San_Miguel98

we should stop using the dollar bill altogether and just use dollar coins. we could call these new and improved dollar coins "new dollars". after the public complains loud enough, we switch back to the old paper dollars (u.s. dollars classic), and everybody lives happily ever after.

i just picked up an original bahraini 20 dinar note of the 1993-series. here's an original note above the unauthorized version for comparison. original: unauthorized: note the overall darker color, the top of the center title bar, the ripples around the center seal, and the closeness of the serial prefix letters.

it looks like he might actually have it in his possession. after all, he's already managed to crease it! (not to mention offer it for sale as being uncirculated)

we're still days away from the official release date, but it appears somebody already has one available for sale. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...ssPageName=WDVW

i'm all for a dollar coin, but now is a bad time. we're stuck using ugly quarters (except for maybe texas & connecticut, off the top of my head), and sacs turn an ugly poo brown. if we replace the dollar bill with a coin, we'll likely be using the first lady designs, and we'll be stuck with even more ugly money. i know it will never happen, but i think our coins should return to their older, more aesthetically pleasing designs. mercury dimes and peace dollars and such. comparing our money to what the rest of the world has....it seems we're being shafted with the mediocre.

if the total is $31.21, charge $31.00. if it's $31.23, charge $31.25. personally, i find pennies annoying when i receive them in change. the military did away with pennies a long time ago, and it's quite easy (and non-vital) to go without them. after 8 years of no pennies, i have to admit receiving my first cent in change was exciting....but now they're annoying again.

just by the pic, it looks a bit off-color. the ink looks too runny too. i've had many a bill go through the wash, and this note looks a lot worse. up close, you could check for the magnetic strip, watermark, microprinting, and the color shifting ink used on the bottom-right "100".

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nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i stand corrected i have a buddy going to uni in glasgow, and it looks like his experiences across the border are nothing more than english shopkeepers excercising their right to accept what they want.

nice notes alex! i esp. like the newer notes with the hologram strips. sorta look like giraffe seahorses if you squint your eyes a little.

it will be accepted at the bank of england for all eternity, but everywhere else depends on whether or not they feel like it. based on that, it doesn't sound like the older series notes are meant for general circulation, since the info only points to account deposits and new note exchanges. heheh...i remember old conversations about how finicky the brits are with their money. notes are supposed to be legal tender throughout the uk, but trying to spend notes from scotland only gets you dirtier and dirtier looks the farther south you try to use them. it's supposed to be even worse if you were to try paying your small-town pub tab in northern ireland pounds. my guess is that they'd know in a heartbeat if you were to try spending an old note series.

every week, i post scans my newest acquisitions on banknotebank. this is gonna be a slow month for me though, i replaced my car speakers and bought a new alarm remote. $500 in banknote money down the tube. http://banknotebank.com/user_view.aspx?id=San_Miguel98

front: Second Toronto City Hall, 1844 back: Toronto, 1854

front: The Gooderham "Flat Iron", 1892 back: Toronto, 1854

front: St. Lawrence Hall, 1850 back: Toronto, 1854

thanks to the lead by mmarotta, i received my first set of local currency. these notes were first issued in 1998, and for seven years carried the expiration date of december 31, 2000. starting this year, a new run of notes has been printed without a printed expiration. the 2000-expiration series is valid until december 31, 2005. i'll leave their selling info out of this post so this won't be an ad. but pm me for details if you want to pick up a set of your own. you receive: 1, 5, 10, and 20 dollar notes for $37 cdn.

heheh...that's the problem, they all look the same! to me, an album full of morgans looks like the same thing over and over with maybe a different mintmark here and there. i don't find that very exciting. every one of my notes are of a different design, and the lack of heft and weight means i can store them more easily in a very small space. i have about a thousand notes in my collection so far...and if they were all coins, that would be around a hundred pounds! heheh, the coin albums alone must take up a library shelf worth of space. i'm really quite impressed with a lot of the gold coin designs i've seen...but that's currently out of my budget range. the only coins i can afford to actively collect right now would be modern cheaper stuff with less than extravagant designs.

i first moved to bahrain when i was five, and i've been hopping around the world ever since. my first collection items were more like leftover fieldtrip money, and eventually went on to include leftover vacation money (which i pilfered from my parents/siblings). by 1994, i lost all interest completely and basically forgot about coins altogether. but as i was leaving korea in '98 (for the first time), i noticed a small dealer set up in my hotel lobby. what better souvenir than having a couple sets of north korean specimen notes? i've been a strictly-paper kinda guy ever since.

very interesting indeed! "zehn centavos" is a pretty peculiar combo. the serated edge hints that it used to be part of a booklet of some sort. is there anything on the back?

heheh...everybody likes to imagine having found "treasure". i feel real bad for the people inheriting their grandparent's collection thinking they're worth thousands, if not millions. i feel even worse for the dealers who have to listen to them after offering a couple bucks each for their german inflation notes/japanese invasion money.

here's the sun behind the foil:

i found this screensaver while browsing rhyk's forum, (http://www.banknotesworld.com), an active banknote forum full of goodies. it's too bad i don't understand german. anyway, the screensaver displays various amounts of falling currency with customizable effects. setting: spare change setting: in-between setting: exploded drug-lord plane if anybody wants it, click here. it comes in a zipfile with the various currency packs. enjoy! (be sure to tweak by finding the "click here for this module's settings" button. you can choose to mix the various currency packs or choose just one country at a time)

novelty coin.....someone bought a cheap die-cast replica on e-bay and recarved it "modern hobo-nickel style" to put liberty over a chamber pot. humorous maybe, but no collector value.