Paper Money: New Acquisitions

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Lovely errors @Paddy54!

I picked up a trio of "gems" to complete my pre-Euro Baltic set from my globe trekker's collection:

1997 Lithuania:

2000 Latvia:

1994 Estonia:

 

I am starting to explore a new rabbit hole of Colonial and Continental Currency. It's a really fascinating area that gives great insight into the fiscal beginnings of our country.






The bill marks the completion of my type set of fractional currency.

 

My own little rabbit hole. I have wanted a piece of Playing Card Currency since I first read about it. This past week Heritage had a few pieces that sold reasonably enough that I was able to add 3 pieces to my collection.


France Playing Card Currency, 1877 House of Diamonds About Uncirculated.


Germany / Prussia Gold Frederick D'or 1764 Ten of Diamonds Craig # 53 About Uncirculated.


Norway Playing Card Currency 16 Skilling 1716 About Uncirculated.

 

Very nice additions

 

Love the myriad of designs on Confederate currency

 

My only graded piece of currency

 

Thank you.

 

Great "rabbit holes" to explore. @Tall Paul, @Chris B & @INDE1977 have all posted some fantastic, problem-free examples. Thanks for sharing!

 

Was at the local coin store getting basic supplies and a Christmas gift; saw these two in the "bargain bin" and had to grab them:

Paraguay, 1952 (actually issued 1963), 5 guaranies


Pretty nice condition, and didn't have anything from this country yet.

Austria, 100 schillings, 1945


Just a nice classic note in general, and also realized this note came out only 3 weeks after Germany surrendered (and I guess effectively that means Austria did too) in World War 2.

 

I asked the seller to send this to PMG for me. I was more interested in protecting the paper than I was in the grade. I wanted to get this note because I had a five dollar from the same bank, and I thought that having a one and a five from a bank that existed 166 years ago would be pretty cool.

 

This arrived yesterday.

 

I had one just like yours same grade...sold it ...and sorry ever since! Nice acquisition Paul two thumbs up on both notes above.

 

Liked the SN#

 

Aquired for less than grading cost.

 

-That's always sweet & for an AU note in EPQ! And it happens more than collectors realize (I suspect). You just have to find a true auction (& hopefully with 15% seller's fee). It also helps if there's Gems & super gems notes listed alongside the AU or UNC65/64/63 listing.

What is more common (for me) is to win "free grading." On true auctions, I have won several notes for far less than if had I bought a similar ungraded BIN* note listed on eBay (where you take your chances buying it graded by the seller). I like the assurance a TPG** note is in "such & such" grade so this works for me.

Here's a replacement from China I won for less than a regular, ungraded 50 Yuan note from 1990 listed as "UNC:"


* Buy it Now
** Third Party Graded

 

The water fall on the back is really cool

 

Yes, it is the Hukou waterfall of the Yellow River & the allegorical "Intellectual, peasant girl & worker" depicted on the front of the 50 Yuan (according to the BNM entry) I really wanted the 1980 version of the 100 Yuan (which are 1/5th as common as the 1990 versions) but the bidding went too high (I got cold feet) & settled for the replacements (above). I've often won "2nd fiddle" the less desirable notes for quite cheap (rather than the scarcer feature/tough every collectors chasing). When it comes to being a gap-filler, why not? It was what appeared as "Central Collections" last true auction on Ebay (so no buyer's premium) & I caught this smaller One Yuan with the lady farmer for the price of an ungraded one (it is a PMG 66 but I have cropped the holder off):

 

Cool, many notes have a theme or what's going on during that time period
so I think its really awesome when they tell a story