Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Fr 1929-K* $1 FRN star note PCGS 66PPQ

 

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Just picked this up in the last week....paid a premium to get it but hadn't seen any older bills with a SN this low. You get into the single-digits and you start approaching $1,000 or more. So I pounced.

 

As with before, can someone tell me why this doesn't grade even higher ?

 

I feel just the opposite. The 66PPQ was plenty generous. Cool serial number but the margins are too uneven to merit 66, in my opinion.

 

Are you saying that the left and right and top and bottom borders are all supposed to be equal ? Ideally yes, but is that likely ?

The Left is a bit wider, but the other 3 all look about the same.

But unless one of them had the bill itself almost flush left/right/top/bottom.....should 1 millimeter really knock you down a few grades ?

 

Look how nice the margins look on @Bradley Trotter ’s 2003 FRN Ace in the post above yours. The difference is remarkable. Both 66’s.

 

Finally! I won an auction for this Hawaii note on Jan. 30th and just now got it. The seller sent this bill to winner of another auction and sent me their item, a civil war token. It has taken this long for the seller to arrange getting the bill back and sent to me.

 

Today's new pickup is a note that took a while to get, this 1923 $5 porthole silver certificate. Always in demand, I like the bold engraving on this circulated example, has all the elements just like I like them...

 

The low serial SC is very nice, and I can click the thumb nails.
But please use the full image choice when uploading photos.

 

Thanks MK.....I tried to, is it that much better/easier for you viewers ? I think the pics upload instantly from thumbnails (at least on my end they do).

Maybe not on a smartphone ?

 

I've never had a cell phone.
Stubbornorus Dinosaurus

 

Sometimes I feel like an animal shelter taking in unwanted and abused pets, this note here is no exception. The Hancock series $2 I feel is a seriously underrated design. Love the engraving on the United States here and that bushy moustache of Hancock says 'give it a tumble sport, and I'll put a boot in your ass'. As rough as it is the seal pops like crazy on here. The price was terribly low so I gave it a home, might work it into the wallet rotation...

 

View attachment 920204 My latest auction buy (Heritage not ebay), is shown below. I was very happy with the condition, consider it possibly a but undergraded. I owned one of these years ago, but traded it off. A bad decision.

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Actually, taking another look, the margin differences are easier to see on my blow-up pics above than when I look at the actual bill. It's a bit more noticeable.

 

While looking at an antique shop in Fredericksburg VA a couple weeks ago, I picked up this 57b, thinking I had bought the 57b star a month before. Not interested in doing the whole 57 series just thought it would be a nice matching set. Get home to find out I have the 57a star. Dam old brain.

 

Fantastic Black Eagle Harry...

Another dog has come to the pound, this another design that is slightly underrated (though not as badly as the Hancock SC, and with a far more boring reverse than the Hancock).

Another candidate for wallet carry, I am fairly positive I saw these notes and said "yeah, I can carry that, and if I lose it, won't be too upset, and it's not like I'm gonna add wear and tear to it and reduce the grade..."

 

@MEC2 , I'm always impressed to see the wide variety of old American banknotes you pick up regularly. Where do most of your pickups come from, if I may ask? Meaning, is it local auctions around you, online auctions, ebay? Just curious.

 

Wingnut, anythng special about that 1957B SC ? Was it graded ?

I inherited a few dozen 1957's that I put into plastic sheets...some/most of them would certainly grade as Gem CU and maybe highere, but given what they sell for in anything less than a 68 grade I'm not sure I can justify the cost. In fact, I sometimes wonder why/how people get any bills graded that are worth less than $50.

 

Nothing special, not graded just in excellent shape. Only paid 8 bucks