San_Miguel98

heheh...i still have plenty to collect. thanks to certain posts by mmarotta, i've expanded my interests to include local currencies. i've also gone into the direction of private issues, like these beatle yogi notes first pointed out by biggandyy:

local currency from ithaca, new york:

from the political group trying to establish an independent northern italy:

this is a little late for those of us who took the e-bay route, but for anyone else still wanting this note i recommend ordering them directly from the royal bank. Jack Nicklaus Commemorative Banknote Offer Group Communications The Royal Bank of Scotland plc 36 St Andrew Square Edinburgh EH2 2YB, Depot Code 045 e-mail: JWNBanknotes@rbos.com

heheh...i finally got around to adding modern american currency to my collection. now if only they'll hurry up and release the new $10 note... i'm betting that the major background color will be blue, by the way.

it sure is pretty. the front circles are supposed to depict some middle-age astronomical phenomenon that occured over the city. i'm not quite sure why they haven't gotten around to updating this note with a hologram strip yet.

with silver at $7.14 an ounce, and their notes faced at $10.00 an ounce, you can see where their fund-raising aspect comes in. even worse is their $500 gold note, backed by a $437 ounce of gold, and being sold for $550 on their website. for true commerce in metals, one might as well use http://e-gold.com. same concept, except that you purchase metals at actual market values (gold, silver, platinum, palladium). only downside is your account fluctuates in real time....so your $20.00 might be $18.75 one minute, and $23.80 the next.

several welsh private issues:

heheh...if it's not obvious, sisu selling swede commems and his recent trip had a big influence!

today was a good monday.

good luck with your note. i received mine in a flimsy oversized mailer with no cardboard support. not even a "do not bend" on the front. luckily, it wasn't damaged or bent. seller must be some average scotsman with a wad of bills and no experience in collecting. http://public.fotki.com/sanmiguel/world_ba...and/jnick5.html

because none of those guys have a retirement to commemorate, and more importantly, none of them are sponsored by the bank of scotland. jack wins on both counts.

heheh...it's a joke unk. those coins are novelty items used for magic tricks and for winning coin flips with your friends. what usually happens is someone who doesn't collect coins would find one, and think it's a major error. then he'd try selling it on e-bay for a jillion dollars, or he'd take it to a coin dealer and expect a jillion dollars.

heheh...guy sold out quick. he had 20+ for sale when i bought mine. now he's all out!

this month's adds so far:

nice saudi note! ~drool

i was impatient...settled for a £10 buy-it-now. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=47400

heheh...never heard of jack nicklaus? i'm no golfer either, but his name was on so many video games growing up, it was hard avoiding him. anyway, the bank of scotland is one of jack's major sponsors and this year's british open is his last tournament. as nike puts their athletes on shoes, and wheaties cereal puts theirs on cereal boxes, the bank decided to honor their greatest golfer's retirement with an appearance on their notes. http://www.rbs-sports.com/golf/profile1/index.aspx

yep, he's an american. the bank of scotland has been actively sponsoring golf tournaments for several years, and is now going through a golf phase on their banknotes as well. last year it was the royal & ancient st. andrews golf club commemorative, and now it's jack nicklaus. lets see what next year brings.

yikes...this note is now going for £29.00, and there are several non-creased buy-it-nows listed for less than half that!

kyrgyzstan 200 som reverse (2004), a verse from alykul osmonov's poem 'jenishbek’ Issyk Kul Lake is sometimes calm, sometimes not. When its waves beat wild their mood I share. Thinking of all the friends in life I've got, With such secret character, none is there.

they're "warehouse receipts" redeemable for silver ounce rounds stored in idaho by the private company, norfed. the southern poverty law center is investigating norfed, and it describes liberty dollars as being a fund-raising project for an "antigovernment group dedicated to tax evasion and protest". norfed = national organization for the repeal of the federal reserve act and internal revenue code more info: splc links more notes: http://public.fotki.com/sanmiguel/liberty

by the way... what's the difference between a premium copper coin, as opposed to say, super or just regular copper coins?

heheh...i suppose these types of quotes were to be expected, seeing as how the name of this site is COINpeople and all.

many thanks! it's soooo purty. what a shame that it's disqualified from being ibns' note of the year. it'd win hands down! heheh...i just found out it has this cool line of text on the front bottom: "Anyone who counterfeits this note shall be hanged; but anyone who demonstrably discovers a counterfeiter shall receive forty thousand dalers in premium copper coins, according to proclamation by His Royal Majesty on the 20th of December 1754"