Paper Money: New Acquisitions

"Found" this at tonight's coin club auction.
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A run of 1934D $5 SC’s.....these were being distributed and circulating when I was born.

 

Sweet blue seals. In my opinion, one of the nicest notes are the 1934 silver certificates.

 

That back sure looks funny

The centering and color is outstanding on this one, especially for the grade.

 

Got to sneak this new pickup under the wire... today is a 50 sol assignat note from France. This is basically the penultimate expression of the folly of envy, confiscation, and paper currency combined with arbitrary fiat of the uncontrolled state. These notes were issued out against the value of property of the church seized by the revolutionary French. Naturally, depreciation followed, counterfeiting, and frankly, just ill will as the state split up their ill gotten gains.

 

MEC2, yep, always thought the assignat notes were just strange issues; and wondered about acceptance. Found this one years ago in a bargain box.

 

Nice example their tw, good full ines and the two stamp impressions... today's new pickup is my other assignat - this one a 10 livres note. I believe the livre notes were larger than the sols denominations and were actually pretty spendy, making their use as currency (which assignats were not designed for) less desirable...

 

Sort of found this one in an online auction; serial number is higher than one reported in 10th Schwartz/Lindquist.
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Fairly nice $20 at a great price
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Here's a nice surprise found in a mixed lot of $5 FRNs.
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Always like me some 28-34 stars there tw... wish I could collect more but they come up rarely anymore it seems...

Well, let us look at today's new pickup shall we? Today we have a Confederate-era State of Mississippi obsolete note, this one a $20 of the Faith of the State Pledged variety. Earlier notes were stamped as Cotton Pledged, that is, cotton sale proceeds were set aside to guarantee the value of the notes. As of course things dragged on and the South's agrarian economy suffered through the war, there wasn't enough cotton to pledge against all the notes the State had to print to pay it's obligations. So, they stamped on the front what pretty much ought to be on every note today - pledged by the faith of the State. Still better than bitcoin... and this note has blue and green overprint, a train, a native with a bow next to woman harvesting in the field, something tells me those natives in traditional dress and settlers in the field didn't have such genteel interactions typically. Be careful, she'll shank a b#$ch with that shiv...

 

MEC2, you are 100% correct on the stars availability (except for HIGH $$$ ones); this one just happened to be a lot that I purchased. A true surprise but I'll keep it as an early Christmas present.

 

A few replacement notes found in recent Lyn Knight auction:
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How much were Bolivian pesos worth in 1984?
There's almost 7 "BOB" to the dollar today.

 

Today's new pickup is this always popular Poker Chip note... well traveled but not perhaps well stored, I wonder if there is some PVC action on the paper here, but you take what you can get on this note. When you say you have a beat up Poker Chip note, at least you have a Poker Chip note...

 

Well, it's past midnight here so I can go ahead and post a new pickup... today is a really great pickup, a $5 1902 date back from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. There are only 7 known notes out on this bank, period, and only 3 1902's. It's seen some action but considering picking are slim, I was thrilled to pick it up. I do like collecting rare nationals (ugh, I said I'd never do it because it was crazy, and well, it is...) or from fun cities or bank names, and well, this is pretty damn rare...

 

Today's new pickup is this about uncirculated 1863 $100 State of Georgia obsolete. Man, $100 back in that day was big money, even in Confederate dollars... I like the Georgia issues, they changed every year and always had interesting designs. In 1863, you got the snake wrapped central image. This note represents a solid upgrade for me from a fine version, so that is always good news. While this is a uniface obsolete, I scanned the back because that's where the issue stamp went (at least at that time, sometimes it was on the face... especially earlier)... the stamp is rough (probably worn from use!) by this time, still using the Treasury of Georgia 1862 stamp even here in 1863...

 

Today's new pickup is this eye popping large 1929 500 Korun note from Czechoslovokia. Alot to like on this note - alot. Big note, alot of color, great engraving quality, it's quite the eye catcher...

 

Always a fan of colorful notes, the back on that Mexico note is a nice bright orange, and I even like the validation stamp (or issue, cancellation, reissue, whatever kind of stamp it is...)

Today's new pickup is this $3 obsolete from The Rollstone Bank. I do love a $3 bill, it's my favorite crazy denomination, and I really like this design with the big red 3 overprint. Not sure if this note is on a spurious bank, or a spurious note on a real bank, or a spurious note on a spurious bank, but I have decided I don't care, and like the design regardless. If anyone has info on this (non) issue, let me know, only one HA auction ever that I can find...