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The Mystery of Hagerstown National Bank
This month’s article combines some common-sense questions about National Bank Notes and a bit of financial sleuthing to present a very interesting piece of national banking history. A few years ago, when I was actively collecting national bank notes
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Jun 1 AL, Huntsville. Stamp, Postcard & Coin Show. Jaycee Community Building John Hunt Park, 2180 Airport Road. SH: Sat. 10-5. A: Free. Mike O`Reilly. or PH: 256-527-4601 or mcoreilly@yahoo.com. Apr 14 AZ, Phoenix. Camelback Collectibles Coin Show. E
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New Book On American Paper Money
America’s Paper Money: A Canvas for an Emerging Nation by William L. Pressly is the first in-depth study of the imagery on the country’s paper currency before 1900. Because paper money circulated everywhere, it was the country’s most widely distribut
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1935 Bank of Canada English Text $500 Boosts World Paper Money Auction to Nearly $2 Million
An exceptionally rare Bank of Canada $500 1935 BC-17 English Text PCGS Banknote About UNC 53 PPQ sold for $228,000 to lead Heritage’s World Paper Money Signature® Auction to $1,975,746 March 7-8. When the Bank of Canada opened in March 1935, its firs
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New Vault Provides No Cost Insured Secured Storage
For nearly a century, Stack’s Bowers Galleries has been committed to assisting clients through all facets of their collecting journey regardless of collecting specialty or whether buying or selling. A concern at the forefront for many experienced col
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A Trove of U.S. Currency Rarities to be Offered in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries Spring 2024 Showcase Auction
Stack’s Bowers Galleries presented its Spring 2024 Showcase Auction of U.S. Currency. Two sessions will be hosted at Griffin Studios in the firm’s Costa Mesa, Calif. headquarters, one on Wednesday, March 27, and one on Thursday, March 28. Both sessio
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Proof Of The Month
Creede, Colo. is a scenic old mining town with a current population of under 300. The town is situated along Willow Creek on flat ground that opens to the south of a deep cliffed gulch through which the creek flows. The town is billed as the last sil
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Spelling Error on Bank Note
It may have taken six years for it to become general public knowledge, but recent publicity surrounding a spelling mistake on an Australian bank note is drawing attention to the note both inside and outside Australia. Apparently, someone at Note Prin
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Reader’s Showcase
This is a follow-up to the March 2021 Notes from Washington reporting the discovery of a typo on a Series of 1929 $5 from Mt. Orab, Ohio. Notice that County is misspelled as “Gounty”. This mistake was made on a 6-subject stopgap electrotype plate mad
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Collecting $1 Silver Certificates
In 1928 the United States Treasury reduced the size of United States currency from its dimensions going back to the early 1860s. The new currency would measure 6.14 inches in length and 2.61 inches in width. Notes would be .0043 inches thick, a stack
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New Technology to Give Boost
APRIL 2024 U.S. Paper Money Price Guide In the January 30 Letters to the Editor in Numismatic News, a reader wrote that the reader has concluded stamp collecting is a dying hobby. Stamps are seldom used on letters anymore. For that reason, our attent
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Portraits and Politics
Ever since the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, the question has been raised about if once her son Charles III’s portrait began to appear on coins and bank notes would currency with her portrait remain as legal tender? The answer is “yes,” howeve
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The First "First Lady" on U.S. Currency
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802) is a revered icon in American history. Our first First Lady was, of course, married to George Washington, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and the first President of the
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New High Serial for the $2 Series of 1928C Mules
Small Size U.S. variety collector Derek Higgins set another record with the $2 LT 1928C mule pictured here. This is now the highest reported serial number for this very scarce variety. His find is C03716665A G190/289, which extends the known range by
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Bank Notes Maintain Popularity
MARCH 2024 U.S. Paper Money Price Guide Our fiat money bank notes have not lost any of their popularity despite what cashless society advocates may claim. According to the most recent issue of the U.S. Treasury Department’s quarterly Treasury Bulleti
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Promoting Physical Cryptocurrency
The idea behind cyber currency is that there is no need to use physical cash. Considering that, it isn’t unreasonable to ask why a tangible form of cryptocurrency is now being offered in a physical bank note format. Cryptocurrency payments exist as d
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VP/GENERAL MANAGER, COLLECTIBLES Corinne Zielke SENIOR MARKET ANALYST Bill Brandimore EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Maggie Pahl EDITOR Sophia Mattimiro DESIGNER Ellie DeSautel ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVE April Krueger, akrueger@aimmedia.com, 715-318-0996 A
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Gateway to History Through Tippecanoe City, Ohio
Arthur Smith submitted this fabulous red seal as a candidate for this space and I couldn’t get on it fast enough. There are so many threads from it, we’ll just have to see where it takes us. Let’s top down starting with the note itself. With the selv
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Reader’s Showcase
Cody Regennitter, manager of the National Bank Note Collectors Facebook forum, won this curious Port Huron, Mich., note in an October 2022 Heritage sale. What caught his eye were the unusual 4s in the right charter number. All are decidedly wide and
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Gene Autry in Oklahoma
This month I have a really delightful story for you. A note-issuing national bank that started as a territorial and grew in a town that was bustling and vibrant, a town that then changed its name to honor a then-famous movie actor and singer, and sud
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Royalty On Canadian Currency
Canada is the second largest country on the planet. It stretches, like America, from sea to shining sea. It started out as a Province after the British won full control from the French and became a Confederation in 1867. Before that time several bank
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Triumphant Results at the 2024 NYINC Auction
As an official auctioneer of the New York International Numismatic Convention, Stack’s Bowers Galleries presented one of the year’s most exciting auction events, with $12,933,114 realized across the categories of ancient coins, world coins, and world
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Mar 10 AZ, Phoenix. Camelback Collectibles Coin Show. El Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, 552 N 40th St.. A: Free. Bill Jernigan. PH: 480-650-1255 or xaviercoins.bill@gmail.com. Mar 23 AZ, Prescott Valley. Yavapai County Coin Show. Elks Lodge #330, 6245 E.
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Bilingual Notes From the Citizen’s Bank of Louisiana
Students of U.S. history know that our country negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, acquiring 828,000 square miles of land for the bargain sum of $15 million (or 2.8 cents/acre). While the area extended well beyond the state of Loui
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Proof Of The Month
Reader Arthur Smith asked why the catalog listings for The Centreville National Bank of Thurman, Ohio, charter 2181, list Centreville as the town rather than Thurman. This turns out to be a tale of a bank title that just didn’t come out right thanks
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Commemorative Cause Confusion
During the United States’ bicentennial celebration citizens began hoarding the ill-timed 2-dollar Federal Reserve bank notes on which the signing of the Declaration of Independence appears on the reverse. Some people stashed them away thinking they w
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Nigerian Cashless Efforts Have Shortfalls
If you are contemplating what it might be like living in a cashless society in the future, you might want to look first to Nigeria as the poster child for reasons to continue to use physical cash instead. A recent Financial Institutions Training Cent
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