Saor Alba Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 Super notes. How do you get the isolated images of some of the vignettes? I'd love to learn how to do that. I can cut & paste. But when I increase the size of the image it gets freaky looking. Art, I scan them at a high resolution, usually 600dpi for banknotes which gives you a very large image with great detail. Then with the note images I just reduce the size of the images to approx. 800 pixels wide for easy viewing. The vignettes I cut out at the scanned image size and do no reductions on them. You can reduce the image size with not much loss of detail, but the other way around only stretches the pixels and blurs the image. Curiously I have found a few banknotes, notably early Dutch banknotes are scanner resistant - and can only be imaged at even higher resolutions because of the patterns in the design: If you can this one at lower, ie the 150 or 300dpi, you will get a phenomenon called moiring , where you get moire patterns all over the note. Some bright Dutchmen in Joh Enschede en Zonen was way ahead of his time with these patterns on the note that made re-imaging so difficult - quite an accomplishment for a 1920's technology that was used up through the 1950's on Dutch notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 Thanks. I'll give it a try. That 10 Guilden is beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 Image from ANA Museum - Beebe Collection I'm going to do a writeup on this vignette for a presentation in April on another site. I don't have the note but it got me thinking about how I could capture this type of image for some of the notes that I do have. By the way the ANA Museum is open to members and non-members alike and the presentation of the Beebe collection is superb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 A couple of years ago I passed over 5 of the Bison notes in favour of some unique Nationals and LT notes from 1862-3. I wished I had taken the best of them which was VF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 A purchase awhile back, and one that took awhile to get because of being in UA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 A purchase awhile back, and one that took awhile to get because of being in UA. Nice purchase, is it uniface? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Yes, back then most banknotes were uniface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Yes, back then most banknotes were uniface. I'm curious of this notes origins. The note is in guldens...but the inscriptions are Austrian/German. I can make out some of the inscription but overall I can't really decipher why this note existed. Care to clear up my fog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siluska Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 I'm curious of this notes origins. The note is in guldens...but the inscriptions are Austrian/German. I can make out some of the inscription but overall I can't really decipher why this note existed. Care to clear up my fog? It is printed by the Austrian Empire in 1858. an older date- 1848- it is also known. They were printed as replacement for guldens, a 12 g. silver coins. In 1866 a new type was printed and these notes were replaced. Officially, the last pieces were redrawn in 1892. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 It is printed by the Austrian Empire in 1858. an older date- 1848- it is also known.They were printed as replacement for guldens, a 12 g. silver coins. In 1866 a new type was printed and these notes were replaced. Officially, the last pieces were redrawn in 1892. Thanks for that info Siluska. Do you know the reason that Austria needed a replacement note for the Gulden? Or was Gulden just a denomination name that did not pertain to a certain region and only a certain measurement of metal? I ask because I do not recall seeing any Austrian coins denoted in Guldens before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siluska Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Thanks for that info Siluska. Do you know the reason that Austria needed a replacement note for the Gulden? Or was Gulden just a denomination name that did not pertain to a certain region and only a certain measurement of metal? I ask because I do not recall seeing any Austrian coins denoted in Guldens before. Silver shortage. Officially, the bank exchanged this notes for silver currency. But if all the notes sere to be changed, it was imposible. only 40-60 % were covered. The state authorized the bank to print this notes as a waranty for of a loan given by the bank, to the state, in silver and gold. And the state accepted the notes at face value, same as the coins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Silver shortage. Officially, the bank exchanged this notes for silver currency. But if all the notes sere to be changed, it was imposible. only 40-60 % were covered.The state authorized the bank to print this notes as a waranty for of a loan given by the bank, to the state, in silver and gold. And the state accepted the notes at face value, same as the coins. Sounds very similar to the issues in the US with the all the obsolete banknotes from around the same time period. Only a certain percentage could ever really be redeemed for specie so the banks would go bankrupt if there was a run on the "loans". Thanks for the info agian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Which was why the USA instituted the National Bank programme in 1863, replacing state chartered banks with Nationally chartered banks. Of course we all know that even that drove good money completely away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Why is it Banks are ok playing the game of issuing fractional reserve currency, but if I get caught kiting checks I go to prison??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Why is it Banks are ok playing the game of issuing fractional reserve currency, but if I get caught kiting checks I go to prison??? Because you're not government sponsored Jeff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Nothing spectacular here, but ones I've wanted, but for some reason waited on for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Nice notes. I especially like the vignette on the 20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Here's another set that I've been needing to get to close some holes in sets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 At first, the fella on the obverse of the 500 franc looked like a dead body. Upon second glance, I realized I was wrong. Upon further glances, I still think he looks more like a dead body than a person... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 One of those notes that when I saw the amazing symbolism in it, combined with the feminine vignette, I knew I could not live without it. This note was issued in the postbellum southern city of Mobile Alabama. These notes were first issued as early as the summer of 1865, obviously by a reconstructionist government that was probably pro-Union in sentiment. But the vignette is very memorable for the symbolism of the "Union" with her flag greeting the South, with their swords cast to their feet - an obvious allusion to the just ended conflict that tore the nation apart. But as you will see with the rest of the note, old times are not forgotten: Notice the centre vignette with the now sharecroppers, apparently gathering sugar cane? I love the denomination of the note, the $3, the symbolism of the North and South embracing, but coupled with the other vignettes that are so descriptive of the postbellum Southern dilemmas. This note was one of those that of course skirted the legislation of 1863 that forbid the issuance of banknotes without the obligatory tax payment. Of course this was common in the south right after the cessation of hostilities, but notes after 1870 got pretty scarce. Edited to add in "sharecropper" vignette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 One of those notes that when I saw the amazing symbolism in it, combined with the feminine vignette, I knew I could not live without it. ... Why, I do believe that that there note has go to be one of my favorite obsolete banknotes I've ever seen. And I don't think I've ever seen an obsolete issued by a city before either. I like the was teh reverse states "City of Mobile" -simple, prominent and attractive. But that front with all the symbolism - Very much a 'gotta have it' note, and one to snap up. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 A very beautiful note! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Super note. I think the overall design is wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badin Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 my latest bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 10, 2010 Report Share Posted January 10, 2010 my latest bill Nice Note Badin! ANy chance you can show the reverse with the women too? ALso, is there a watermark in the blank square area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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