Fenntucky Mike

Hello and welcome to the Forum. You have some interesting notes but it does not appear that they are very collectible, at least not in the hopes of getting any return on them. It looks like they are all worth face value. The coins I'm not sure about. Try posting those over at NGC. https://boards.ngccoin.com/forum/6-us-world-and-ancient-coins/

Wizard coin supply usually has a wide selection of PVC currency sleeves to choose from. It looks like they are out of the SAFGARD sleeves, which I typically get for long term storage, but there is still a selection of other sleeves available. https://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/products/currency-sleeves/ If you search safgard currency sleeve on ebay there are several sellers there who have them in stock. Most sleeves are PVC free and are composed of Mylar or polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

+21 = 3,758 10 Hryven +1 20 Hryven +2 50 Hryven +2 200 Hryven +2 500 Hryven +1 50 Karbovantsiv +2 1000 Karbovantsiv +10 2000 Karbovantsiv +1

Oh man! Some of my references have such nice big blank areas just begging for me scribble in them, I can't resist. I don't markup any of my classic references but on the moderns I show no mercy, especially when I have a "virgin" backup sitting on the shelf.

An connected pair, cut from a sheet, both notes are cancelled. I knew the notes were cut from a sheet when I picked them up but I had never seen uncut Coupons before and since they had the selvage attached with cut/centering marks I just couldn't pass these up.

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Hi, Could slots be added to the Ukrainian National Bank, Hryvnia 1995-1998 Issue, P103-P115, Specimen, Complete set for all specimen varieties, similar to what was done for the Ukrainian National Bank, Karbovantsiv 1991-1995 Issue, P81-P100, Specimen, Complete set. Right now it is just a type set. Cert #'s for reference: 2177223-010 2177223-009 2177223-011 2177223-006 2177223-007 2177223-013 2177223-012 Thanks,

Excellent pickup! It looks like there is a ton of great information contained within. I may take a look into this book and get a copy myself, I'm always interested in good world note reference material whether I actively collect in that area or not. How do you "save" your translations? I ended up make notations in the book, not optimal but I didn't want a separate location where I kept them and had to reference between a book and my translations.

Hello, All modern notes are issued in bundles of consecutively numbered notes, it is not rare to find or have consecutive notes of this type. So, no added value. They are nice looking notes, the ink on the top note is excellent, if you like them keep them.

Not quite sure what you mean by Label name but they request that you enter the Pick # or appropriate reference number on the submission form and to place a label on the sleeve/holder with the submission form number and line number, for example XXXXXXX-001. The note is sent back in the appropriate sized holder but there is an added fee for the oversize and custom holders. You have to select those boxes if the size of the note warrants it. Imaging means that PMG will take a picture of your note and email it to you for a fee, I would personally skip that option. Don't check that box. Here are some helpful links for the PMG website. https://www.pmgnotes.com/submit/services-fees/pmg/ https://www.pmgnotes.com/about/faq/

+2 = 3,737 5 Karbowanez +1 10 Karbowanez +1

That's a good looking note, seems pretty dang clean and problem free. Nice!

Holly cow @VE Coins you killed it! Weill done my friend! Here is my answer key. The lighting played some tricks on the fifth note down on the left column of notes, it makes the face look lighter than what it is, the note is more easily identified as a T1 by looking at the back as it has the lighter colored outside line on the central ornamentation and the lighter overall ornamentation in general. An extremely difficult task to preform based solely on pictures, and not so great pictures at that. I am truly impressed and appreciate you taking a stab at it. A+

Congratulations on the set CCUK! Those are some fantastic looking notes and the information contained within the set is much appreciated. Your set has motivated me to try and complete one set this year, meaning adding a worthwhile set description and information on the individual notes, and I'm totally stealing the idea of including images in the description as well. It's so nice to have some short sets like the Banco de Tamaulipas for people to collect, this is something that is severely lacking for the Ukrainian registry. It's much harder to wrap up a 100+ note set at the last minute.

It's the latest/greatest, and the same edition I own, but there is not really any additional info on these notes in their though. Good luck! Hopefully they grade as high as you think. I took a quick look around this morning and didn't really see any past sales for these, you could try looking at greysheet.com or get the latest issue of greensheet to see if they have pricing. One of those should. https://www.greysheet.com/publications/greensheet

I have the latest edition of Friedberg. Looks like they are from a short run of 320k so there is probably a premium above face value for them, if you search some auction sites like Heritage Auctions, Stack's Bowers, even Ebay, for ungraded notes in relatively the same condition that have sold, that should give you some idea of their value. I don't collect these but I'll do a little poking around to see if I find out anything interesting. Typically star notes don't have much if any value over face, $100's especially since most people don't want, or can't afford, to hold onto a large denomination note with little value over face, these could be an exception to the rule due to the low print run. EDIT TO ADD: Notes issued by the BEP are done so in consecutively numbered straps, that the notes are consecutive does not add any value a vast majority of the time. There is no premium attached to your notes for being consecutive IMO.

+48 = 3,735 5 Hryven +2 10 Hryven +2 20 Hryven +7 50 Hryven +4 100 Hryven +5 200 Hryven +10 500 Hryven +4 1000 Hryven +3 2 Hryvni +2 1 Hryvnia +1 50 Karbovantsiv +1 250 Karbovantsiv +1 2,000,000 Karbovantsiv +2 20 Karbowanez +1 100,000 Karbovantsiv +1 200,000 Karbovantsiv +1 50,000 Karbovantsiv +1

Welcome to the Forum. The Friedberg number is 2182-E*

I sent off a second submission of specimen notes to PMG and I have to say that the team at PMG did a fantastic job as the notes arrived just prior to hurricane Ian and were sent back shortly after Ian passed. Even though PMG had to shut down due to Ian, the submission was processed well under the stated turnaround time. Amazing job! Unlike my first submission, in which all the notes straight graded, it seems that I had a few problem notes in my second, one I knew of and two I didn't. In addition to the low points there were also some "high notes" which are worthy of celebrating. I'll go through all the notes in the submission with some short comments on each, and a dedicated Journal entry on one note to be forthcoming. Right off the bat the first note in the submission was body-bagged. It was labeled as QA (Questionable Authenticity). I have a request into PMG to see if there were any graders notes for this one and I'm also waiting for two more of these notes to arrive from sellers in the U.K. and the Czech Republic which I recently picked up. If you haven't already guessed I'll be writing about this one later once I have more info, for now it's a note that PMG won't encapsulate. Ouch! I was not charged the grading fee for this note. Next up was a note that finished out the Control Coupon registry set that PMG has. It's always a good feeling to finish out a set! I'll have more on these notes later and what I think constitutes a complete set, including varieties. Hopefully I'll get PMG to agree to adding a few, unlisted at the moment, varieties and expand that set even further. The back of the note is of the same design as the note above but in green ink and with the numerical denomination 50. Notes 3-5 were all additions to my 1991-'95 specimen set, specifically the 2nd through 5 series coupons, all three received numerical grades in the range I expected with two being towards the high end and one being graded 68 EPQ! Sweet! There was one slight disappointment in this group though, the 1994 100,000 Karbovantsiv note came up short and did not receive the EPQ designation. It's a tough note to find and the condition wasn't on par with the others, but I was hoping to squeeze out an EPQ designation on this one. It's the only note in the set without exceptional paper quality, I'll be keeping my eye out for another example, but it will probably be a long while before this note pops up again. Pick # 97s2 has the same back design as the note above, 96s3. Now this is one sweet note, one of the very few Ukrainian specimen notes with the specimen overprint on only one side. Pick 98s2 in my set is also graded 68 EPQ making a matching set, quality wise, for me. The rest of the specimen notes are denominated in Hryvnia and are the first such notes I've submitted. Again, there is some highs and lows in here but nothing as dramatic as the first five notes above. All in all not bad, but I need to pay more attention to what I send in for grading. Gotta hone my skills a bit more. Not a great result on this one but more are easily had and are relatively inexpensive. Note #7, not too bad. Notes 8 & 9 are duplicates, the note with the "Tears" annotation was a little disappointing but I should have caught that one. Serves me right for being in a hurry and not examining the notes further prior to submitting. Live and learn. Notes 10 & 11 are of the same series but different signature varieties. The grades are on par with the rest of the Hryvnia denominations. Finally a couple of 20 Hryven notes from the same series with signature/date varieties. All in all, not bad results and it'll be interesting to see what PMG says about the first note, that is if they say anything, but if I could change one grade it would be to give P97s2 an EPQ designation. It really bugs me to see all the EPQ notes in that set and then run into this one none EPQ note, it makes the set feel unbalanced. I'll just have to live with it for now. On another note, I managed to find a 100 Karbovantsiv specimen note to bring me closer to finishing out the 2nd - 5th coupon series notes and I'm contemplating sending in some of my older Ukrainian notes to fill out the front half of my type set. We'll see when I get around to that though as I'd like to see some changes made and I'm not sure PMG is going to agree with me on them, probably not.

There are confirmed examples of T1 and T2 notes of the 1992 issued coupons in denominations of 100, 500, & 1000 karbovantsiv, none have been confirmed of the 200 karbovantsiv notes but I suspect they exist. As far as additional identifying markers on the 100 & 1000 denomination notes, beyond the initial ones posted in Part 1, I don't know but I will begin to study each in turn and will post any findings. Circulated notes of this era are cheap, you can get 100 notes for under $20 including shipping, it's an inexpensive research project that has been a blast and yielded results. The UV ink is a real head scratcher! While I'm waiting for the notes to arrive I think I'll do a little research into the longevity of UV and how it holds up in circulation. All the notes have UV fibers in them and those all illuminate when placed under UV, of course the fibers are embedded in the paper while the ink, if any was used, would be on the surface. My gut feeling is that there are four varieties in this denomination T1 with UV, T1 without UV, T2 with UV, T2 without UV, and the remainders which all have had UV so far, I guess that makes five varieties if you count the remainders, I just don't know the prefix ranges for each and would like to be a little more educated on UV ink. I'd also like to upgrade my UV light situation and will be doing so soon. Awesome!

In further researching the subject of Type 1 & 2 notes of the second series control coupons of 1992, 500 Karbovantsiv notes only, and acquiring and examining roughly 75 circulated notes and a dozen uncirculated, in addition to viewing another 100 or so examples online, there appears to be additional identifying markers between the two variants. Whether these markers are due to plate, ink or production variations is not known, by me anyway, but they have so far held true when used with the original fractional prefix denominator number ranges given in my previous Journal entry for T1 & 2 notes and the initial indicators used i.e., gapping between prefix and serial number and light or dark shading in the area of the prefix and serial number. In addition to the original diagnostics, it would appear that the T1 notes with denominators of 5,6,7,8 &15 were more heavily inked, or a darker ink mix was used in certain areas, specifically, on the face, the word КУПОН (COUPON) and the numerical denomination 500 located immediately below, on the back, the ornamentation has the same light and dark variations. On the face of T1 notes the word КУПОН is darker than on the T2 notes, as is the numerical denomination below, and on the back of the T1 notes the ornamentation around the numerical denominations is lighter than on the T2 notes, also, the central ornamentation on the back of T1 notes is again lighter than on the T2 notes. Also, all replacement notes (denominator 99) seem to be universally of the T2 variety, having the same diagnostics that are associated with the T2's. T2 notes (including replacements) are much more easily found in uncirculated condition which would suggest a common printing date/production after the T1 notes and this would follow an ascending numbering sequence for the denominators. T2 notes with denominator 28 seem to be rare at best, as I have yet to cross paths with one. Of the 75 circulated notes I have 48 are T1's and 27 are T2's, this falls in line with the number of denominators used for T1 and T2 circulating notes, five denominators for T1 notes and three for T2 notes, 5:3, assuming all production runs with unique denominators were of roughly the same size. Unfortunately, even though additional diagnostic markers have been found to differentiate between T1 and T2 notes I am no closer to figuring out what is going on with the UV ink in the numerical denomination and background on the face of the note, as all of the circulated notes either have none or only slight traces of UV in those areas. Most of the circulated notes show no signs of UV, leaving me to believe that it has worn off? The uncirculated notes that I have are too few to come to any conclusions on what notes may have UV ink and which do not. The only notes of this type that have had UV ink in the denominator and background every time are the replacement notes, this would lead me down the path that all T2 notes would also have UV ink since they share everything else in common and yet the circulated notes do not reflect this assumption. More on that later, I hope, as I have another hundred circulated notes from a different source on the way. Just for fun I took a pic of the face and back of a mix of twenty-four T1 and T2 notes, not having been previously identified in this journal entry, and I wonder if anyone wants to take a shot at identifying the T1 and T2 notes in the image. Most of the prefix and serial numbers are covered up so you'll have to use the second set of diagnostics given in this Journal entry to identify them. Although I guess you could go back, using the totals and notes I've already posted, to come up with the numbers. So no cheating. I'll post the answer key later in the week, all notes are in the same location in each picture. Good luck.