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"long hair freaky people" Only!

**WARNING:READING THIS JOURNAL ENTRY MAY CAUSE SEVERE BRAIN PAIN, DO NOT READ THIS ENTRY IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ANYTHING WORTH RETAINING.** I was looking at my Ukrainian banknotes yesterday and after inspecting the reverse of the 1992 5 Hryven note I couldn't help but say to myself "Damn, that's one crazy stash! What's with all the hair on these notes?". Yep, that thought was all the encouragement my brain needed to leap from the structure of reality and plunge frontal lobe first into the "de

Fenntucky Mike

Fenntucky Mike in Musings

You Can't Hurry (Notes) / No, You'll Just Have To Wait

Moving past the you/you'll lyric debate, , and now having grabbed all the low hanging fruit of Ukrainian banknotes, I'm realizing that further progress will be slow in the acquisition department. In my Ukrainian 1917-Date set I have 37 slots left to fill, out of 112, two of those empty slots (Picks 50 & 125) are $1,000 + notes in any grade so I don't really consider them required for completion. Another two slots (Picks 87A & 87B) were never printed/issued, other than proofs and specimen

Fenntucky Mike

Fenntucky Mike in Musings

Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy [BORING] Days Of Summer

It's been a slow start to the summer so far, granted this is only day 5 , but with the unofficial start being Memorial Day and the year being somewhat slow with NEWPS for me, it's been a real drag so far. I put together a submission to PMG and shipped it off yesterday. The submission consisting of the 1992, 50 & 100 Hryven red-overprint and perforated varieties and a few proofs, or at least I hope they are, I wouldn't be surprised if the proofs came back as QA. Once the 50 & 100 Hryven v

Fenntucky Mike

Fenntucky Mike in Musings

Like A Book On A Shelf Rusting

I was rearranging my books and making/installing a new shelf for them in my office at work, the ones that I keep there anyway, and it got me thinking about why I decided to acquire the books that I did for my Ukrainian banknote collection. The rhyme and reason behind my acquisitions of these tomes has swung wildly from start to present, I say present because I'm not done building my library and currently have two more references on the way after winning two auctions last night.  In the beginning

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