Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Well, I just received enough Greek notes to pump this thread for two weeks straight, but I want to mix it up a bit, so here are a couple nice Black Eagles I just received, both are the much harder to find 227 Lyons/Treat sigs, rarer than all but the Napier Thompson, which is about half again as common. The 227's don't pop up much, glad I got one, I framed the top one and will flip the bottom one still in the holder to some lucky contestant...

 

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contestant.?? As in "Guess how many Bank Notes I've acquirred in my collection?"

 

As in "I'm guessing a number - first person to correctly forward that number of US dollars wins".

 

"Flip" means buy and resell... Nice addition MEC.:thumb:

 

Yeah, I normally am not into that but the price was right and frankly I was shotgunning the auctions just hoping to get ONE of these. Ended up with two, so it's Thunderdome, two notes enter, one note leaves...

 

Ah... Totaly missed the "flip" part.

 

Picked up a set of remainder notes from Costa Rica, 1899





5 Pesos

 

10 Pesos

 

20 Pesos

 

Since joining ct and seeing all these world bank notes for the first time am beginning to really like the are and beauty of them.I esp am partial to the Greek and these Coasta Rica ones are quite a desirable.That $10 and $20 Coasta Rica are awesome looking i wonder what the $50 looks like.As to Mec flipin some notes you might just be able to retire from your male modeling side show job you mentioned if you keep getting lucky with these auctions.Nice additions and we'll be looking for more Greek notes tomorrow i know their coming.

 

There are lots of good looking world notes out there. The only thing keeping me from buying a lot more is that I haven't hit the lottery yet. As far as the 1899 Costa Rica notes go, I don't think they made a $50 one.

 

These may not be as nice as some of the other notes on here (DARN YOU MEC!!:devil, but I'm pleased with them:
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Does anyone else think it would have made a little more sense to put the the US Treasury building and American torch on the front and back of the engraving (white page with the $10 set) instead of the inkbell and Independence Hall? It just doesn't make sense to me to put well known features of the $100 with a set of $10's. At any rate, the sets are still really nice and I am really enjoying them. Finally, I also picked up 2 $1 Hawaiian notes both 1935A and both low grade; a C-S and a C-L and a 1957 $1 D-* which is a star block I didn't have for that series. I just now am finding out that with silver certificates and red seals, the prefix and the suffix are backwards as opposed to FRN's... So when you go to write what block of a SC you have, do you write it like D-* or *-D??

 

Here's a new Greek acquisition, a 1932 500 Drachma - it's a big note with great color, printed by the American Bank Note Company (one reason why it's so nicely engraved). That's also why those Costa Rica notes are so nice... ABNCo...

More to come of course...

 

Here goes a Greek note






1944, 200 Mil Drachmai

 

Just purchased last night on Ebay.

 

Anyone else hate how long it takes Heritage to ship you the notes you won? Grrr....

 

Okay, time to go NUCLEAR on this thread. This is an EXTREMELY rare 1928 E Mule - there are 17 known now of this, it has the micro 637 back plate. Picked this up for the cost of the non-mule. Woohoo!!

 

Nice find MEC2....I love the look of these $5 Red Seals.

 

The "We the people" part is on the current $10, at least. It's a nice engraving, though. What I noticed is that something in my set gives off a strong odor. What am I saying, I like the set, but it stinks? I guess so:too-funny:



I'm gonna get one of those red seal notes, I like those.

 

Just started collecting paper







Never issued (civil war stopped the printing up north) - 1960s/1970s restrike from original circa 1860 plate: