Dave

WoW! Those are awesome notes, my man! Every one of them. Good job!

Wow! Those are some really impressive notes you have there! Good choices on all of those.

Received three silver certs today from Blackhawk today. Great service as always!

Today I got home from my National Guard duty to find these two waiting for me: 1944 Morocco 10 Francs..... I really like older Morocco notes. And then this one from Equatorial Guinea - This series is my favorite from this country.

This is Ghana 1 Cedi P5.

Yeah, I know that Pick is the better term - I just got used to calling them all Krause - I should probably make that a new year's resolution. I have the Specialised Issues catalogue and they are Pick #s S697,s682,S698 Blue, and S698 Gray. Curiously the one labled as S682 is supposed to be Orange according to the catalogue, but it really is more of a pink color. I pretty much could gleen the meanings of the Spanish as they are very close to the English in this case. Thankfully they are not like the German Notgeld with different dialects and colloquialisms which make translating uber difficult. While, like you, I have not looked into Mexican Banknotes much and have only a few of them. These particular notes were an impulse buy and not at all expensive. I was really wondering about the term "Pasteboard" in the descriptions of both the seller and in Pick (I got it right that time!). I had not come across that term before and I think that is what really made the sell. Now I know that pasteboard is merely a form of cardboard and I feel nice and smart; I just need an occasion to use my newfound terminology and someone who is easily impressed by synonyms for paper products! Anyhow, I was really surprised to find the size so small and the quality beter than expected. I figured they'd be bigger and more delicate than they actually are.

Well, I know only a little bit about them. The pink one was issued by the Distrito Fereral Gobierno Constitucionalista de Mexico, Republica. The other three were issued by Gobierno Provisional de Mexixo, Republica. All notes are handstamped which, according to Krause, designates the local authority. These were intended to indicate that they were to be accepted in local areas. Unfortunately I am not familiar with the different designations that were used. I believe them to be very common as they are the ones pictured in Krause.

I took a chance with an impulse buy of Mexican Revolutionary banknotes of 5 and 10 centavos denominations. They are made of a substance called 'Pasteboard' which is defined as a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together - really just cardboard. I was surprised at first that the notes were so small, but it makes sense, as they are Centavos, not Pesos. The images as scanned look like these: 1. 5 Centavos 1915 2. 5 Centavos 1914 3. 10 Centavos 1915 4. 10 Centavos 1915 A size comparison image is here: http://i12.tinypic.com/4bh6445.jpg[/img]]5. Size Comparison://http://i12.tinypic.com/4bh6445.jpg[...Size Comparison

Here, here! Congrat's, Brett! Good show.

Does it look like this? Link to Ron Wise Site

Hi all! I just got back from a lovely trip to Mexico. While there, I tried to get som e Mexican banknotes. I did not have a lot of time to search for many places, as I was hiking through forests and crossing waist high rivers in the Sierra Madre Mountains, hiking up to the worlds 2nd highest (and I believe the steepest!) lighthouse, and taking tours through cities. While I found it very easy to get banknotes, I found it impossible to get banknotes that were less than, well... filthy. I tried getting them from vendors, but they were the worst. I tried from a couple Money Exchanges, but they all turned out to be ladies who had to dig through their purses and through bags of crumpled banknotes to get me stuff that I promptly refused. I finally went to a bank in Mazatlan. I figured that they would be the best place to get what I needed. If this was true, I am sorry to say that they were not very good. They weren't as crumpled or as dirty as the others I saw, but they weren't that great either. I would up with only two denominations as the others looked so bad. Here they are - Keep in mind, these are the best I could get in three cities! 20 Pesos http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view.aspx?id=902588 and the 50 pesos http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view.aspx?id=902589 Even though I will have to obtain better pieces, I am glad that I had the experience of trying to get them in Mexico. One person I talked to said that they were going to be getting new notes fairly soon and that is likely why they are hard to obtain as the banks are confiscating some of the notes. This explained why they wanted to give me a lot of coins as well as banknotes. As I was looking through some coins in my hand on the street, I was approached by beggars asking for money. It's best not to show even a few pesos in your hand in the cities. But there was some good news. When I returned home, I found this note from Tunisia waiting for me. Not too rare, but rarely seen - 1 Dinar from 1965. http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view.aspx?id=902590 - Dave

I just got back from visiting family in Nevada. While there, my parents gave me a 1986 Un Sucre coin from Ecuador that my father got in change. He first thought it to be a canadian quarter, but my mother's better eyesight caught it and saved it from being passed on once again.

Congrats! That's a nice accomplishment, and a wonderful new note!

Finally got one of these! I refused to pay too much, everyone seems to want $$$ for them, so I had to wait until the right moment. I actually got two of them for the price so I did extra good on it. Heh-heh... I like it when I get a good deal!

Just got in two pair of Japanese Hansatsu notes. One is from 1730, but I don't know the other's date.

Okay, so My wife actually saved this from circulating any further for me, so I guess it wasn't actually a purchase, but it is the first 2004 US$10 I have ever seen, and I'm keepin' it! Still have to try to get one in UNC, though - It's harder than I thought!

Got these in the mail today: 1929 French West Afrika 5 Franks (Dakar) 1997 Comoros 5000 Francs

Received two Morgans today - smooth and easy transaction! Thanks!

Ha ha! Too late! Banknotes are and always will be my main concern. Don't worry though... I think that there 'just might' be enough Czech notes out there for both of us. I don't think that you can hog 'em all! Though I'd like to see someone try -

Actually I have very few Thought I might test the waters on them to see if I like 'em. So far so good. I might actually try getting some better Czech coins in the future. It's so hard for me to try and pick an area to concentrate on though. My paper money collection is a mish mash of things - I mainly get what is attractive to me, and don't worry too much about the sets. I really like the artwork, and I also enjoy finding the hidden images in UV, microprint, and those hidden within the guilloche and underprint. As for coins, though, I would like to concentrate more on an area or set or timeframe - right now I have the beginings of the same type of coin collection as I have in paper -and it's not doing much for me.

Those are nice, and relatively scarce too I believe, aren't they?. At least I haven't come across them other than in the catalogues - Nice to see them in other than grainy black & white. As for me, I got some minor things today to round out some collections. Gambia 5 Dalasis - 1991 Bolivia 1 Boliviano - 1928 Nagorno-Karabakh 2 & 10 Drams - 2004 Czechoslovakia 10 Haleru coin - 1925

Wow! Those are some really beautiful coins. Mine isn't as pretty, but I love it more than any other item in my collection (which is mainly banknotes). This Morgan was given to me by my grandfather. Many years ago - in fact a long-long time ago, he decided to save two silver dollars from the year that he was born (1889) and give them to his two youngest grandsons just before he was to die. I was the second youngest grandson. I can't remember how many grandsons there were, but I know my mom was the youngest of 14 kids, so there were a lot of grandkids, and getting this back in 1981 was one of the most special (and sad) times of my life. Now when I hold it in my hands, I have a very strong link to my grandpa and the past.

1996 Portugal 1000 Escudos P188 came in the mail today. I really like this series of notes.