Scottishmoney

No pics, but at my credit union the lovely young teller had a series 1953 $5 SC awaiting my purchase.

The La Louisiane notes are probably not as rare as the Vermont - they were issued during the South Sea Bubble time so there are probably more around than the Vermonts. What I find fascinating with colonials is since the run up to the Bicentennial in 1976 some hoards of some formerly quite scarce notes have flooded the market - notably the Carolinas. NC notes are so flipping common now, even into the 1750s. There have been some archival finds of Maryland and Delaware, the latter printed by the Ben himself, that have turned up in smaller numbers than the NC notes - but formerly prohibitive 1733 dated notes from Maryland from the London made plates have slipped into auctions in the past few years. My one Delaware 20/- from 1746 was printed by Benjamin Franklin in his print shop in Philadelphia - years before he brought in David Hall as an apprentice and later partner. I collect them primarily for the history, family links to the Revolution etc - not because they are particularly rare or pretty - they sure are not really lovely notes, no attractive females or nice designs certainly. But the whole leaf print thing started by Franklin adds to the allure of them - he figured out that leaf prints could not be duplicated - no leaf is the same as the other - so otherwise you would have to do a clumsy looking woodcut to duplicate a leaf pattern. On your notes you can clearly see that in the colonies on the borders of civilisation that the printing and ornamentation clearly were much more spartan in the Carolinas and Georgia than in the northern colonies. I nearly bid on a 1789 Charleston note recently, not sure why I didn't. Another aspect that is fun with the signatures is to research the signers and even the printers of the notes. Some would turn out to be Tories and later fled to Britain or Canada. Others such as Hugh Gaines somehow managed to slip through the dragnet of popular opinion of the time and remain in their business long afterwards - he printed the NYC corporation notes of 1790. I have a couple of Ben Franklin printed notes, some Hugh Gaines, and some famous signers - Laommi Baldwin(war hero and horticulturalist who discovered the Baldwin apple) and John Hart(signer of the Declaration of Independence).

Nice New Hampster note Dave - amazing to think that the note had a nearly 12 year payout time period planned in 1776 - at least there in New Hampster they are honest about how long it will take to pay a debt. Holders of the 1780 Continentals were only finally paid by 1812, and then only 1% of the original debt after the bonds issued in the 1790s were paid up. Sometime I want to finish my colonies, I still have Vermont, New Hampshire, Georgia, N and S Carolina to go. Curiously enough I have a Maine item from 1758 that is probably much scarcer than Vermont even.

Nice images Stef - you have an eye for nice coins.

From collecting British notes - the size reductions over the last century are pretty dramatic.

One big thing - Ted Kennedy is out of the picture - his "in" with Crane and Co was a big factor in keeping paper money from being changed more than Crane and Co could handle. Kennedy did a fantastic job of looking out for his donors and people in Massachusetts. Cannot say the rest of the country benefited so much though.

Vedy vedy nice!

Rod - I collect medals from World's Fairs - especially the 1904 St Louis fair - amazing how few boxes and paperwork are available for the medals - I did buy one on eBay once curiously enough from a seller in Great Britain and for a pittance of a price. I also collect the 1918-1920 Memorial Plaques or "death pennies" with original paperwork and it is even much more difficult to find them - but I did find the original mailer, paperwork etc for an American soldier that served in the Royal Army during the war.

Yeah, that is a medal I would buy

That was the first year those were minted - I don't think I have ever found one in circulation dated before 1929. I can sort of see getting one of the GVI coins since the beaver reverse is the same - but those GV coins have the numeral reverse.

I have spied GVI coins in donation bins several times. Cannot imagine spending a 61+ year old coin, but I guess a lot of people don't care. That way I find GVI 10c coins in reject slots of coin machines occasionally.

I only own one known pattern, a 25 RPF from Germany that was created by Karl Goetz: The seller of said piece described it as a token and sold it to me for something like $8-10.

Still working on this, no bobs from either country dated 1940 - lots of '39s and 41s though, have both threenubs, the tanner an' a florin. The pennies an haepennies are going to be a bit longer - there are many thousands of them to go through.

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There are no specifically Scottish coins after 1707 - but there were "Scottish" shillings that were minted from 1937-70 that have a different reverse with the Scots lion instead of the English one. I have many thousands of British coins in a rather sizable accumulation that I am at current sifting through for dispersal soon. I know I have coins of both dates - nae sure of finding complete sets of the 1900 though. 1940 is a wee bit easier, do bear patience an' I'll get back to ya with what I hae.

One a little near and dear - I spend these in circulation and Lesya Kosach aka Ukrainka was a foremost poet and author in Ukrainian literature:

Indeed they are - of course the British went about trying to duplicate them during the Revolution - but they show up as heavily inked and not realistic in appearance. One printed in Ben Franklin and David Hall's shop - by Mr. Hall no doubt as Franklin had become a passive owner of the printing shop by then.

The one I own, curiously enough from Hiroshima prefecture, is printed on some sort of rice substrate type stuff that may have another substance in it too like mulberry bark.

Authors: Kirsten Flagstad Sigrid Unsted who was actually Danish, but immigrated to Norway at a young age.

250th anniversary of Tumba Bruk Printing House:

Hemp paper and intaglio printing - sounds like something I need to research more for a little project I am involved with in Maine - where people are a bit more attuned to doing things in a tried and true fashion.

On Monday a 1919 Lincoln in my change when I bought a hot chocolate through the drive-thru of a well known fast food restaurant. I hope I look so good whence I am 94 years young.

How about when they are printed by a well known figure in American history - a man of writing, politics, inventions: Certainly not my prettiest or highest graded note - but this one packs a lot of historical punch - because it was printed personally and handled by the Man - Benjamin Franklin himself.

It would really be cool to find a post war occupation coin from Germany that had been overstruck.

One thing I have wondered about is the early ie the pre-1940 coins that were struck in aluminium bronze - could they have seen some circulation in Germany after the DM was introduced - they were very similar compositions to the DM era pfennig coins - especially the 10pf coin. I never saw any coins dated before 1950 in circulation in Germany when I was there - even though there were 1948 and 1949 Bank Deutscher Lander coins circulated at that time. Austria went back to the schilling and kept the minor coins but despite discussion of revaluing the schilling they never did. So it kept the old 1:1 value with the older RM. Curiously I was reading that there is an passage in the current German constitution about the possibility of Austria joining Germany in a Federation - a bit curious that such was allowed after the Allied Control Commission that oversaw everything in Germany from 1945-1990.