Category: Paper Money
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Great resource for grading paper money
If you’re like me and and don’t know squat about grading paper currency, this page is for you!! http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/grading.html I use it all the time to help me get a better ballpark… It’s like Grading Coins by Photograph – my favorite book! – only with paper money (and it’s free). It’s particularly helpful for lower…
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Prop Money Is Flooding Our Town!
Good morning! It’s been a couple of years since our last post here, but I couldn’t help myself to log back in and share this current trend going down in our community… Fake $100 bills are showing up at locations and no one knows where they’re coming from! I first saw a copy at our…
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Still Alive and Collecting! You?
It’s been about 5 months since our last posting here (sorry!), but to my collection’s delight I’m still very much collecting and immersing myself into this wide wonderful world of coins and currency :) In fact, just the other month I started two new focuses that’s since reignited my collecting passion! I don’t know about…
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“To Counterfeit is DEATH.”
How’s that for discouraging counterfeiting :) I saw this line at the top of an old colonial note a friend had shown me, and the more I looked at it the more I thought it would be cool to own in my collection. So we made a trade! In fact, I ended up with two…
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Interesting Eagle and Star Stamps on This $100 Bill
I received the above bill in a Craigslist transaction over the weekend (I’m on a mission to list one thing a week there to help declutter and make some side $$$!), and when I turned it around I found two pretty interesting designs stamped on it. Stamp #1: Eagle’s head! Stamp #2: Blue Star with…
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My New 1806 “Draped Bust” Half Cent
(Coins were so risqué back in the day, eh? ;)) This is the latest jewel in my collection, and one I’ve been trying to get off a buddy of mine for a while. I’m not sure if I just caught him in a good mood, or my offer this time around was better (or, perhaps, he…
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Two Cent Peculiarities
I don’t know why, but I’m obsessed with the odd denominated coins of our past. Particularly two cent and three cent pieces. They’re just so cool and, well, odd looking that whenever I see someone looking to part with ’em I usually can’t help but to start bartering :) And last night was no different.…
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Susan B. Awesome
Picked up a few interesting pieces this weekend while out yard saling! One of which threw me for a loop – that beautiful Susan. B. Anthony dollar pictured above. As I do at all yard sales, especially ‘estate sales’, one of the first places I check out are the jewelry boxes. Mainly because the most…
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I’ll Grant You That, Lincoln.
Oh man, just came across a couple of old bills I picked up the other month while cleaning up my desk. A $50 bill from 1928, and a $5 bill from 1934. You don’t see those every day! Nor such clever blog titles, right? ;) ‘Cuz Grant and Lincoln are featured on these bills? Sigh……
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Are You Down With MPC?
AKA Military Payment Certificates? ;) I picked up these bad boys in a recent trade with my friend (the same one who got my $5.00 star notes and also gave me that sexy 2 cent piece), and I really had no idea of its history until I sat down to write this post. They’re kinda…
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