Worlds First Gold And Silver Bank Notes

Most dealers can smell money, they might have XRF the notes and found them not to be 23K, this is the most important fact you need to verify, a normal paper note is around 1 gram

I would not be at all surprised at $141.00 value per note in todays dollars.
As for XRF, that's not a possibility for me.
I live in the small town of Deming New Mexico which is 60 miles from any town that might even have one.
I have no car or any way to get there.
There is, I'm sure, no XRF here in this town
We are in the high desert country.
hfjacinto .. It may be true that I overpaid for them in 1999 but I've kept them, and in pristine condition, long enough that I may wind up having the last laugh after all.
So that is not an answer for me.
If someone in the community would be interested in purchasing one on the net and could do that, it would solve the problem.
With the low price that they are going for it might prove to be a profitable move.
Until that happens we will not know.
I think that the answer to the current low selling price on them is that no one really knows what they have because of all the confusion surrounding them.
I mean, after all, look at the trouble that we are having solving this riddle.

hfjacinto .. While I do appreciate the offer I am unwilling to let go of one of them and trust it to the possibility of damage in any way. Not that I have any reason to mistrust you, but things do get lost and damaged in the mail. I do a lot of buying on the internet and, over the course of the past few years, you would not believe how many of my packages have come through damaged by uncaring and incompetent people. Or totally disappearing altogether. Sorry but that's not going to happen. This is a full and complete set and the loss or damage of one can cost me too much. Someone is just going to have to buy one and test it themselves. Until then I'll keep them safe and sound right here like I have for the past 13 years. Thanks for the offer though.

@garbanzo, I understand and would think the same way. Thank you for posting these!

walk2dwater .. I'm thinking that as soon as someone actually finds out the value definitively that price will skyrocket. It may very well be a good buy right now.

OK folks, here is some information that I think that you all should have concerning The Worlds First Gold And Silver Banknotes.
I had the thought that these may have been very undervalued because of the rise in gold prices between 1999 when I bought them and today.
Well I was wrong.
With help from Helder, we had one of them tested and here are the results.
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Happy Friday. I ended up making it to the coin dealer.
I showed him the note and he said it was very nice.
The first thing we did was weigh the note, and then enter the weight into the gold tester.
We entered the Karat based on the note and then tested it and the tester said it wasn't gold?
So my dealer looked at the note and asked if we could do a small cut.
I said sure as I needed to find out what's up.
We made a small cut and that was when we discovered the center of the note is paper.
The paper is covered in a very thin gold foil.
Based on the acid test we concluded the gold foil is at least 23K and the silver is just a thin applique which must be bonded to the gold.
Based on 2.2 Grams weight of the note, the tester said it had less then 10% gold.
No matter what setting we tried it wasn't enough gold to register.
So the dealers feelings are that the notes are at most .2 grams of gold (about $10 in gold), but due to
the work in removing it from the paper backing he wouldn't buy it.
The notes basically only have collector value and insignificant gold value.
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In answer to this email, I told him that he could do what he wanted with the bill and that it was good to finally know that the real value of these notes are not what many of us may have thought.
So, I figured that all of you should profit from the knowledge that we have gained, and not have to find out the hard way like it seems that I did.
(I payed $1155.00 back in "99" for this set. And you can buy them today for around $500.00)

A bout a couple years ago at coin shows some dealers had many different country"s banknotes gold foil for around 10.00 for sale they look really well made as I said earlier the two Canadian dealer that recently sold these sets can smell money, but now you and everyone knows the story.

If I could prevent someone else from falling into the same predicament it was all worth while.