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Picked up this $5 silver cert to match a $10 silver cert I bought years ago (also pictured below).

Here's some notes you don't see every day. They are Allied Military Currency used in Italy in WWII. These are star notes and are very hard to find in this condition.

The notes were printed by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company in Boston under government contract but the serial numbers were added by the BEP - which is pretty obvious if you are familiar with US currency from this period.

Also picked up this 1882DB National Bank Note at CPMX 2010. Its the only known $10DB from this bank.

I picked up the first note in 2008. It was the lowest known 1963 $2 LT Star Note at the time. I just picked up its long lost brother at CPMX 2010, which is now the new lowest-known!

Interestingly, both grade VF30, A00000083* being in a PMG holder, and A00000082* in a PCGS holder.

I like the design, except for the inkwell. I hope its not so in-your-face in hand as it is on the image.

The thing I find most interesting is they mark notes as "SPECIMEN" to make them worthless, yet notes marked "SPECIMEN" become instant collectibles worth many multiples of face value. Your government at work.

I hope its a nice design because it will be the new $1 bill and we will be using a lot of them when hyper-inflation rears it head.

I've been looking for one of these without the usual water stains for a while. This one, though only mid grade, has none of the water staining problems and all the colors are still quite vivid. Even the pen signature is still sharp.

First of all... welcome!

Obviously grading is subjective and also not easy from a scan but from what I can see you have a nice VF-20 to VF-30 note. Enjoy!

Nice one!

1886 $10 Silver Cert. The finest of 10 examples of FR-293 from the Oat Bin Hoard. This 1966 discovery consisted of approximately $40,000 face value of large size US notes, found in a farm shed near Kansas City, MO.

The Ace looks like it is a extra fine to me.

I suspect it has one too many folds for a techincal XF. Will know when it arrives.

Don't have these in hand yet but here are my two wins from the recent Knight Auction:

Ace in a PMG 35 holder....

Black Eagle Star....

Nice one Dean. These early FRN stars are underrated and will have their day sometime soon.

Always cool to get a home-town national. Congrats!

Love them both. Those 1966 red seal $100 bills are hard to find in Gem CU much less with with that low s/n. The $10 1934 silver certificate is very nice. Are you going to send the $10 in for certification? Great pickups. I'm jealous.

 

Dean

Thanks. I'm very happy with both notes. As for certifying the $10, I did quite the opposite - the $100 has already been removed from its holder. They fit better in my albums when they are not in holders. Most small size notes I intend to keep for a long time will get cut out, especially if they are in a non-PMG holder.

Some low serial goodness arrived from my friends at usarare:

Very nice star notes and the low serial numbers boost their value upwards.

 

Dean

 

(thumbs u

As well as their cost, unfortunately.... Glad you like 'em!

Picked up a couple of series 1963 low serial stars. From 2 different sources but they are a good match. Both face up CU but are in really only Choice AU.