Dave

Nice flock. This is a cool set.

Great note Dave M! This is the first time I have actually taken a good look at one of these notes. I quite like it.

Congratulations!

Series 1934A 5 and 10 dollar silver certificates in XF Condition - North Africa issue

Thanks for the link! Nice to compare them - the banknote image is better though!

Another very cool note Dave M! Congrats on procuring this fine example. I couldn't tell - Is there a cyclops depicted with his one central eye?

That is very interesting, indeed! You are a great banknote detective, finding these long forgotten historical connections. Good Job!

Baxuss - Nice set of French Polynesians there - Good Falklands too, though I wish their designs were not all the same. If they were, I'd probably have some.

Santiago - Thanks again for expounding on the notes history. Your specimens are very nice, indeed. I'd seen one in a catalogue, but thoguh it said that it was perforated, I couldn't see it. Now that I've seen yours, I could pick out the 'white on white' perforations in the catalogs photo. Thanks for sharing these - my favorite area of interest in banknotes if French influenced African notes.

MauMauNotes - another impressive note with that Albanian 2000 Leke.

And Congratulations on the new kid - I wonder how many kids have taken a pen to the Maze Design on the back of that note. haha Don't let your kid have at it too soon!

Almost a year has gone past - Not much happened here, but I'll close the year with this for Columbus Day.

It's a Spanish Fiesta here lately! I've received the last of my three Spain notes today: A 5 Pesetas note from 1945

Hola, Senior Madison! Mighty nice Spain notes you've got there!

Do you have a copy of "The Currencies of China"? It's a pretty in depth 1920s contemporary banker's view of currencies and coinage circulating / used.

No I do not. I haven't heard of it before you posted this. I did a search and downloaded a free pdf from Archive.org and will look into it. Thanks for the recommendation. I will likely buy one - Amazon has a "real" book for sale that is reasonable. - Thanks for the recommendation.

I do have a copy (PDF from Archive.org and Real from Amazon) of "Certain Old Chinese Notes or Chinese Paper Money" by Andrew McFarland Davis (1915) which is a good book, but deals mainly with notes before the republic era (before 1911).

This is a great note MauMauNotes! I've always like this note a lot. I've been looking for the 10,000 note as well, but its very hard for me to find one, and when I do it's usually circulated and well more than I want to pay! Perhaps just get two of these 5,000 notes and call it even, eh?

Congrats!

I almost forgot to ask: Do you know if the letter X on this note is a replacement indicator or simply a block letter?

Neat notes Dave. Are they as large as the images make them appear?

No, THey are actually a bit larger. about 10 inches long by 3 inches wide. The larger one is 3/16 of an inch more.

Very interesting. I find the denomination to be a bit confusing since "copper dollar" to my understanding is a reference to the 10-cash / 1-cent coins.

That was a mystery to me too, so I consulted with an expert on Chinese banknotes, Erwin Meyer. Erwin is one heck of a great guy with an amazing amount of knowledge and understanding of the language, culture, and history of China and their currency. He explained that the (translated) phrase is simply Copper Money, 1 Diao (diao=String). The other note doesn't have the copper character, but it is merely a shortened method of stating the same thing, and is still evidently dealing with copper units. For me, translating the charachters is one thing, but putting them into context is quite another - as with any language.

Thought I'd share these two remainder banknotes from China - used in the same city, but issued by different companies, and printed by two other companies, these similar notes were denominated in 1 copper diao (string) during the chinese republic period. I bought these notes due to their similaries with obvious differences and to show the printing styles and practices of issuing similar currency at that time period.

Today the mail brought this note. 1943 Spain 5 Pesetas - Queen Isobel on front and Columbus planning his voyage on the back.

It is. Spain had a number of notes devoted to the age of exploration that i've been trying to piece together. This is one of three in the series I recently bought... the other two should be arriving in the next few days.

Will have a couple Spanish notes coming in over the next few days. Here's a 1943 1 Peseta:

It's actually very small - 3 5/16 inches long by 2 5/16 inches high.

Nice note DF911 - That's quite a lot of neat designs on this set of notes.

Received this Pbsolete note in the mail today: 1846 5 Dollars, Bank of Havre de Grace, Maryland:

Nice Sao Tome & Principe set there, MMMM! I didn't know about the two threaded versions. That'll have me looking closer to them in the future.

I agree with Art above. Nice notes. I've always prefered the top Zebra note to the second note. Congrats!

Nice note MMMM from my country. Nice to see

I love large notes! They are so big, and I try to imagine a transaction being made with them, wondering where and how a shopkeeper or vendor would have kept them - a till with a big drawer I suppose. or very large pockets for very large wallets. I always seem to think of an over the top comical sketch like one from Carol Burnette or Monty Python.

This came in the mail as a gift from Marvin in Germany, a very pleasant surprise!

 

That's very nice! I don't think I've seen a 50 Mark note in that series before. Thanks for showing it!

Fantastic lion/lioness vignette.

I agree. I can't imagine why I don't have a Rhosedian note yet, but I don't. I really like the images on this one.

The Red S:

To make printing more economical, there were several types of currency that were experimental issues. Of these, the latest we are aware of is the famous Web Press notes that were printed on a different type of printing press. These were last printed in series 1988A, 1993 and 1995. But there are several other types out there as well. Some are denoted only by the series year and the alpha characters on either side of the banknote, such as the 1928B YB and ZB banknotes. But in WWII (and in this notes case), there was a red R and a red S printed on the lower right hand side of the front of the notes. 1,184,000 of each type R & S were printed and released into circulation. Evidently, there was no useable data to make the experiment worthwhile, but the nice R and S does make them sought after notes.

I've tried digging up more information on the different details on the experiments, but have only came up with the 1928B when they switched to 75% linen and 25% cotton recipe.