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Also I am realizing that I should probably get a nice scanner so that I can have good images of my notes.

I definitely agree with this as well. Its cool to see the different time periods for these types of bills from these countries and others like it. From older designs that were more like pieces of art up to communist rule and having strong themes of labor and workers. I find it really interesting and it is what has drawn me to Czechoslovakia and other countries like it.

The last day of the Labor Day weekend and then back to work tomorrow morning. Where I live it has been super hot all weekend with temperatures up to 100 degrees or more. This past month has been kind of slow in the acquisition department. Not as many Czechoslovakian note that I am looking for have come on the market recently, and it seems like less quality items as well. I have picked up a few smaller notes for my main set, a 25 Korun from 1961. I also managed to snag a 500 Latu 1929 note from Latvia. I think that this note is beautiful and while the example that I picked up shows some wear I still think it is a great note. A couple weeks ago a specimen of the 500 Latu came up for sale from seller out of Canada. I knew that this note was going to sell for a lot of money but it ended up selling for $8000 when it was all said and done. I'll have to see what the future holds and if anything new or interesting comes up in the next month, currently I'm watching a few interesting items with the hopes that they wont go too much out of my budget.

Very cool notes, I looked at the auction listing for the 5 chervontsiv and you weren't kidding about uber rare, I wonder how many of those survive when the pmg population is only 3? I have kind of been in the same boat lately, mostly buying notes for other sets or coins and nothing too exciting has come up lately.

May and June were pretty big months for my Czechoslovakia set. I got my submission back from PMG the first part of June. Most of my notes came back at about the grades that I had guessed they would, I had a couple come back higher as well! Unfortunately I had 2 notes come back as questionable authenticity. They were both early notes with stamps affixed to the notes to make them legitimate Czech notes and I believe that the stamps were probably added after the fact now. In looking at them the stamps have more wear and are discolored where as the notes are in decent condition. This is a mistake that I should have caught but I guess you learn from your mistakes. One of the best notes that I got back was this 10 korun from 1919, this was from the same lot of notes that all the other 1919 ones were from. It is a beautiful note still has good color, a few minor stains but not enough to get any comments on the back or net grade so I was happy that this one straight graded. The H series is also the rarer series of this note with H35 being the last series before it switched to O36-O210. June was also big for me my first note of this set was graded personally in December of 2020, and after about 3 years of work on this set I now have the number 1 set in the category and I'm closing in on 50% completion. I am still on the lookout and have started acquiring notes for my next submission, maybe sometime next year. I think that realistically my goal for this set is 90% completion, I think that is a doable number for this set because after that there are about 10-15 notes where every note is easily 4 figures maybe 5. Until the next update, thanks for reading!

Nice additions this month! I really like the Suriname note, its cool to see the changes that occurred after WW2. Thanks for the post, your set is coming together nicely.

This seller has had some fantastic specimen czech notes that have gone for really high values as well, some of them early on went for 2k+. I would have loved to get one but unfortunately they were way to far above my budget at this time. I don't know where they got all these specimen notes but they have had a lot of them.

This evening I got the email notification that my PMG submission had shipped out and so I immediately checked the results. I am super excited by the results and I'll explain why. Last summer I was browsing new Czechoslovakian banknote listings when I came across one with a couple ratty looking bills as the first picture. It said 6 bills so I looked at the pictures and hidden on the next pictures where 3 notes from 1919 that looked beautiful. The seller had it as an auction starting at $5 but they also had a make an offer option. Not knowing if the notes were real and with it not being a banknote seller I made an offer of $120 hoping it would be enough to entice them and they accepted. When I got the notes in the mail the next week my heart sank a little. The 50 korun 1919 felt wrong compared to the rest of the notes and I couldn't find the watermark. The paper felt very slick. I was a bit bummed, still excited that I got the rest of the notes and even if the one was wrong I still got a good deal on the rest. I kept researching the note looking at ones for sale and trying to find resources that talked about it. I still figured it was a fake but kept it with my Czech notes trying to determine if it truly was or not. It is the only Czech note printed using lithography. Eventually when I was getting my submission ready I decided that I would send it with. I was on the fence, the details were all right but the feel was still wrong to me. But I took the chance. And I am super excited that it came back legitimate. It is unfortunately not in the best condition. It has tears and annotations on the back. But I am stoked. The last one to sell on heritage was in 2019 it was graded a 30 and went for $1500 and currently on Aukro.cz there is a graded example in 25 very fine that is listed for 55000 czk = ~$2500 usd. I cant wait to get this back and see it in person. I'll probably have another post here soon because I have some other notes that I'm excited about in this submission but I just wanted to share this.

I've definitely had it cross my mind before to do a definitive reference set for the Czech lands, going all the way from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, Bohemia and Moravia up to the modern Czech Koruna and Slovakian Euro notes. It would be my impossible set for sure and the complete set would be close to 300 notes by my rough calculations.

He does kind of look like scrooge , I finally got around to posing an journal update.

Been a little while since I posted. The winter has been kind of slow for acquiring banknotes, I picked up a few good pickups and lost out on quite a few others. Czech notes are still pretty hot and most of the ones that I lost out on I had solid bid that I thought would be enough, but alas. I actually just got a submission packed up to send off to PMG. I haven't submitted notes in a little over a year so I have 16 notes that I am looking forward to getting back. All Czechoslovakia notes, most of them are early notes that you just don't see come up for sale graded often, and when they do they are usually buy it now for way too much. The most exciting pickup that I had last month was the Czechoslovakia P 1a, it is part of the first series of notes that were just Austro-Hungarian notes with provisional stamps attached. This one is in pretty good condition all things considering, it has a small fold at the top left corner and a couple corners show some dings or rounding, but it doesn't have any folds in the center. I'm guessing that it would be about a 55 when graded. A pickup that doesnt fit into any of my current sets was this Croatia 5000 Kuna from 1943. I really liked the design and the traditional dress. This 50 korun P 85a came out of nowhere and I ended up picking it up pretty quickly from the seller. The last main pickup that I had was this 100 korun P 86a. I'm slowly filling out the socialist republic notes in my set. Most of those have been through sellers, as more of them are available and graded. I think the notes of the Socialist Republic era of the 50's and 60's are cool, the communist influences are very strong throughout. While I personally think the early notes of 1919-1920 are some of my favorites these are great as well. Until next time.

Great looking notes added to your collection. I like the 20 cent note and it kind of reminds me of notgeld notes. Very cool.

Would P94 be able to be split out to allow 94A, 94B, and 94C to each have their own slots in the Czechoslovakia complete including varieties. Thanks

Wow that's crazy, I know notes have been going for more money but did this go for more than you thought it would or more than it should have?

Yeah I'll agree with you, it seems like there has been less available. Recently this note popped up, and while I'm not trying to get it I think it is a really nice note. Some of the notes from around that time period are so colorful and detailed. I am actually having the opposite problem, the chat boards work just fin for me at my desktop computer but if I try and access them on my phone it loads wrong and is all jumbled. NGC works just fine on both for me as well.