VE Coins

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.

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.

On 7/5/2023 at 4:40 PM, Fenntucky Mike said:

Wouldn't surprise me if this was accurate, there seems to be a very active banknote community in Canada. Ukrainian notes being sold through a Canadian dealer make some sense to me as there is a large population of Ukrainians living there, all the other notes.  Apparently they are well connected and stocked! 

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.

On 4/5/2023 at 1:55 PM, ColonialCoinsUK said:

@VE CoinsAll 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.

Same here, just not for Czechoslovakia!

I like the 50 Korun note and the Croatian one - a specific person?

Sounds like the definitive reference set needs putting together for the whole region

 

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.

On 4/4/2023 at 4:54 PM, Fenntucky Mike said:

I thought it was Ebenezer Scrooge on the face of the note.  Definitely looks like a piece of notgeld.

Pick up any notes lately?

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

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

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.

On 11/5/2022 at 8:37 AM, ColonialCoinsUK said:

Looks like a great reference book, with lots of detail which seems to be lacking for most countries.

@Fenntucky Mike I am allergic to writing on books, only just coming to terms with writing on PDF files

I am also not the type to write in my books, even if they are in a foreign language. I might make an exception for this book, but writing in books is usually a no go.

Finally got around to posting my response with what I think the notes are. 

Very interesting to read about this. Do you know if any variations exist between other Ukrainian notes from 1992 and this time period. Kind of strange that only the replacement notes have the UV ink in them. Hopefully with your 100 more notes it will be a big enough sample size to draw more conclusions. Ill take you up on your challenge and ill post a response with my guesses sometime soon.

Those are some nice notes you managed to pickup. Like you said they will show back up again though. There have been quite a few rare Czechoslovakia notes that have sold over the past few months, some I hadn't seen sell for a few years and they have been commanding very high prices as well. I still feel like I get a deal every now and again but I don't win too many auctions I compete for, things are going for more than I expect or can afford.

I kind of go for a mix of graded notes, mostly modern notes and most of the older notes I get are upgraded that I will submit eventually 

Hey, I had a chance to take a look at your signature set and I would be interested in your czechoslovakia 1000 korun. What would be the best way to talk and work out a deal?

I think your scans turned out great, the Russian 1 ruble note that says 1898 on it would have been printed between 1912- 1917 as it is the P#1d with Shipov signature, I'm unsure who's signature is the second though sorry. The other vertical note is P#11c with Shipovs name again but I don't know the other name. 
Hopefully this is somewhat helpful and maybe someone else will chime in as well.
I mainly collect Czechoslovakia banknotes but I have others as well.

I look forward to seeing more posts from you in the future.

That is a nice group of specimens you have, and I'm glad that they graded nicely.  Do you have any idea how many of the different specimens were produced for each different type, or is there anywhere where it is documented. Did Ukraine ever use regular issued bills as specimens like other countries did, where they would just punch out the word specimen. It's very interesting to see specimens from other countries that don't come up for sale as often. Great post!

On 6/15/2022 at 5:12 PM, Fenntucky Mike said:

Sorry just getting back to this, busy day at work. Would an authentic note have an adhesive stamp on it or was it a stamplike overprint? I'm assuming a stamplike overprint since that's what the contemporary counterfeit has, just curious as I've seen actual adhesive stamps used on other notes of the era. Also, it looks like the note was stamped multiple times do they all say "bankovní úřad ministerstva financí, praha" or were there other stamps used? I'm really liking these notes, thanks for sharing. 

 

The authentic notes have the stamp like overprint as well and it is the only note in the first series that used the stamp overprint all the other notes from that time had adhesive stamps. The adhesive stamp notes are cool as well, I have a couple so far. They can be hard to find in decent condition but like this note I'm not sure if they were stamping uncirculated notes or any notes they could get their hands on. The adhesive stamp notes have some counterfeits as well but i don't have any.. The multiple stamps are all the same as far as I can tell. I'm not sure why it was stamped multiple times.

So I remembered your previous post about these and how they did the grid kind of haphazardly on the fakes and so my initial guess not reading was that 4, and 6 were real the rest were counterfeit. After reading I believe that 4 is fake as well based on the font on the back and that 6 is the only real one. I really like these posts!

On 4/28/2022 at 5:59 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

That 24s is a beauty! Czech '60-'64 and '85-'89 issue notes are some of the best looking notes ever made IMO. 

How was the turnaround time at PMG?

My submission was received Feb 25 and mailed out to me March 28, so a little over a month for standard grading. I thought the turnaround time was great, last submission I did was a modern coin last year that I mailed in August and got back in December.

Those sets seem interesting but I've picked up a couple of the new notes individually. I also totally agree with you that packages from Ukraine have been incredibly slow, I just got a couple packages this week that I had ordered early to mid December.