Dave

Now that's a cool note! Way to go Jtryka - Congrats on that super addition to your collection!!!

Cheap and fun. Greek note!

Yean those training notes are likely just cheaply printed notes with some random hand stamps on them. I did some research, and there is actually a society for fake notes. The USNS Unrecognized States Numismatic Society.

Got the last note to finish up a circulated set of the Hawaii issues in WWII. It's better in hand than the scan, which is kinda off a bit.

Nice notes, Cemars and MMMM!

I've not cared for the Turkish notes as of late, but those are a lot better!

It's interesting that the Brazilian note has three zeros instead of a 100 in the left corner. I suppose its an aid to the blind?

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?

Two more for today: 1936 China 1 Yuan - Central Bank and 1914 China 5 Yuan - Bank of Communications

@cemars. Thanks. It's the rest of the set that I can't find though.

@jtryka. Thanks. I've wanted one for a while. Prices don't seem to come down on these though. But I do like it.

Cool notes D F 911. I really want a set of those new Turkmenistan notes. Hard to get though.

Finally got a large sized national for my collection.

Don't know about an error or not. The earlier notes were so ornate, maybe in the redesign they never noticed it due to the amount of design that was cut out. I looked on an earlier note and couldn't see a (prominent) crescent and star myself. I'm sure I missed it somewhere.

Thanks Siluska! That's quite interesting. Your description speaks to the turmoil that was going on in Europe then.

Great noes, Baxuss. I like those big notes too!

Nice set of low serial numbers on those Kuwait notes, too!

Well I wasn't expecting this for at least another week, but this came in today. Must've skipped through customs and their usual week long delay.

This is Spain 1 Peseta from 1940. Despite the depictions of these notes, they are quite small. This one measures at 3 7/8 inches long by 2 inches high. This completes the set I was collecting of notes depicting Columbus that Spain issued in the 1940's.

Beautiful note Madison. Nice to have the stub as well!

Nice set of notes. I hadn't realized that the French printed any Romanian notes.

I got this one in the mail today for my type set (bought off eBay). Pretty cool legend on the back which states:

 

This note is a legal tender at its face value in payment of all debts public and private except when otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract

 

 

An awesome note! Congrats!

Wow-nice set of notes Baxuss! I like them all. Are you going to get all the country issues for the Central African states?

Nice note Dave, Do you now have all the "Experimentals"? Also, I think they were testing the paper on that version, do see any difference compared to other notes durring that time?

I qdont have ALL the experimentals, but I do have the R ans S ones. I might go for the ores at some point, but for now I'm going to focus on a couple other areas. As for a difference - well my first impression of the S was that there was nothing discernible. And that was to be expected, as the whole experiment was evidently unconclusive (I haven't found anything to state what the REAL differences were in the first place) .. But when I got the R not I was at first thinking it was a bit thinner. I at first dismissed this as it is a VF grade (sold as VF-xf) while my S is a Au-unc. I will try to get some time this evening to better compare them side by side.

Okay so I took another look at them both tonight, side by side .... While I first thought that the R was thinner than the S, I was wrong, and the notes, aside from being in different grades, have otherwise the same texture, feel, and thickness - as far as I am able to tell, anyway.

Nice 50 Dirhams note MMMM - looks like you caught a falcon as well. I really like this note - the building is pretty cool with the concentric circular levels.

Are there more experimentals other than the R and S? I must know!

There are - I don't have my book in front of me, but as I remember there are the 1928A and B series with the Y-B block (Y: prefix and B: suffix of the serial numbers) and the 1928A series (B too?) Z-B block. Then the 1935 series A-B Block. I believe all the Web Press notes are considered experimental notes. I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

A new notes in march

Portugese Guinea

- France

At first glance, these two follows could be brothers!

Nice notes!

Nice note Dave, Do you now have all the "Experimentals"? Also, I think they were testing the paper on that version, do see any difference compared to other notes durring that time?

I qdont have ALL the experimentals, but I do have the R ans S ones. I might go for the ores at some point, but for now I'm going to focus on a couple other areas. As for a difference - well my first impression of the S was that there was nothing discernible. And that was to be expected, as the whole experiment was evidently unconclusive (I haven't found anything to state what the REAL differences were in the first place) .. But when I got the R not I was at first thinking it was a bit thinner. I at first dismissed this as it is a VF grade (sold as VF-xf) while my S is a Au-unc. I will try to get some time this evening to better compare them side by side.

Was looking for this in AU, but it seems to go from VF straight to UNC in higher grades and too much money - so here it is in VF grade. At least I finally got one of them. Been looking for way too long.

Neat note, MMMM. I like the odd creature hybrid on the reverse.... Whatever it is, I don't think I'd want to run into one.