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Saor Alba

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  1. At the opening of the 20th century there were ten note issuing banks - Aberdeen Town and County and Caledonian were swallowed up by North of Scotland and Bank of Scotland early in the century which left eight. The next round of mergers began in the 1950s and on up through 1969 with the merger of British Linen into Bank of Scotland - which now leaves only three note issuing banks. British Linen continued as a savings bank up into the 1990s but has since been renamed. The banks always had their unique designs and continue to do so, but they do coordinate colour schemes with all of the other UK banks in Northern Ireland and England as well as Isle of Man and Guernsey and Jersey to afford some colour recognition.
  2. Oldest from Belgium, and a real stinker to find in nice collectable grade:
  3. I got an email the other day that some bill I entered a couple of years ago was just entered in Wisconsin. I only enter ones that people have stamped.
  4. Must have been Italy day at the coin machine: 50 Lire 1976 2 Euro 2002 - I never mind finding $2.50 worth of one coin in the reject slot.
  5. Very nicely done, like those large sized images
  6. Canada 5 c 1968 Canada 5 c 1976 Canada 10c 1997 Canada 25c 2005 Canada 25c 2006 Vancouver Olympics Ecuador 25 centavos 2000 - a sort of neat find since Ecuador uses the dollar coin and bills, but change coins are local.
  7. I think I will wait until I can buy it for melt value.
  8. 1998-S cent, someone must have busted up and spent a proof set. A sort of curious find for a reject bin though.
  9. Lots of acquisitions the past few months, some are imaged, some are not yet and none are loaded to website. Too busy searching coins.
  10. I know that all too well. Actually the Owl was my first significant ancient purchase - it is one of those awesome ancients that is so emblematic of a whole era of human history.
  11. You're really sliding down a slippery slope of chequebook destruction! Ancients will send you to the poorhouse if you are not careful.
  12. Bahamas 25 cents 2000 Latvia 1 Lats 2007 - not a bad find for a nickel sized coin that is worth $1.89 at current exchange rates.
  13. Caymans 10c 1996 Germany 2pf 1969-D Netherlands 25 cent 1979 Netherlands 25 cent 1992
  14. Lots of minor finds, foreign stuff like Indian rupees, Bahamian coins etc but nothing too exciting.
  15. The obverse is nice, the reverse is bleh. It would be nice if they actually stated on the piece what they are commemorating, I can only conjecture that it is the War of 1812.
  16. A side theme of post-Civil War "evasion" notes - technically these issues were prohibited under the National Banking Act of 1863, but states and municipalities skirted the law until the 1896 Mississippi "warrants" - then the Secret Service finally put an end to all non-federal government bonded note issues ie anything other than Federally issued or National Bank issued paper money.
  17. This one I bought about a year ago, just never posted: A very very rare post Civil War obsolete from the North, and from a National Bank in Meriden Connecticut, which at the same time was issuing National Banknotes in the $1 denomination. This note issue was likely in contravention of the prohibition of note issues without paying the 10% tax that eliminated all non-National bank note issues.
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