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Old October 17th 04, 07:58 PM
Padraic Brown
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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 05:30:53 GMT, "John Patrick"
wrote:

OK, quick poll:

1) Do you collect:
a) Federal Reserve Notes?
b) Silver Certificates?
c) United States Notes?
d) Gold Certificates?
e) Federal Reserve Bank Notes?
f) Star notes?
g) Web press notes?
h) Older notes?


None - I don't specialise in collecting US currency. I do however have
an array of US items, including large and small size USnotes, SSs,
FRNs, CSA, fractional notes, US-Philippines, tax stamps, tobacco /
candy / mutual profit coupons, and Colonial.

I also own "The Worst Pair of Deuces in the Lower 48", a wrinkly 1862
with ripped corners and a layer of grunge all over it and a 1976 that
appear to have been mangled in machinery and then dropped down the
privy a few times. Appears also to have been gnawed on by mice.

2) Picking one of the above, which is your "main collection"?


N/A - I'd say my "main" collection is Tibetan notes. Also like notes
from around the English imperium and Commonwealth.

3) What is your lowest serial number? (Circulation and "special")


A #4949 $3 note from Georgia (1777). Neatest serial no. turns out to
be a radar SN: 84648, an 1862 $1 US note.

4) What is your highest serial number? (Circulation and "special")


#97660394, an 1899 $1 SS

5) What is your best circulation find?


A run of 8 $1 SS star notes; and 15 $2 US notes. Both from trips to
the bank. Also from the bank, two $5 SSs and two $5 US notes, and from
change in a shop, one $5 SS with a penciled notation "Do Not Spend".


6) Do you have a favorite foreign note? If so, what is it?


I'm quite fond of the old white BoE notes (have a 1935 Peppiatt £5, a
£100 stage money example and was drooling over the (real) £100 note
recently advertised here). Anything Tibetan is a favourite. I'm quite
fond of the fr1000 assignat, the 800000000 yuan Hell banknote and the
60 baht square commemorative note. Anything Imperial Chinese is also
cool, and I'd like to finnagle one of the Ming dynasty 1 kuan notes
some day. Have a number of late imperial era notes issued by various
banks and regions, though.

'been wanting to ask most of these questions for a while'


Thank you for asking!

Padraic.

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ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.
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