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Sweden, issued in 1717. This is a remainder - issued notes had several signatures on the front.

If you're more specific you might get some more responses but you just asked a question like "tell me about the planets"...there are volumes of books on it. What in particular are you interested in?

No problem - got one to sell?

Are we talking specimen or issued? Big difference. For the issued notes, I don't think they're particularly rare but the demand FAR outpaces the supply and thus these take in extremely high prices. In XF you're looking at $1,500 to $2,000. In AU $2500 - $3500. In UNC (gem) the sky's the limit - an AU+ sold in August for over $10,000. Specimens are a funny thing. World specimens aren't doing all that great right now, especially this one which is a color trial specimen. This isn't universally true but many auctions are seeing specimens at or below the lower estimate. This exact specimen note failed to sell in the NYINC auction this year with a lower estimate of $5000. So you can judge that for yourself - if you're talking about the specimen, by deduction, it would be less than $3,500, around the starting bid of that auction.

Is it a Fiume stamp? Can't really tell, it's hard to read it.

I suppose you could look at it that way!

In columns from left to right: Belgian Congo P-13Ad - VFnet condition (small stain) - Value is somewhere between $75 and $85. France P-116a - VF-XF condition - $1.50 Cuba P-69b or d (I can't tell if the date is 1936, 1938 or something else) - VG condition at best - Value is dependent on that date. If it's 1936, the value is $35 - $50. If it's 1938 value is somewhere around $20. Japan P-77a - VG condition, maybe F net due to the staining - Value is very high in the catalog - these can be had much lower, but the catalog value is $25. Not a rare note at all. Finally, Netherlands P-64 - VG condition and value not much more than $1. Hope that helps. Again, I gave you catalog values. The catalog is increasingly inaccurate and I would say that the Japan and Cuba notes can be had much lower. The Belgian Congo value is pretty accurate.

They issued this series in two different versions, one in Serbian (Cyrillic), one in Bosnian (Roman), as I recall. In this Serbian issue, if you look at the name of Ivo Andric, they used the wrong letter to spell Andric's name. My understanding is that this was very offensive to the Serbian-speaking population of Bosnia. The last letter, which is written on the note as ђ should actually be ћ. They are two completely different letters. The 5 convertible mark note also has an error, although it wasn't this blatant. On the reverse of both language notes, they used only the Roman spelling of five, "PET" rather than "PET" for the Bosnian and "ПET" for the Serbian.

A seemingly humble note, this is an extremely rare note. Unissued except for a very, very few which were released before errors were reported, the vast majority of this issue was withdrawn, gathered up, and destroyed. I take this as the only way I'd get this note without it costing me thousands of dollars.

Picked these two up recently. Both pretty rare notes, especially the 25 rubles from 1899. Now, all I'm missing from the 1898-99 issue is the 5 ruble.

Wow those are gorgeous. I'm heading to Munich with a visit to Detlef Hilmer this weekend....can't wait to post the notes I get...while a bit on the pricey side, they've always been willing to negotiate and have the best selection in retail that I've ever seen. Bar none. Not an endorsement, just an observation!

Heritage sells a lot of these. In the US, about $150.

I couldn't believe it when I pulled these out of one of my local store's inventory today: He also had a couple of date varieties of these notes (an 1866 5 ruble for example) that I bought as well. For those of you that don't do Russia, these are SO hard to come by in the States, especially in a retail store. I've only ever seen the 1 and 3 ruble 1866-1886 notes offered at a store or show here in the US. So excited...!

Hmm...interesting topic - of course this is largely subjective...here's some from Africa. Sekou Toure of Guinea Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire: and the infamous Idi Amin of Uganda:

Disclaimer: I do NOT own a 100 orchid note. I would suggest contacting Mavin or maybe someone like John Pettit (he's out of Sydney, Australia) who can, at the very least, put you in contact with a Singapore expert. My first inclination is that IF you sell them, sell them as a group or two groups, one for each stack. Reason being that if you try to piecemeal them out 1 by 1 you could single-handedly destroy the market for these notes - that would be bad for you and bad for anyone who has invested in them. If you break them up I wouldn't be surprised if you only get a fraction of the quoted values each because you will have just made the population much larger than previously known, unless you do it over a very long period of time (like, 10 years or more because you have so many). This happened to the Swiss 1000 and 500 franc notes from the '70s at Memphis a few years back - guy had hundreds of them and wanted full retail - didn't sell a single one at that price. If you sell them as a group I suspect that you will make more but it won't be in the range of $400 or $250 x 200 - unless you have the Swee notes - then you could be talking serious, serious cash. I could be wrong about all this but that's what my gut is telling me.

Very nice guys! Just got these from the recent LKCA Spring Sale: Jersey P-2a (1 shilling, 1941) Uzbekistan P-17a (3000 tenge, 1918) ... ... and P-24 (10,000 tenge, 1919)

I just finished putting my website together and until I get a proper domain name, it's at this slightly hokey website address: http://papermoney.net84.net/ As a highlight to my newest acquisitions, here's a sampling that I picked up from the Maastricht show in late April: The whole Slovenia 1990/1 set from P-A1 to P-10 (see PA1 and P-9A below - I love the orange-ish coloring of that note) New Zealand 10/- from 1934: And these awesome Italian, long thin notes (P-86, 87): And finally, my favorite Haiti note (P-15): I think I got about 50 notes at the show. Had an opportunity to buy a Gilbert and Ellice Islands note buy the 14,000 euro pricetag was a bit too steep for me.

I found another example that I completely missed the first go-around. I don't know if this was intentional, however because the state of Florida's seal has the words "In God We Trust" (the normal motto we think of), it lies in there as an early use of the motto too, technically I suppose. The earliest Florida nationals I am aware of are series 1875 $5 nationals. The seal below is from a $10 1882 brown back. So let's not forget these!

Thanks for the warm welcome. I've read the posts here for many years but never had the urge to post. I've been collecting for about 15 years, mainly world paper money, but this topic is one that's interested me for many years. Eventually I'd like to own one of each of the designs I've mentioned but that'll probably take about $75k-$100k (in modest condition) and at 25 years old I've got a lot of better things to do with that kind of money!

If you want to find out what notes first featured the motto "In God We Trust" you have to go back to when this motto was first announced. The Star Spangled Banner, written during the war of 1812, includes at the end of the 4th stanza, "Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto -- "In God is our trust." This motto, slightly different from the phrase we know and love today, actually first appeared on U.S. currency in 1863, on the $20 and $100 bills. The $100, an utterly rare note, of which only three are known, shows this motto in the shield of "The Guardian" in the lower left (see the closeup). Interestingly, this same image appeared on the 1864 issue (a compound-interest note) with the "In God is our Trust" removed. (see next closeup) The 1863 $20 note shows the same motto on a very tiny shield in the lower right corner of the note. The 1864 issue of THIS note as a compound interest note does still feature these words. Evidently it was initially used to show that God was on the side of the Union soldiers during the Civil War. The Mint received the designs in 1863 and legislation passed to put it on cents and two-cent pieces (not sure how they were authorized for currency at that time). The designs here were done by Salmon Chase, of other banknote fame (see treasury notes). The phrase was officially changed to "In God We Trust" in 1956 and in 1956 the law that is more commonly known authorized "In God We Trust" to appear on all paper money too. Why the 1935G (some) and 1935H notes carry the motto and cross-over signatures is clearly explained above - two different methods of printing the notes. I hope this is informative!