Ducksoup Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Hi, I've just recently decided to collect the occasional piece of currency based on if the design catches my eye or not. I know this might seem like a whimsical way to collect but I have a higher focus on collecting coins that fill in my collection (and have some silver or gold in them in case the economy takes a dump). I have a few $1 silver certificates, a few $2 bills and a couple star notes. What I'm wondering is how many different color seals are on US currency and also which bills are considered to have fantastic designs? Thanks for your help. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZES-migration Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 Small size seals: Green of course Brown - Hawaii emergency notes - Nationals Yellow (with blue serial numbers) - North Africa emergency notes Blue - silver certs Red - legal tender notes Then you get into light green, dark green, dark blue/purple, ect.... but those are the base colors of the seals. I did not add anything as far as the modern colorized notes or anything for the large size notes as I do not collect them. It would make a cool collection to make a denomination of each type of note, ie...gold cert, silver cert, hawaii, north africa, frn, legal tender, ec.... it would be colorful and interesting. I've thought about doing this myself in addition to my emergency note collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZES-migration Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 Forgot too add that the cool engravings are mostly found on the large size bills IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A. Collection Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 Great info ZES! I go back and forth between coin and paper. Whatever catches my eye I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A. Collection Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 Yellow (with blue serial numbers) - North Africa emergency notes I happened to come across a $10 one this weekend at a flea/antique place in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
