Paper Money: New Acquisitions

After picking up an Educational Ace, last year, I started looking for the Deuce. My budget allowed me somewhere in the VF/XF range. This note was beyond my initial plan, but it looked so good for the grade and had such massive eye appeal, I had to have it.

 

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Those ed. notes are spectacular.

 

I'm calling this recent Heritage acquisition my serendipity note. Once you see the reverse I think you'll understand.


I thought the note was uniface and didn't look at the reverse during the auction so I was IGNORANT of the error. Oh well.

 

In addition to the Allegheny Furnace note above with the "little" train; here's another that I recently acquired. Remember Monopoly?

 

Acquired at local club meeting tonight; nice miscut error on a little obsolete


AND it is a train note !!

 

Confederate fractional currency?

 

Actually it's a note of the Mississippi Central Railroad. In 1852, the Mississippi Central Railroad was chartered by the Mississippi Legislature to build a railroad from Canton, MS to Grand Junction, TN. It was financed by wealthy cotton planters in LaGrange, TN and Oxford, MS; and was completed with the financial help of George Peabody of London. (The Peabody Hotel in Memphis was named in his honor). It ran through the towns of Grenada, Water Valley, Oxford and Holly Springs. The first passenger trains from Holly Springs to Oxford ran in 1857. Passenger service further south to Water Valley started in 1858. On January 31, 1860, the final spike was driven in Winona, MS establishing the first ever rail link between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. The 26 miles (42 km) line was constructed with 5 foot (1,524 mm) track gauge.

 

OK cause it said pay in Confederate States notes.

 

Well, actually it says " in Current Bank or Confederate States notes"; so the bearer could perhaps receive current State of Mississippi notes if available at redemption.

 

Just a nice STAR note that I did not have

 

Obtained these for my "small change" collection

 

Is that $7 dollars and 5 cents...?

 

It looks like a hand written serial number?

 

$ sign confused me..

 

Latched onto this mule

 

Maybe a reminder that the Five Cents was presented in the sum of seven dollars. ("What the hell did you do, Blankensop?" "Well, sir,..." (Cited from: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/paper-money-new-acquisitions.145914/page-276)

 

What? ^

 

Thanks bud! Just ordered one. Sodor is the mythical Island that Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends live and work on. My 2 boys are BIGTIME Thomas fans.

 

Nathan, well good for your boys.