Paper Money: New Acquisitions

20 shillings to a pound.

A Spanish milled dollar is a reale and is the equivalent of 5 shillings.

Unless you are using Halifax money.

 

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Today's new pickup is this $50 Ohio national from 1929, but we're gonna party like it's 1999 because that's what the bank charter number says... this note is from Citizens National Bank in New Philadelphia - not sure what was wrong with the old one, but unless they have Cheesesteaks in the new one, I am going to have to give the nod to the old one, this nice looking note not withstanding...

 

Today's new pickup is this neat $3 obsolete reprint from the International Bank of Portland, Maine. Real issues on this bank are actually green, I beliete the reprint is red, which is nice because it looks good but also means no hankey pankey with the real population of notes, because the reprint is for all intents and purposes the same as the issued notes. I'm going for all of them because they just look neat...

 

Nice one @MEC2 .
That’s a popular vignette on your Maine Obsolete remainder. I think I have a Rhode Island Obsolete with the same vignette.

 

Today's new pickup is this 1773 Colonial two-shillings note from the fine Quaker loving state of Pennsylvania. Red overprint protector is faded but visible, the signatures and serial are great - and look, it's Sam Bishop again with his glorious scrawl. Quakers or not, pretty sure they'd hang you up by your hook-and-loops even if the Counterfeit warning has faded out on the back...

 

Wallet Piece?

 

Got a Neilsen Survey today, with two crisp one dollar bills, including a Star Note. Nothing much to report, but as I know some of you like offset errors and such, I thought you may be interested in the offset onto the return envelope. No such offset onto the banknotes, however.

 

Wet Ink Transfer?

 

Picked this up for my collection of notes my great grandfather signed. Been waiting for and hoping to get this note for a long long time. It's the only note I think he signed from this bank before it re-chartered.

 

Christ that note is a monster, for ten different reasons... signed by a relative, 64 condition, serial #1... dynamite.

Dave - I did have that in my wallet for a brief time but it's actually pretty decent to put too much travel on. On those singles you posted, looks like that paper either got wet (possible but not likely, wet paper shows real easily) or went through a laser printer and got coated with fuser, which grabbed the ink off the notes. Even if a laser print doesn't print anything, you often get a dusting a fuser on there...

Well it's almost anticlimactic to post after Kazuma's insane note, but, someone has to do it, might as well be me. Speaking of wallets, here is another of the What's In Your Wallet series - gonna carry a hundred, this one is the best combination, not costly, obtainable, but still interested, of course the 1966 $100 US Note. Sure, I guess it could be the 66-A but that's getting picky isn't it? Nice thing about the 66, it's a neat note and affordable once you get past the face value. So it rides atop the wad... little rust on the back, who cares, it's the wallet piece front that is the attraction, and a note that would otherwise be unremarkable gets to ride the lightning in my money clip...

 

Great post @MEC2

That last line... "gets to ride the lightning". Love it.

 

Love that monster Date Back Ohio National @kazuma78 .

 

I was stoked to get the approval of the owner to sell it. Its definitely one of my top pieces, just phenomenally cool.

 

Hoping I can also get this one. Also signed by my great grandfather.

 

I see. A,B,C,D. Sneaky.

 

Binary Serial Number

 

Nice $100 FRBN @Endeavor

 

Thank you Steve.