What's your oldest US Note ?

There's some info here about the notes with the hand/thorn bush

Colonial Currency: A Project of the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment University of Notre Dame Department of Special Collections

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RickieB;
I have a note from the same bank ( The State Bank of New Brunswick) but mine is patented three years after yours, a different look altogether. It also was printed by the National Bank Note Company as opposed to yours by the American Bank Note Company. The cashier signatures are the same however. I don't have much history on it and was wondering if you could PM me with any information you have on the bank and years of operation. I'm basically a coin guy, so my personal library on this type of collectible is very limited.

 

Whew, quite a mouthful, Thanks Chris

 

Yep

 

Krispy,your a human search engine ! Do you work for Google,you are amazing at your speed to find a link .
What search engines do you use for these insightful answers & links ?:thumb:

 

Gosh! Thanks... I am rather a Google nut! LOL. As a tool for finding information, logistics (mapping), analytics, books, documents, image file storage, multi-language translation and search... Google it is just endlessly impressive to me. Of course not everything is ON-line and we still need our books and social relationships to share knowledge and experience... I always loved using search databases, inter-library loan systems, hunting through college library stacks, micro-fiche... Google sort of brings it all together. I have a vast amount of nested folders in my browser bookmarks as you might imagine. :smile

However, in this instance, I already had a few select book marks I'd come across on the subject of Colonial currency. I am interested in the early printed examples of our currency but haven't gotten into collecting anything yet since I have very little knowledge about that area of paper money collecting. I haven't bought the Krause book The early paper money of america by Eric Newman yet but it's near the top of my books-to-buy and reading list. I keep seeing intriguing examples of early notes and have studied some of them in Heritage's auction archives.

My FRN district collection, interest in Silver Certificates, modern notes technological advancements and general ABNCo interests have greatly expanded my paper collection knowledge. The early currency is another mystery that I need more education on so is a goal of mine going forward and will likely soon add to my list of wants...

 

here's my oldest note

 

I just recently bought a 1907 20$ gold certificate graded very good 7 these notes showing on here are spectacular.

 

I hope you guy's do not mind me re-posting these..I am a true nut case over Large Size Brown Seals...these are all Series 1880 Red Serial Number Notes..by far not the oldest but fit into this Thread.











Regards,

RB

 

They may be old notes, but they never get to my eyes... Post away!

 

I love those large Brown seals & the notes are such high grade & color.

 

$1 Rhode Island

Unsigned & not Dated but old obsolete Rhode Island,Sorry for the blurry Jpeg image .

 

1858 Augusta Ga.

Not my oldest but a 1858 Augusta ,Georgia

 

Detroit Obsolete

Date ? Unsigned - Detroit obsolete .

 

Michigan Obsolete

Unsigned /undated Michigan Obsolete ?

 

Bob you've been holding out on us! You have quite a few beautiful old notes!

Is that $1 Mechanics note "No. 4444" technically a repeater?

 

Maryland 30 Dollar Note, September 26th, 1778.

 

Krispy..you can say that again.. Connor1's collection never ceases to amaze me!! Nice notes Connor!!!


RB

 

Thanks,Obsolete Repeter ,never have thought of that but I guess it is.
I use to collect just obsoletes when I started Paper money collecting,Just found them in the computer & thought I'd show them,have to make a trip to the safety deposit box & see what else I forgot from years ago.

 

Thanks Rick,coming from you & your collection I appreciate that ! Like coins I am a type collector and just bought what I liked ,so it continued into my paper collecting I guess,keeps me intrested and always looking for something new.:high5: