Paper Money: New Acquisitions

Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it. The educational $1.00 is a lot more complex in-hand; I can see why they didn't last long as a design.

 

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Bonniview - I don't recall it taking that long, but I live in Dallas so I just pick them up at their office here.

AND I finally got one of my Greek notes that takes forever because... they mail it from Greece. Add postal service to the list of things the Greeks are not good at. But they are good at having neat stuff on their currency! All the old coins are awesome. This note is from 1927, a bit bigger than modern US currency, with quality engraving because... it's another ABNCo note. Happy to get this in this quality, not very rare but not common either. Note the red overprint, the bank changed from the National Bank of Greece to Bank of Greece but there weren't notes prepared so they issued them and put the red stamp overprint on them. Add banking to the list of things the Greeks are not good at...

 

And the mailman shows up in the nick of time to assure I have at least two more days of new pickup posts. Hooray, mailman...

Continuing my quest to aquire early small size stars, here's a pretty rare pickup. Not alot of these floating around, plus, it's a lime seal, always a plus! Crisper in hand than it looks at first too...

 

Nice '34 star mec....Are you putting together a district and series year set for older stars?

 

Bonni - I am collecting stars and limes from all 1928-1934 series, focused on $5 through $20, getting what I can and upgrading when available.

Speaking of, here's a new uncommon $20 that fills an empty spot in the collection. It's a candidate to be upgraded in the future, but for now, it's another empty slot hat is now filled...

 

Been a little while since I posted some new notes. Here's the latest, enjoy!!

 

A few obsoletes and a Series 541 replacement MPC.

 

Whew, postman bailed me out again by delivering this note... only the 2nd Type 2 $20 on this bank. Got it for my Mom for Christmas, she was born here...

 

Yet another funny back at a price too good to pass up. This time a 1928 - a series I don't have.



I'd call it AU 50. Only one light fold to the left of the portrait.

 

Picked up some neat German WWI and post WWI notes:

These first two have a similar characteristic: on the front of both the torn 1910 50 Mark and the 1914 20 Mark there is a "T" located just after the top heading "Reichsbanknote" and this same letter "T" is located just before the top serial number on the back. What is that? It's not on any of the others.

 

Here are two 1922 10,000 Mark notes with consecutive serials. Pretty nice shape.

Following is a 5,000 Mark note, also 1922

 

Two 1914 5 Mark notes

 

Two 1917 5 Mark notes, and an awesome 20 Mark note issued Feb. 20, 1918. Not long before Germany's surrender. Love the military vignettes on this note!

The quick snaps I took don't do the colors justice.

 

And the postman delivers again. New notes in today. Might as well lead off with this, yes it's lime but more importantly it's a 1928-C note, only Chicago and San Francisco were released, and I have both now.

 

Here are a few recent additions

first up, got this from a forum member on another site.

 

Then this...





MPC replacement

 

i'm always looking for star notes at the bank, in my spare time. imagine my surprise when i found this 2006 new york b...* staring back at me...



my first serial mismatch error!

 

Wow! Did you really find this in circulation? Jackpot!

 

Outstanding mismatch find Wacky, they're a welcome surprise these days!

 

@funkee-
i certainly did. i pulled it out of my teller drawer at the bank where i work. i knew the mismatch error existed beforehand, and i always check my 2006 b...* notes for it. this is the first one i've seen irl though.

@kookoox10-
i didn't really expect any more of these to be roaming about in the wild, after having searched for over a year and collecting almost $300 worth of $1 stars. i'm not sure if the condition is good enough to consider having it graded but i would imagine it would be around vf-xf. i'm still amazed. usually i find a low run star or something especially rare out of circulation, and it's beat all to ****.

edit: the **** is supposed to be h-e-double-hockey-sticks.