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(http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/canada/canada25c1870dtl.jpg)
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One of the fascinating aspects of Canada's monetary history was that for a long time in the 19th century it's money was a mixture of British, American and Canadian coinages. American coinage circulated in Canada at par with the Canadian dollar, and was an important element in the money of Canada. So much so that as a result of the American Civil War, when in the USA coinage disappeared, similarly it did in Canada also. The USA alleviated the shortage of coinage with the Fractional Currency issues of 1863-1875. In Canada the Dominion did not take steps to address the shortage of coinage until 1870 when this lovely 25 Cent note was printed. Much more so in Canada than in the USA, these notes were popular small change notes and saw long and hard use and would continue to be used until the 1930's when after sixty some years of issuing the denomination it was discontinued. This note was printed by British American Banknote Company in Ottawa.
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(http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/canada/canada25c1900.jpg)
The small change notes continued into later years with a new design printed by American Banknote Company in Ottawa, this lovely note has a familiar vignette of "Britannia" with her ubiquitous trident.
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Banco Internacional de Costa Rica was formed in 1917, and represented a consolidation of four earlier private banks that issued banknotes in Costa Rica. Early on the bank contracted with American Banknote Company to produce a colourul and attractive series of banknotes. This two colones note was first issued beginning in 1918 and this bank continued to issued paper money through 1936 when the note issuing privilege was revoked and transferred to Banco Nacional de Costa Rica. The vignette with the two feminine figures is representing science and industry, and this same vignette was also used on some Canadian and Mexican banknotes during this period. I really enjoy the depiction of the model aircraft - symbolising industry.
Another fascinating feature of the note is the redemption clause on the note, signifying that the note is redeemable in gold coin of the United States of America at a rate of four colones per dollar, or in lettres of credit at their office in New York City.
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Here is the larger denomination from this series printed by Bradbury Wilkinson and Sons. This note has the face and reverse underprinted with a lithographic process for the multicoloured imagery. Then the final print was the intaglio printing on the face of the note. This note has a centre vignette representing Christopher Columbus.
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David,
Those are very nice notes that you have got there.
Did you see the photos of my trading bank notes from Ireland,& the photo of my Canadian chartered bank note from Quebec?
Please let me know what you think.
Aidan.
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(http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/china/china1yuan1960dtl.jpg)
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One of the intriquing and fascinating aspects of paper money in the People's Republic of China is after the communist government secured it's position in all of China in 1949 women began appearing on paper money - perhaps in the interests of equality. On this 1 Yuan note released first in 1960 and used up until 1980 a young lady drives a tractor. A recent issue of the IBNS Journal had a story about the 1 Yuan note with the lady on the tractor, in this case at least, it was based on a photo of her on a tractor. Evidently the lady (Liang Jun) was China's first female tractor driver. She was trained in 1948 at a school sanctioned by the Communist Party and wound up working most of her life with agricultural machinery. She retired in 1990 and is now 80 years old.
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(http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/tunisia/tunisia102005.jpg)
This note was issued in 2006, though dated 2005, and is said to commemorate an archeaology conference that was held in Tunis. The subject of the front of the note is Elissa or "Dido", the legendary founder of the Carthaginian Empire in the 9th century BC. She is also a subject of the Aeneid by Virgil. As she is a figure in early written history, accounts of her vary and are mostly conjecture. The depiction of a feminine figure on a banknote from the Arabic world is very uncommon, so this note is unusual, and also a very fascinating tie in with semi mythological figures in history.
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Ukraine in the era of 1917-1922 was a confused state that was battled over by Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and German forces. In essence there were really three competing forces at work in Ukraine during that time, the Social Democrats(Directorate), the Hetmanate under Pavlo Skoropadsky, and the Communists. The communists controlled the east of the country and south, and issued notes in ruble denominations. The Hetmanate issued currency in Hryvnia denominations whilst the Directorate of the Social Democrats controlled mostly the western part of the country and issued this currency in Karbovnets denomination. The Hetmanate and the Directorate controlled areas of Ukraine united in early 1919, but still had to oppose Polish, Communists, and White Russian forces. This particular piece of paper money was issued by the State Treasury of the Unified Ukrainian state - so called Ukrainian National Republic in 1918 and saw a short period of usage. This note was printed locally in Kyiv by a Ukrainian printer.
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David,
You can see all my banknotes from Ulster,along with my $5 note from Quebec on here; http://www.uscoininfo.com/gallery/ (http://www.uscoininfo.com/gallery/) .
Please let me know what you think.
Aidan.
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Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, so Mexico, and so appropriate for this brand new $500 note issued in September 2010 by Banco de Mexico. Artists, writers, leftist political agitators extraordinaire - and tempestuous lovers whose radical ideas shocked conservative Mexican society in the early 20th century. This note commemorates their lives, and their art, with a self portrait of Frida Kahlo on the reverse of the note with a vignette from another of her works.
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Nice :Beatingheart;
Some of these girls would make a great CoinsAreFun token in the design contest
http://www.coinsarefun.com/forum/index.php?topic=644.0 (http://www.coinsarefun.com/forum/index.php?topic=644.0)
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Truly impressive! Thanks.
All I have to offer is these two from stock certificates, more modern than the Roman types of earlier paper.
The first in the "Semeuse" pose crossing water is from The Canadian Banknote Company on a share certificate of Basic Resource, International, of the Bahamas, circa 1986.
The Space Girl with Cape is an American Banknote Company creation for Watkins-Johnson Company, circa 1970.
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What kinds of problems do you have scanning paper? This has been discussed before. Modern scanners -- multifunction printers -- have hardware that detects money and stampstamps your action.
I have had problems with a Depression Scrip from Detroit. Just now, scanning stock certificates from Canadian Bank Note, American Bank Note, and Johnson Bank Note, I got split images, pixelation and striations. None of five images came out as nice as the others. This is an inconsistent situation, but known.
Any reflections?
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Mike, I have no problems with scanners. My scanners are old(6-7 years), I have an HP that I use as my primary scanner and a Canon that is held in ready reserve status for when and if the HP gives up the ghost. I have had to find 64 bit patches for the scanning software, which actually can be a bit of a pain.
So, running old scanners, no embedded anti-currency imaging software. Only banknotes I have trouble scanning curiously enough are 1930's era Joh Enschede en Zonen printed Netherlands banknotes, which because of the tight geometric patterns with very divergent colours cause moire patterns to form on the images.
Those are amazing vignettes on the stock certificates - it is a shame the stopped portraying lovely women on circulating currency early in the century, and on MPC's by the Series 692 issues.
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Those are amazing vignettes on the stock certificates - it is a shame the stopped portraying lovely women on circulating currency early in the century, and on MPC's by the Series 692 issues.
Well, I was trying to scan and upload male images, actually: Mercuries, Vulcans, and the like, and a nice portrait from the NYC of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Uris Building has three guys on a girder. Baker Machinery has a roughneck. Just being fair to all of the readers...
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Howard Johnson Company. Security-Columbian Banknote Company, circa 1970.
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The company was organized under Maryland law in 1959 as a closed-end management investment~company.According to the prospectus, it seeks to provide a means by which American investors may participate in the economic growth believed to be present in the Europpan Common Market countries (France, the Federal Republic of Germany. Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemberg) and in countries and overseas territories havingapecial relations with such countries, by investing principally in securities of companies having substantial operations in these countries and related areas. The investment advisors of the company are listed as Euro-fund Beratungs A.G, (Eurofund Advisory Corporation). a Swiss corporation, and Eurofund American Advisory Company. Inc,. a New York Corporation.
The company has outstanding 1.102.500 shares of common stock, of which management officials as a groupown 20.102 shares and Glore, Forgan & Co. holds of record [garbled] shares (of which 27,854 shares are owned beneficially). S, Sloan Colt is listed as board chairman and Hunter S, Marston, Jr, as president...
SEC News Digest May 19, 1961.
http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1961/dig051961.pdf (http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1961/dig051961.pdf)
Turn your search engine on Hunter S. Marston later. For now, the runway...
Top: Security-Columbian Banknote Company, circa 1963 for less than 100 shares.
Middle: DeLaRue Banknote Company, circa 1967 for less than 100 shares.
Bottom: Amercan Banknote Company, circa 1970 for 100 Shares (similar to the "Semeuse" of Basic Resources International of the Bahamas from the Canadian Banknote Company (above.))
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The Howard Johnson one is very :signcool;
I like it!
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There was a HoJo restaurant and hotel about 5 miles from where I live that continued in business until about 7-8 years ago, it was definitely one of the last if not the last ones around.
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I mis HoJo. When I used to live in Cleveland we used to stop off the the Turnpike and gwt
a hamburger on our way to the cabin in Pa. Nice crisp fall days and looking foward to going and when we got to the cabin we (I)
q=would make such a huge fire everyone would have to open the windows and doors :D
Gosh I miss home and HoJo's :(
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Check out this note;
Ulster 1940 1 Pound.
Please let me know what you think.
Aidan.
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Guatemala is a country in Central America, located betwixt Mexico and Nicaragua. Like many contemporary Latin American countries, commercial banks issued banknotes into the early part of the 20th century - the effect of which was very lovely designs created by Waterlow and Sons and American Banknote Company. Competition for banknote orders was fierce betwixt the two companies, but Guatemalan banks tended to go with Waterlow and Sons Printers for their note orders. One aspect of many Waterlow printed notes was that they used original vignettes created for the customer more often than ABNCo did.
Guatemala had pegged their currency, the Peso, to the French franc at a rate of 1 Peso : 5 Francs, but this peg was abandoned and the currency allowed to float - resulting in an inflationary period that extended for about a quarter of a century. In 1925 the Guatemalan central bank stepped in, and recalled all the peso denominated notes and exchanged 60 Pesos for a new "Quetzal" denominated currency that remains their currency unit to this day.
This note was issued by a commercial bank, El Banco de Occidente, Quetzaltenango, in the city of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala's second largest city in south central Guatemala. The design of this note dates into the late 19th century for this bank, and was used up until the currency recall in 1925.
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Finally I found a nice enough one, after like a four year search...
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These were used in Austria-Hungary until 1903 when they were demonetised and replaced with Krone denominated currency - the coins of which had been in circulation since 1892 and were two to the older "Gulden" - so this note circulated as a 10 Kroner note after 1892.
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Finally I found a nice enough one, after like a four year search...
(http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/austriahungary/austria5gulden1881.jpg)
These were used in Austria-Hungary until 1903 when they were demonetised and replaced with Krone denominated currency - the coins of which had been in circulation since 1892 and were two to the older "Gulden" - so this note circulated as a 10 Kroner note after 1892.
Beautiful :Beatingheart; :Beatingheart; :Beatingheart;
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Check out this one;
Jersey N.D. (2010) 1 Pound.
It is inscribed in both French & Jersey Norman French on the back.
Please let me know what you think.
Aidan.
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The vignette of the young lady on this 1926 series of banknotes issued by Caixa de Estabilizacao "Stabilisation Bank" is titled "Reverie" and her image appeared as the central portrait on all of the notes from this series. The Brazilian Reis currency had been in circulation as a unit since 1790, during the era of Portuguese rule. Brazil would subsequently become an empire independent of Portugal and thence a republic in 1889, after which the currency sharply devalued. By the time this note was issued it was worth approximately 80 US cents, and was backed by redemption in gold. Of course as with all paper money - eventually it lost value, with the adoption of the Cruzeiro currency in 1942 and the final demonetisation of the Reis currency in 1955. Since that time Brazil has gone through numerous currency re-valuations where previous currencies quickly lose all value and are called in and replaced.
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The currency reform in Germany was brought on by inflation of the old Reichsmark and the need to provide Germany with a stable currency. By 1948 relations betwixt the western powers and the Soviet Union had broken down to the point at which the Soviets were not even included in the planning for the introduction of the new Deutschmark denominated currency beginning in 1948. Curiously the new currency order was initiated on Sunday 20 June by Ludwig Erhard, Director of Economics in the Western Zones of Germany - he chose this day as he was sure the Western Powers(USA, Britain and France) could not countermand his order. Despite his heavy handed step towards German financial independence he succeeded.
The sheer volume of currency being exchanged for the old Reichsmarks necessitated currency coming in from multiple sources, German printers, Banque de France and from America the American Banknote Company and Tudor Press. This 20DM note was printed by American Banknote Company but does not bear their imprint. The vignette is proprietary to this note and is symbolic of industry - with the ubiquitous beehive and the factory in the background. These 1948 dated notes symbolised the nascent rebirth of the German economy - the bold decision by Ludwig Erhard initiated the phenomenal growth in the German economy that would result in Germany rejoining Europe as an economic powerhouse.
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Beautiful :Beatingheart;
I REALLY wish our coinage was HALF as nice
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Check out these 2 Canadian 25 Cents 'Shinplasters' dated 1900 & 1923.
The 1923 one is one that seldomly turns up at all these days.
Please let me know what you think.
Aidan.