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<p>[QUOTE="MEC2, post: 2873942, member: 38692"]Always like me some 28-34 stars there tw... wish I could collect more but they come up rarely anymore it seems...</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, let us look at today's new pickup shall we? Today we have a Confederate-era State of Mississippi obsolete note, this one a $20 of the Faith of the State Pledged variety. Earlier notes were stamped as Cotton Pledged, that is, cotton sale proceeds were set aside to guarantee the value of the notes. As of course things dragged on and the South's agrarian economy suffered through the war, there wasn't enough cotton to pledge against all the notes the State had to print to pay it's obligations. So, they stamped on the front what pretty much ought to be on every note today - pledged by the faith of the State. Still better than bitcoin... and this note has blue and green overprint, a train, a native with a bow next to woman harvesting in the field, something tells me those natives in traditional dress and settlers in the field didn't have such genteel interactions typically. Be careful, she'll shank a b#$ch with that shiv...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687597[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MEC2, post: 2873942, member: 38692"]Always like me some 28-34 stars there tw... wish I could collect more but they come up rarely anymore it seems... Well, let us look at today's new pickup shall we? Today we have a Confederate-era State of Mississippi obsolete note, this one a $20 of the Faith of the State Pledged variety. Earlier notes were stamped as Cotton Pledged, that is, cotton sale proceeds were set aside to guarantee the value of the notes. As of course things dragged on and the South's agrarian economy suffered through the war, there wasn't enough cotton to pledge against all the notes the State had to print to pay it's obligations. So, they stamped on the front what pretty much ought to be on every note today - pledged by the faith of the State. Still better than bitcoin... and this note has blue and green overprint, a train, a native with a bow next to woman harvesting in the field, something tells me those natives in traditional dress and settlers in the field didn't have such genteel interactions typically. Be careful, she'll shank a b#$ch with that shiv... [ATTACH=full]687597[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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