San_Miguel98

i picked up a small wad of dinars at the bazaar today. why? to give them away, of course! if you want one, go here: http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=14485

yup, i joined that group in may 2005...one month before first posting this original thread! the message board is pretty slow, but they post lots of pictures and have links to the different known test notes. by slow, i mean since february 2006 only 30 messages/responses have been posted. the bad thing about collecting test notes is that the different security printers don't cater to collectors...ie- they won't sell you a note if you e-mail them about wanting one. they print test notes to show off their security features to prospective clients, and only a limited amount are printed. so...most test notes just sorta show up on ebay, with the majority of the sellers being in germany or the netherlands. it's hard to find particular notes for sale besides the more common series like the "giori one pass" note. one of these days somebody will have that jules verne note for sale, and hopefully i'll be there to spot it!

wow, old post! while i still haven't found the jules verne note i first posted, i did manage to find this beauty from a seller on e-bay, (the same one selling slovenian "lips" ): i can't wait to see it in person!

lol...i had no idea the united states' payments to other governments in the 1960's included "secret book of redemption" certificates printed with color clip-art images and scribble fonts. i also had no idea bep wrappers had portraits printed on them.

maybe it's his keyboard/computer. u.s. keyboards are defaulted to show the '$' symbol, korean pc's show the won,and japanese show the yen. makes sense that a british one shows the pound. to use a different symbol than the default, you'd have to look up the code, like alt + 0163. sometimes i get lazy and just write out 'pounds' or 'euro' rather than look up the code.

excellent notes! i especially like the reverse of that c-note. it's notes like these that are getting me to focus my collection a lot more to the u.s. side as opposed to the rest of world. i'm slowly crossing over...maybe temporarily, maybe not. as for display recommendations, i've been using fotki.com. i found it several years ago and liked it so much i decided to upgrade my free account to a paid one. it lets me show public photo galleries, password-protected galleries, and hidden private galleries. with unlimited account space, i loaded my entire collection to the public area and use my private area to host pictures for use other websites...like my avatar and signature bar. they also just added a new feature allowing for video. http://public.fotki.com/sanmiguel/world_banknotes/ another popular site i've seen in use is flickr. i've never used them, so i can't really comment on their features. but from what i've seen....it looks pretty snazzy! http://flickr.com/photos/tiffibunny/sets/72157594222116556/ also, there's always good ol' banknote bank! http://www.banknotebank.com/user_view.aspx?id=UkrainaDvi

any luck with developing the pictures? also, make sure the note they have is exactly the same size as a regular 1-dollar bill.

yeah, you can't really compare the two. error notes are usually missprinted legal banknotes that sometimes escape scrutiny and quality control checks and make their way to the public/collectors. a $100,000 banknote is u.s. government property, and has no business being in the hands of somebody not working in the u.s.treasury/federal reserve bank. there's no such thing as accidentally misplacing one of these. if it's out, somebody stole it with intention.

for the 1933 $20...i think the story is some worker stole around twenty pieces and replaced them with his own coins from earlier years. so the books listed all coins accounted for, and they believed all pieces destroyed. he smuggled them out, and sold them to collectors and a king...whose coin is the only one legal to own, i think. i've heard of the 1964 peace dollar...but i'm not too familiar with the illegal SBA. but back to the $100,000 note...it was never made available to the public. it's sole purpose was to facilitate the transfer of large sums of money between the federal reserve system. if one made it out of the system and into the hands of someone in the public, that's federal grand theft. i'm not too familiar with buying/selling stolen property...but if you pay someone for a $100,000 note and the government finds out, i'm sure they would get their stuff back and not reimburse your loss.

my pleasure. it took a little while to send them to you though...partly to get them, partly to check for dupes, and partly because i sent them out only to have it returned to me because it was too thick and they wanted a customs form!

I'm agreeing with Brett. But who knows? The 1933 Saint Gaudens wasn't available to the public either. You either have an illegal ultra-rarity, (very highly unlikely), or a copy, (much more likely). Can you show us some of the pictures you took? It'd be a lot easier to answer if we could see the actual notes/serial numbers. Just searching EBay, I came up with this : http://cgi.ebay.com/1934-100-000-Wilson-GOLD-CERT-Copy-New-Example_W0QQitemZ200073356459QQihZ010QQcategoryZ40030QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcm dZViewItem It's possible you might have one without "COPY" stamped on the bottom. Welcome to Coinpeople!

Heheh...yeah, the whole purpose of the pogs was to save on shipping costs on getting coins down here. Same reason why pennies aren't used on overseas bases. So for Iraq/Kuwait/Afghanistan...thin, light, plastic pogs was the solution they came up with. I think some of the designs are pretty cool, but I hate using them personally. Actually, a lot of people I know hate using them! AAFES sometimes won't take damaged pogs, they won't take large quantities of them at the same time, and the post office won't accept them at all. The payment of choice around here is either credit/debit cards or "Eagle Cash" rechargeable payment cards. No loose change to worry about! A lot of pogs end up being hoarded, then turned in for cash at Finance at the end of the deployment. Also, they're pretty handy for tipping the baristas at the Green Bean Coffee (AAFES Starbuckish joint).

the last newest additions i'll be having for a while:

hmmm...I've been neglecting my collection for the last two months. These new additions should keep it happy! http://www.banknotebank.com/user_view.aspx?id=San_Miguel98

oddly enough, i purchased my reb notes from a yankee dealer in boston! (denlys.com) you can save quite a bit by taking notes with "minor" imperfections...the twenty i bought is cut-cancelled, and the fifty was cut improperly near the top. besides that, the notes were more or less perfect, and they both cost less than the "problem-free" ten dollar note that isn't as bright.

moving deeper into pre-modern territory...

i'm a sucker for smoking, and for collecting...but i never let my two vices meet. more: http://banknotebank.com/user_view.aspx?id=San_Miguel98

more arrivals from the previous splurge http://banknotebank.com/user_view.aspx?id=San_Miguel98

no idea....but this is the third note like this i've seen. every single one of them had the same eb61 serial prefix. whatever happened must have affected a whole sheet!

my first-ever error note:

thanks doo!

thanks! i sorta went a little wild to celebrate a recent promotion, and i might've splurged just a little. heheh...after the dust settles, i don't think i'll be doing any buying for a bit.

it's official...i can no longer afford to eat. http://banknotebank.com/user_view.aspx?id=San_Miguel98

it's quite a curious position to be loaded with tons of cash but being unable to spend any of it.

and of course, regular banknotes: