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1899 $2 Mini Porthole Silver Certificate Lyons Roberts

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 Posted 05/08/2016  4:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Very nice - keep us up to date!

Almost impossible to grade high-end PM from pics.

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 Posted 05/08/2016  5:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
PS - My general sense is possibly AU-50/53, or a 3-fold EF-45 at worst based on shadow lines.

As to scarcity, this note (as the first issue) is generally among the least expensive in the series grade-for-grade.
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 Posted 05/08/2016  9:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add barryg to your friends list
Assuming it's genuine, it's stunning!

Much nicer than mine as well:

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 Posted 05/08/2016  9:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add WheatBack to your friends list
Lyons/Roberts is actually pretty common. It has what looks like 3 folds which will probably net it an XF40/45. Still a nice note.
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 Posted 05/09/2016  12:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bryan78 to your friends list
Sharp looking note... Back when our bills were designed with class...
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 Posted 05/09/2016  05:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SteveInTampa to your friends list

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Sharp looking note... Back when our bills were designed with class...


Nice note @georgescoins, and I do like the front design with George Washington on the front......however, I prefer our current back design on two dollar bills.

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 Posted 05/09/2016  08:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bryan78 to your friends list

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Nice note @georgescoins, and I do like the front design with George Washington on the front......however, I prefer our current back design on two dollar bills.


I do like some of the aspects of today's currency ($2 and $50 bills are really nice bills) but I just think the older bills were designed and look so much better...
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 Posted 05/09/2016  5:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
As much as I love the older notes, I would agree with Steve that the reverse of the modern $2 deserves virtually permanent representation on our currency. This is among the most famous of American historical paintings ("The Declaration of Independence"}, done by John Trumbull around 1817. as you may know. If you have had the wonderful experience of seeing it, you can also appreciate its massive size, some 18 feet wide by 12 feet high.
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 Posted 05/09/2016  7:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
PS - It was in fact used on an early large-size note, the First Charter NBN $100 issue.
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 Posted 05/10/2016  01:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add techwriter to your friends list
An 'edited' version appears on this Maine banknote:
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P.S. The note is not mine, found the picture "somewhere" but cannot remember where.
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 Posted 05/31/2016  01:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Scottlocklear to your friends list
Can anyone please tell me what this is
Its blank on the back side.
But it is printed on money paper.

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05/31/2016 01:33 am
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 Posted 05/31/2016  10:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bryan78 to your friends list
Looks like a replica to me since there is no serial numbers attached to it...
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 Posted 05/31/2016  1:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MeadowviewCollector to your friends list
Scottlocklear

What you have isn't a replica rather it is a cut down BEP Souvenir card for the 2002 ANA http://www.kenbarr.com/BEP/b261.jpg


-MV
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 Posted 05/31/2016  1:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hajduk to your friends list
Congrats georgescoins
Your bill looks awesome.
Here are my examples.


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 Posted 05/31/2016  5:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
I think hajduk owns roughly half of all US large size notes in Western Europe!
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