I've seen a huge increase in the amount of fantasy notes offered online in auctions and regular seller sites. These notes are not only those issued for Antarctica, Hutt river, etc., but are notes that are seemingly created for a completely fictional place and offered for sale to collectors. While I have no interest in these notes myself, the designs on some of them are quite nice, and I can understand if someone wants to collect them.
It's the sheer volume that seems to be offered is something that perks my interest most, though. Are there really that many people out there buying these that make it worthwhile to sellers to stock these fantasy notes? If so I wonder how it will evolve - such as will there be price guides, groups for fantasy notes, etc.
As part of this, I've noticed that there are quite a lot of "Reproductions" of US notes being offered as well. While these may be a nice 'filler' until a real one can be obtained, the money asked for them is, in my opinion, a little much - even for a quality reproduction of a note.
Anyone have other thoughts on this?