On 16 Oct 2004 16:04:02 -0700, (Michael E.
Marotta) wrote:

"John Patrick" wrote
1) Do you collect:
a) Federal Reserve Notes? NO
b) Silver Certificates? NO
c) United States Notes? NO
d) Gold Certificates? NO
e) Federal Reserve Bank Notes? NO
f) Star notes? NO
g) Web press notes? NO
h) Older notes? Not sure what you mean.

2) Picking one of the above, which is your "main collection"?
I reject all of the above.
3) What is your lowest serial number? (Circulation and "special")
Irrelevant
4) What is your highest serial number? (Circulation and "special")
Irrelevant
5) What is your best circulation find?
Once built a set of A-L Federal Reserve $1 notes.

6) Do you have a favorite foreign note? If so, what is it?
France 50 Franc "Little Prince/Antoine de Saint-Exupery."

Not my favourite, but I always liked that one.

... allows us to determine who might be able to help ...

You parcel US paper into seven arbitrary catagories,

Not exactly "arbitrary". They're common categories that people collect
in. Certainly the categories could have been better devised.
Personally, I would have chosen a different scheme as well.

and then lump everything else into foreign.

Reread the title of the survey. It's about "US paper money", not
foreign. Most collectors who specialise in US often have a
miscellaneous collection as well, and he's well within rights to ask
about that.

I think that if you scan the history
here, you will see that if any one kind of paper money predominates,
it happens to be Scottish Bank Notes, odd though that may seem.

Only because there are two vociferous collectors of same and one much
less active collector of same (namely me, though I'll take anything
within the English imperium). Note once again the title of the survey
- it's not directed towards those who don't collect US paper money.

I just came from the library with an armload of books about mining in
Michigan's Upper Peninsula because I am working on an article about
the notes issued by the Central Mine of Eagle Harbor. They are not on
your radar screen, not being "foreign" and not being "Federal."

That indeed is a curious oversight, though it could be assumed under
"older notes". There are other oversights such as local currencies,
scrip, food stamps, travellers checks, etc., etc. that could be termed
"US paper money".

Padraic.

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