August 2022

Banknote Reporter

The most comprehensive monthly source of news and information on bank notes and all related fiscal paper

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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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Continuing West: St. Marys, Ohio
This month we will continue our visit to Ohio to see the home of perhaps the most impressively eye-appealing $5 Brown Back in my collection. So, from Woodsfield in the east (last month), we’ll head west towards the Indiana border to check out histori
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Newly Discovered $1 1861 Bank of Upper Canada Note
The $1 dollar Bank of Upper Canada note illustrated here bearing a plate date of Jan. 1, 1861, is a truly significant early piece of Canadian currency. The Province of Upper Canada was an irregularly shaped sprawling region in what is now eastern Can
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Reader’s Showcase
Mark Drengson, the prime mover behind the Society of Paper Money Collector’s Bank and Bankers Database website, acquired this number 1 Series of 1882 $5 East Grand Forks jewel from the April 2018 Heritage sale of the Bill Gale collection. Notes from
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$2 Bill Steeped in Superstition
Have you ever encountered a $2 bill with the corners torn off? I haven’t, but then again I rarely see any $2 bills. Not seeing $2 bills in circulation is not an uncommon experience, either now or throughout the denomination’s history. In 1962, when K
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Proof Of The Month
Greg Alexander brought this Series of 1875 $5 to my attention with Berkshire engraved in a very attractive font. The Berkshire Mountains and county of western Massachusetts are named for Berkshire County in England, site of Windsor Castle west of Lon
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First Native American Named U.S. Treasurer
June 21, WASHINGTON – Today, ahead of Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen’s visit to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, President Joe Biden announced the appointment of Lynn Malerba, Lifetime Chief of the Mohegan Tribe, to serve as
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Overlooked Notes Bring Bargains
The weekly Heritage auctions have been featuring a lot of Encased Postage examples lately. They are scarce and interesting numismatic pieces from the Civil War period. In August of 1862, John Gault received a patent for his encasement of postage stam
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Greek Rarities Highlight A. Karamitsos Sale
Hundreds of historic bank notes are featured in an upcoming sale presented by renowned Greece-based auction house A. Karamitsos. Online bidding for Auction 698 (Part A and Part B) is already underway, with the sale concluding September 11, 2022. Lead
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Four Chinese Bank Notes Each Realize Over $100,000
Four First Series Renminbi bank notes each realized prices over $100,000. They were among dozens of Chinese bank notes in a pair of Spink auctions held on June 25, 2022. The top lot was a China / People’s Republic 1951 10,000 Yuan graded PMG 40 Extre
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A Bolivian Overprint with a Historical Background
We’ve always known that Bolivia was a landlocked country with no access to seaports. That’s what we learned in school, and that’s why I was so surprised to find this particular overprint on a Bolivian note. In Spanish on the face and English on the b
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