I am still waiting for my order to be processed as these are from the New York Fed Bank..

 

Avenger:

If you are making this remark on my post, then here is the answer.

Currently putting together a Small Size Collection of US Banknotes from the NY Fed Reserve Bank.
Denominations $1 thru $1000 including Stars.....notes must meet a minimum grade of AU58 and above but prefer Gem grade.

Have a long way to go as finding some of these guys is like looking for needles in several hay stacks.

RickieB

 

Couldn't resist this one!

 

Duplicate upload... sorry....

 

Duplicate upload... sorry

 

It's just there to hold down the end of the serial number, in the absence of a letter.

The serial numbering system evolved over time on the large-size notes, and the Black Eagle series is a particularly good demonstration. Over the course of this series, four different serial numbering formats were used, and they give the distinct impression that the BEP just kept on making up new rules every time they ran out of numbers:

• The first 100,000,000 notes used plain numbers, with no letters at all. These serials had that funny-looking symbol on *both* ends.
• Then there were fourteen blocks with a letter prefix and a symbol suffix, like the one you're asking about. The block alphabet was A, B, D, E, H, K, M, N, R, T, V, X, Y, Z.
• The next fifteen blocks had matching prefix and suffix letters, beginning at A..A and running through to Z..Z. There were fifteen instead of fourteen because the letter U was included this time (the block alphabet was always a bit variable on the large-size notes).
• Finally, the last eleven blocks of the series had a constant suffix letter A, while only the prefix letter changed. These began at B..A and went through to X..A (with no U this time).

That fourth format begins to resemble the one that was later adopted for the small-size notes, where the suffix letter remains at A until the prefix letter has completed a full alphabet, and only then does the suffix get incremented.

As for the odd symbols, they're usually just ignored when transcribing serial numbers, since their only meaning is essentially "look, there's no letter here!".