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$5 Kensington National Bank Of Philadelphia 1929 Note

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 Posted 04/27/2011  2:30 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add peteramadeus to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I picked one of these up yesterday on a whim.... I had met up with someone to buy some various coins we had already agreed on and they pulled this out. I asked how much they wanted for it and they said $10 so I snapped it up.

Anyone have any idea what these are worth? (general range since I don't have a scan yet)

I've scoured the web and there's no good resource on National Currency online, and the only book I have on small size notes (Standard Guide to Small Size US Paper Money) doesn't cover National Currency.

I'll post a scan tonight.

Thanks!
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04/27/2011 3:56 pm
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 Posted 04/27/2011  3:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add iamkayelem to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Depending on condition and rarity and what not... but $10 sounds like a pretty good deal to me. They're listed in Whitman's RedBook for about $90 in Very Fine, but that's a very broad number because there are large discrepancies between each bank with how many notes were printed.
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 Posted 04/27/2011  7:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add peteramadeus to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here's a scan of the note: http://postimage.org/image/1i7cg6bb8/
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 Posted 04/27/2011  8:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rickmp to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
In the (Krause) Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money, it lists for $50 in VG, $100 in VF, $300 in CH CU (63) and $375 in Gem CU (65). But book prices most likely skew to the high side. Yours is VG, at best. I hope this helps.
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04/27/2011 8:22 pm
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 Posted 04/28/2011  12:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add peteramadeus to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, rickmp.

Yeah it's pretty rough but for $10 I don't think I did too bad, it's still a cool note.

While I can't find any other notes from that specific bank the lowest I see other $5 National Currency notes go for on ebay no matter how rough looking is ~$20.

I'm mainly curious to know how many $5 notes were actually printed for this bank.
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 Posted 04/28/2011  01:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gyrene7483 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The reference National Bank Notes by Don Kelly lists it for $60.00 in fine condition. Yours would be less of course but still, $10.00 was a very fair price to pay for it.

peteramadeus, there were 56,820 Type I (9,470 sheets of six notes each. Serial numbers 1 - 9470) and 24,522 Type II (Serial numbers 1 - 24522) Series 1929 $5.00 notes issued from this bank. This note is a Type I note. Type I notes have a letter on both ends of the serial number and Type II notes have a letter on the left end only.
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 Posted 04/28/2011  01:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add peteramadeus to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks everyone for the input!
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