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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MEC2, post: 2327549, member: 38692&quot;]Today&#039;s new pickup is a very, very early obsolete, this 1816 $5 from the Kentucky Insurance Company. The earliest obsoletes are very similar in style - you can tell they were just starting to figure out how to do paper money. I&#039;m sure they thought the design was all fancy schmancy - little did they know how engraving would take off and make for the heydey of obsolete note engraving with the three dimensional cameos and exotic overprints and huge detailed vignettes. Nope, in 1816, they just wanted a piece of paper that said here&#039;s five bucks eh mac... </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/MEC2DFW/Currency/Obsoletes/KICFive.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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