Post Your Favorite Note

This.. Is a very hard thing to do!

I feel both nostalgic and irony. Nostalgia because of the memories from that time of my young life, and the ironic part is setting a one dollar bill aside as a teen, and being a paper money collector as a senior.

One of my favorites is this Fr.2300*. This is as close to an uncirculated example as I can afford. This series, to me, always looks like the paper is off white, or dirty white. I have examined this note every which way I can and am unable to find a fold, but alas it is About Uncirculated.

Deleted due to Photobucket issue, will try later, sorry.
Let's try again, I was certain this Hawaii $1 would grade as a NET or APPARENT due to the upper right corner; but surprise, surprise.
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tech - you mean that (apparent) smudge in the margin? What do you make of it?

PaperChaser - good choice. If we have not welcomed you before then -



to the CCF and especially the elite members-only Paper Money Forum!

Just came across another favorite note of mine. I found it in the beginning of this summer. The note itself is not special to me but the serial number is. I was born on July 25th, 1954, I own 2-65' Chevrolet SS and my name is Frank.

Coming up with a single favorite is really tough. I'll have to ponder that some. In the meantime, I'm going to take some liberties and post a very recent pair of notes that is among my favorites. I found the top note on June 1 and the bottom note on July 14:



What I am mesmerized by is that the notes are from the same print run and share the same sheet number in the run (19,326). Finding two notes with the same sheet number and from the same print run is exceedingly difficult. Curiously, even though their sheet number is the same, those two notes were not part of the same original 32-subject sheet. The top note is from the left half of the run while the bottom note is from the right half of the run, and their face plate numbers are different -- 43 on the top note and 45 on the bottom note. (Their back plate numbers are also different -- 40 and 26, respectively.)

Serial overprinting is done on 16-subject half sheets, so the two halves of the run are actually independent of one another. That's the reason that you'll occasionally find a note whose plate position does not correspond with its serial number. If a half-sheet from quadrants 1 and 2 is mistakenly placed on the side for right-half serials (which is supposed to have half sheets from quadrants 3 and 4), that will result in notes with the "wrong" plate position -- A3 instead of A1, for example.

In the case of this pair of notes, both have plate positions from quadrant 1 -- A1 and H1. Normally that would mean the two notes were part of the very same half-sheet before it was cut into individual notes. But the serial number of the note from PP H1 corresponds to PP H3. So when this run was serialed, some left-hand sheets were mistakenly used for right-half serials while the corresponding left-half serials correctly used left-half sheets.