Rarest Note In Your Collection?

These are some of my best Currency errors..

First is a cutting error that had taken 2 submissions and 6 months for PMG to understand that this was a genuine error, and not one of the many fakes that ebay allows on their site..

This frosted me as I included all the necessary information on the PMG form showing the error to be genuine, only to learn that the PMG Graders have zero access to the submission forms, and information is NOT shared..




Next is my PMG Natick and Web errors that had been in individual holders till a few weeks ago when I had them placed in chronological order, in a 3 - Note Holder..

Since these are the only 3 $1. FRN Blocks that can be classified as overprint on back errors on Experiemental Notes, and the 14 year long search to obtain one example each, I believe it belongs together as a complete set in one holder..

This set is followed by 2 more Natick Errors, one PMG & the other PCGS (they would make the correction as PMG did, but I don't have a PCGS acct.)

Quote from the USParerMoney.Info website;











Anyone following my Natick and Web-Press Error Census here on CCF, knows the Confirmed Natick Error Test Notes is currently 14 Notes (from a span of 18 16-subject sheets) and 5 Notes Each from both the series 1988A Web A-F & G-P Blocks. While many Natick Errors await discovery, only the right half of one sheet each has the overprint on back error..

These are the only 2 Half Sheets with this error in the 4 1/2 Year Web-Press Run..

Should anyone have a Inverted Overprint on a Web-Press Note, post it here as they are extremely rare also..

Next is a unique bank of England 20 Pound triple serial number error I purchased from the person that received it early March 2006.










In the 10 Year Search since this error was found, no other notes from the 40 subject sheet have been located, and I have spent countless time searching and subscribing to Token magazine, to post this note in their magazine..

Next are 2 Pakistan double serial number errors on 2006 dated 1000 Rupees (1st released in circulation on Feb.26,2007)..

I purchased these in 2007, and with the wide spread of serial numbers, had held off on certification until mailing them out today to PMG..

To my surprise, I have found no other examples in the 8+ Years..

Also unique (IMO) is the multiple prefix letter, 1st I have viewed..

With my past history at PMG, I included 8 pages of this notes security features information attached to both notes for the graders (if they have any trouble confirming these, they need to seek other employment)..

When I receive them back, I will post what this note looks like under a black light (awesome thread colors)..




That's it for now, and most likely forever..

Steve, very nice $1 FRN

Robert Azpiazo lists it as his #1 rarest non-star $1 FRN in "The Collectors Guide to $1 FRN's Series 1963 - 2003A". When he published his book 13 years ago, he indicated it was unknown in CU, but that has obviously changed.

Here's another pretty rare $1 FRN. This 1993 FRB Minneapolis note is listed as tied for 10th rarest non-star note by Robert.

Since I collect A block $1 FRB District Sets, it's probably the "rarest" $1 FRN I'll ever have in my collection. There was a single printing of "only" 25,600,000 of this note, so there is only an A block. While this printing is low for $1 FRNs, it's not the lowest non-star printing. I believe that distinction goes to the series 1999 FRB Minneapolis note with half as many notes (12,800,000) printed. Yet, the 1993 note is valued at nearly 20 times the 1999 note, which has always been a mystery to me. I asked Alex Delatola (APD Currency) about it one time and he said he thought these notes may have been mostly shipped to Ecuador (if you didn't know, the official currency of Ecuador is the US dollar) and that resulted in their relative rarity. I don't know if this is the explanation, but at least it's a reason

Probably this note. Only 600 printed and only 1 other known.

Steve,

looks like you gave life to a dead thread.

I had forgotten this & now wish I had posted the photos via CCF's Image Optimizer instead of Photobucket.

Should anyone start a New "Rarest Note In Your Collection" since photobucket removed past images until you pay a subscription fee, I will do the same on the World Currency Forum, and link them to each other.

Like you, I have some rare U.S. notes here, and even rarer Foreign Notes. I'm guessing "Rarest" can be Value, Population Census, etc.. My post's would be something like - "This is the fourth (5th,6th and so on) rarest note in my collection because. . . . . . "

As a numbers guy, when the BEP started printing 50 subjects per sheet on the SOI Press & Overprinting on LEPE, the individual serial number plate positions for sheet location can now be found in the last 4 digits of the serial number, and now taking the fun out of it. (I did make charts when I noticed this, and they're somewhere way down the list).

Old habits die hard, and when I seen the 100k Sheet Run and serial number J02576832D on today's post, I do what I normally do to confirm the serial #'s Plate Position, I was surprised to find the serial number on this note is the COPE Plate Position ((when you round UP to the next whole number (same as the series 2013/17 $1 FRN's)). This was a first for me on a COPE serial number.

With a 3.2 million note Run, I take the serial number and divide by the Run size, minus any whole number then multiply by 32 (Notes per sheet), and round Up to next whole number and you get the COPE Plate Position for said note.

J02576832D = 2576832 divided by 3200000 = 0.80526 (no whole # to minus) x 32 = 25.76832 rounded up to 26 or Plate Position B4. This was the 1st time the serial number matched the plate position formula and now I'm thinking all 100k Sheet Runs most likely have the identical results on the first Run.

*The Inverted Overprint errors on series 1988A Web Notes Census just increased by 4 newly confirmed serials*

B-C, there's a Temporary Forum for Uploading Photobucket Images to Broken Posts, if you're so inclined.

I agree. If you want to upload them here we can fix it the posts.

Well, it ain't much to look at, but here it is. New Hampshire Colonial Currency June 28, 1776. I still consider it American, if not strictly United States.

This is probably my rarest note. On Bank of England notes of the 1970s and 1980s, the M prefix was used to designate a replacement note, like a star in the USA. The Newton reverse pound note was the last Bank of England note of that value: it was issued from 1978 to 1980 with the signature of J B Page and from 1980 to 1985 with the signature of D H F Somerset. Only one replacement prefix - M01 - is known for the whole series, so fewer than 1 million of these notes were printed.