tangerinegreen555

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More colorful banknotes

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I still have some Zambian copper landrace seeds somewhere.
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1977 Uganda 5 with Idi Amin on the front. Ruthless 250 lb. dictator used to challenge neighboring leaders to boxing matches to settle disputes. He was thrown out of the country in 1979, died in exile.
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Maldivian 100, a lot of little islands over there.
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Aruba 10-25-50-100, what you'd expect from an island in paradise.
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Ho Chi Minh on the front of 500,000 dong note. Is that a lot of dong or what?
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1979 Colombian 1000 peso. Coke residue at no extra charge.
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Fiji $5. But is it enough for a bottle of Fiji water???
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Egyptian abouta pound note. Comes with Sphinx guy on the front.
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I thought this said Seed Bank Islands at 1st glance.
 

tangerinegreen555

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Tasteful artistic nudity on currency gives it class.
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Those are some big Czechoslovakian tits right out there. You'd think the dead guy in the picture would be smiling a little.

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They aren't shy in Bora Bora either.

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The naked girl rides the shark on the reverse of every denomination on the Cook Islands currency. Check out the guy on the front of the 3. How's it hangin' dude?
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But those poor fuckers on the front of the 10, they all got chopped off. WTF?

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Finland puts the whole nude family on there. I believe that's a pic of the great Finnish migration to West Virginia.

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I guess she slipped into a dress to carry that guys groceries. I like the front pic better.

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Nobody wanted to see her tits. Sorry.

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Guy with his mouth hanging open acting like he never saw tits before. WTF buddy, close that mouth.
 

tangerinegreen555

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If you worked in a coal mine in the 19th to early 20th century, you got paid in company scrip that was only good at the company store. Total company control of your entire existence.

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store…"

Tennesee Ernie Ford

Scrip note from 1862, the middle of the Civil War.
Very historic if not numismatically valuable, I wouldn't part with it. I sent a photo copy of it to the guy who literally wrote the book about coal company scrip in 1990. He offered $34. No sale.
Maybe for $1000.
 

curious2garden

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If you worked in a coal mine in the 19th to early 20th century, you got paid in company script that was only good at the company store. Total company control of your entire existence.

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store…"

Tennesee Ernie Ford

Scrip note from 1862, the middle of the Civil War.
Very historic if not numismatically valuable, I wouldn't part with it. I sent a photo copy of it to the guy who literally wrote the book about coal company scrip in 1990. He offered $34. No sale.
Maybe for $1000.
My dad worked the anthracite mines close to Shamokin, PA. I wonder if he was paid in company script. Interesting info, thanks.
 

tangerinegreen555

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My dad worked the anthracite mines close to Shamokin, PA. I wonder if he was paid in company script. Interesting info, thanks.
My maternal grandfather worked in the mines. Then, he took over the company store.

He barely made a living until he left that area and started a real store that actually took in money. He was able to buy a used Model T Ford a couple years later.
 

lokie

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A $20 bill printed on paper that mysteriously had an ordinary fruit sticker on it sold Friday for $25,300, an auction company official said.
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The famed "Del Monte Note," a $20 bill with a Del Monte sticker on it that sold on eBay for $10,100, sold for $25,300 at the Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers in Dallas on Friday.

The flawed note bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson's portrait.


The buyer at the auction in Orlando, Fla., did not want to be identified, said Dustin Johnston, director of auctions for Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers of Dallas.

The 1996 bill originated at a U.S. Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, but how the fruit tag found its way onto the paper of the greenback is unknown.

"I've collected for probably seven years now and nothing comes close to the way people react to it — their eyes pop out," said Daniel Wishnatsky, a Phoenix currency collector who bought the bill online in 2003 for $10,100.

Jason Bradford, president of PCGS Currency in Newport Beach, Calif., authenticated that the error was genuine and not faked outside the printing plant.

Currency goes through three printing stages, Bradford said: first the back is printed, then the face, and then the bill receives serial number and treasury seal stamps.
In the case of the Del Monte note, the seal and serial number are both printed on top of the sticker, meaning the fruit tag must have found its way onto the bill midway through the process, he said.
The note, in nearly perfect condition, has achieved celebrity status among currency collectors, appearing on the covers of the Bank Note Reporter and Numismatic News.
 

tangerinegreen555

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A $20 bill printed on paper that mysteriously had an ordinary fruit sticker on it sold Friday for $25,300, an auction company official said.
Money Pile animated emoticon


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The famed "Del Monte Note," a $20 bill with a Del Monte sticker on it that sold on eBay for $10,100, sold for $25,300 at the Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers in Dallas on Friday.

The flawed note bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson's portrait.


The buyer at the auction in Orlando, Fla., did not want to be identified, said Dustin Johnston, director of auctions for Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers of Dallas.

The 1996 bill originated at a U.S. Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, but how the fruit tag found its way onto the paper of the greenback is unknown.

"I've collected for probably seven years now and nothing comes close to the way people react to it — their eyes pop out," said Daniel Wishnatsky, a Phoenix currency collector who bought the bill online in 2003 for $10,100.

Jason Bradford, president of PCGS Currency in Newport Beach, Calif., authenticated that the error was genuine and not faked outside the printing plant.

Currency goes through three printing stages, Bradford said: first the back is printed, then the face, and then the bill receives serial number and treasury seal stamps.
In the case of the Del Monte note, the seal and serial number are both printed on top of the sticker, meaning the fruit tag must have found its way onto the bill midway through the process, he said.
The note, in nearly perfect condition, has achieved celebrity status among currency collectors, appearing on the covers of the Bank Note Reporter and Numismatic News.
That is so cool.

No more eating on the assembly line I'll bet. Lol.
 
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