mmarotta Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Outstanding New Hampshire note! Truly a museum piece!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Thanks. Congratulations, are you going to post them on one page so we can see them all together? Yeah I will when I get a chance. Been just crazy busy this week. I'll have to fix the scan too. I must've had my laptop monitor at the wrong angle. the scan is darker than the note itself is. I should have all 13 posted here by the weeks end though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMMM Posted December 25, 2013 Report Share Posted December 25, 2013 Thanks. Yeah I will when I get a chance. Been just crazy busy this week. I'll have to fix the scan too. I must've had my laptop monitor at the wrong angle. the scan is darker than the note itself is. I should have all 13 posted here by the weeks end though. Good to hear. I look forward to it. In the mean time, from Costa Rica a very colourful note. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted December 26, 2013 Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 Nice New Hampster note Dave - amazing to think that the note had a nearly 12 year payout time period planned in 1776 - at least there in New Hampster they are honest about how long it will take to pay a debt. Holders of the 1780 Continentals were only finally paid by 1812, and then only 1% of the original debt after the bonds issued in the 1790s were paid up. Sometime I want to finish my colonies, I still have Vermont, New Hampshire, Georgia, N and S Carolina to go. Curiously enough I have a Maine item from 1758 that is probably much scarcer than Vermont even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 MMMM, that Costa Rica 50 is on my list! I also like your Congo 20000 too! Scottishmoney, Your set is a very nice one. That Maine issue is a rarity indeed. But adding Vermont would be awesome - any hopes for La Louisiane? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Well, here's my 13 Colony set. Gotta start shopping for a couple of continentals to make it a nice representational set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 MMMM, that Costa Rica 50 is on my list! I also like your Congo 20000 too! Scottishmoney, Your set is a very nice one. That Maine issue is a rarity indeed. But adding Vermont would be awesome - any hopes for La Louisiane? The La Louisiane notes are probably not as rare as the Vermont - they were issued during the South Sea Bubble time so there are probably more around than the Vermonts. What I find fascinating with colonials is since the run up to the Bicentennial in 1976 some hoards of some formerly quite scarce notes have flooded the market - notably the Carolinas. NC notes are so flipping common now, even into the 1750s. There have been some archival finds of Maryland and Delaware, the latter printed by the Ben himself, that have turned up in smaller numbers than the NC notes - but formerly prohibitive 1733 dated notes from Maryland from the London made plates have slipped into auctions in the past few years. My one Delaware 20/- from 1746 was printed by Benjamin Franklin in his print shop in Philadelphia - years before he brought in David Hall as an apprentice and later partner. I collect them primarily for the history, family links to the Revolution etc - not because they are particularly rare or pretty - they sure are not really lovely notes, no attractive females or nice designs certainly. But the whole leaf print thing started by Franklin adds to the allure of them - he figured out that leaf prints could not be duplicated - no leaf is the same as the other - so otherwise you would have to do a clumsy looking woodcut to duplicate a leaf pattern. On your notes you can clearly see that in the colonies on the borders of civilisation that the printing and ornamentation clearly were much more spartan in the Carolinas and Georgia than in the northern colonies. I nearly bid on a 1789 Charleston note recently, not sure why I didn't. Another aspect that is fun with the signatures is to research the signers and even the printers of the notes. Some would turn out to be Tories and later fled to Britain or Canada. Others such as Hugh Gaines somehow managed to slip through the dragnet of popular opinion of the time and remain in their business long afterwards - he printed the NYC corporation notes of 1790. I have a couple of Ben Franklin printed notes, some Hugh Gaines, and some famous signers - Laommi Baldwin(war hero and horticulturalist who discovered the Baldwin apple) and John Hart(signer of the Declaration of Independence). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 No pics, but at my credit union the lovely young teller had a series 1953 $5 SC awaiting my purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMMM Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Dave, those are magnificent. I am always amazed that notes survive such a long time. What a great set of notes, well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMMM Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Oh, yes, the new Congo 20,000. I did not post that one yet. It finish my Congo set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Just got these in the mail - 200 and 1000 Tenge notes from Kazakhstan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxuss Posted January 18, 2014 Report Share Posted January 18, 2014 Cambodia - 10 Kip Latvia - 25 Latu Austria - 1000 Kronen Japan - 1 Yen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Nice to see an early Baltic note! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazinta Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 That Japan note is beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazinta Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Just a few nots I got recently (and been too lazy to post) 20 Swiss Francs 2000 100 riels Cambodia 1972 100 Frwnch francs 10 Francs Berlioz 100 Francs Corneille 1 Piastre Indochina 500 Francs La Paix 1941 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazinta Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 5 Aussie dollars, 2011 (2012?) 20 dollars Canada, sadly not as nice as the plastic notes from our buddies down under Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Nice notes everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted January 30, 2014 Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 Agree with art! So much architecture! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazinta Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 5 Francs Pasteur, 1966 5 Francs assignat, 1793 That's 2 more in my French collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Nice notes. I really enjoy the French colorful notes like the 5 Francs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazinta Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Nice notes. I really enjoy the French colorful notes like the 5 Francs. Me too, that's why I like collecting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxuss Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Serbia 1000 Dinara Serbia 1000 Dinara Switzerland 10 Franks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Serbia 1000 Dinara Serbia 1000 Dinara Switzerland 10 Franks Terrific notes Bax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxuss Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Thanks, I like this old design on bankontes is something that got Your eye on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Wow, lot's of great notes lately. Congrats everyone! This note I'm adding here is one I've wanted for a while. It's been tough to find it in better than VF for some reason, but I'm pretty happy with this in XF. The folds are mostly very faint. It's a Switzerland 5 Franken note with William Tell at the left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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