Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Well sorry for the long delay, I have this problem with lazy spells that the doctors can't figure out, not sure there is a cure for it. Just terminal laziness...

Anyways, let's post a new pickup shall we? At least this note is worth the wait, this dazzling $2 obsolete from The Warwick Bank in Rhode Island. What a design and in such great shape altogether. This note gets two snaps up in Z formation...

 

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Well we've been on a roll with nice obsoletes so lets keep it going with this new pickup. This $5 remainder from the Peninsular Bank in Michigan is a nice design with nice big engravings and fancy numeric counters that pop. Add in a green overprint protector, and the cherry on top is a colored printed back...

 

Well, did decide to send my radar MPC for grade and preservation. Well very surprised at the grade but am NOT complaining.
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Today's pickup...

 

Today's new pickup is this rough and tumble Minneapolis 1934 $10 DGS star. The world isn't exactly overrun with Minny stars so you take the ones you can get when they come up. Hard to believe these notes are closing in on 100 years old. Wow.

 

Went to my last Memphis IPMS (it's moving to Kansas City next year); looking for one particular note and FOUND it.
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A few new radar notes from Memphis
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Today's new pickup is this Bank of the Valley in Virginia $20 obsolete. I like the non-standard layout on this note, gives it quite a bit different look than the normal big vignette in the center and symmetrical layout everywhere. This notes asymmetry is it's charm...

 

Great additions everybody.

Just got this Type 2 National in an older style PCGS holder. The grade is one of the lowest I've seen with a PPQ designation.




The centering is terrible.....

 

Nice note Steve. I'm sure the issuing bank caught your eye. I saw a National from my hometown area not long ago and it really made me want to buy it. It was a little too pricey for me so I ultimately didn't get it.

I don't think I've ever seen a PPQ designation with such a low grade either.

 

Steve, I wonder that IF you were to send the note back to PCGS for "reholder" would it retain the PPQ designation? Hmmm.

 

I always look through this thread to gawk at things that you guys have found/purchased. Everything here is beautiful! I long to one day find a silver certificate or red sealed note in circulation, but for now, I'll just keep collecting the bills from 1995 because they look more artsy!

 

Here is some of the significant things I've found over the approximately 3 years I have been collecting... photos taken with galaxy s6 camera, which I am in love with!
The silver certificate is something my uncle found at a casino a while ago

 

Today's new pickup is this mid-era obsolete from Michigan, a 1830's $3 from the Bank of Clinton. Threes are my favorite obsolete denomination, just so oddball but not altogether uncommon from the obsolete era, so you can get a nice collection, unlike tougher oddball's like $4 and $8 and such. Seems appropriate since another useless oddball obsolete named Clinton has been in the news Oh No He Didn't OH YES HE DID! Alas I don't have a goofy orange stained obsolete note from the Bank of Trump to even out the jokes...

I do like the design on this note, alot elements and clearly designed with the contemporary note raisers in mind, colored overprints are about the only thing missing from all the counters spread all over the design...

 

Today's new pickup is this neat design, an obsolete remainder again from Michigan. This Commercial Bank note from Gratiot has really neat engravings, big engraving to left, neat round ones to the right, and a strange one in the middle, a large engraving but it's got a framed one of a completely different scene over it. Kind of neat, I like it...

 

Today's new pickup is this very early obsolete, way back 200+ years old now, this 1814 $2 Connecticut note. Do like to collect $2's, the red-headed stepchild of common denominations, and an early one like this is nice to have. From the Manufacturers Exchange Company, crap I just realized that abbreviate to MEC and it's a 2 so MEC2 like my name OHZMYGERRRDDDD!!!

 

OMG! OMG! OMG! OHZMYGERRRDDDD!!!

Haha, nice man.