Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Another Chilean note. I just like them because they're big.

 

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bigger is always better...LOL

 

Just pulled the trigger on this deuce. Love it being from the first block and Lyons and Roberts sigs. Can't wait for it to get here. Also bidding on a black eagle with the same symbols and sigs.

 

Today's new pickup is this 1902 $10 plain back from the Dallas National Bank. Dallas always in demand by many collectors so these notes have many buyers and fewer sellers, making every get (except for about three banks) tougher to come by. Decent overall example here...

 

Decent example, very nice

 

Rounding out my Chilean collection is this piece with a GORGEOUS reverse.
I'm very partial to trains and ships on my notes, and this has a beautiful central ship image.

 

One of my few Chile notes:

 

Onto some polymer notes which I think are pretty cool mainly because we don't have them in America.

2000 lei from Romania is interesting because it has no human heads - one side features space and the other features the country's outline.

 

Can't believe it. 1. That i finally own a 2 dollar SC. And 2. I got it today in less than 48 hours from the purchase. It's a 226a. First 2 pics are natural light.

 

I'm glad you like your purchase! It really is a gorgeous note.

 

This polymer note has some really neat colors.

Never knew that Samoa had their own currency. It apparently is pretty strong, at 2.6 Tala to the US Dollar.

 

Today's new pickup is this 1854 $1 obsolete note from The Union Bank in Georgia. I love coins on notes, but not a huge fan of cherubs, they are just weird, so, a mixed bag here. I do like a printed reverse so that's a definite plus here... some repair work here to keep the note intact with iffy results...

 

Here's todays new pickup, it's the ugly one's ugly deuce sister, this $2 from the same Union Bank. Two coins, two cherubs, makes it tougher to raise the note when you get clever that way... I know you think why get these ragamuffins, get something a bit nicer? To which I say... sure... pull those up on the Heritage site and let me know, I'll wait here forever for you... just not available except in highly circulated it looks. Lord knows I've not seen them nice...

 

One of those cherubs looks like it's rodeo-roping one of those coins....

I guess I ran out of polymer notes, but never fear, here's a ridiculously colorful Uzbekistani note.

 

The colors are amazing

 

This is from Biafra, a secessionist state in West Africa that only lasted for less than 3 years.
For such a small, and short-lived region the note looks surprisingly good.

 

Always liked that series of Mexico notes, ABNCo work is excellent, and neat cultural engravings, the Aztec calendar and revolutionary monument. The Gypsy five is nice (not sure why a Moroccan woman presented as a gypsy is on a Mexican note, but...).

Today's new pickup is another Union Bank note, this one a $10 in sharper condition. Nice overprint but no printed reverse, no cherubs but no coins, a decidedly mixed opinion here - add coins and a printed back and shazam... but nonetheless nice overall and typical of the period.

 

Excellent high quality note

 

Here's a large size horseblanket Cambodian note. I guess this was back when their currency was still strong enough not to shift to use of US dollars instead.