Leo T. reviewed The Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Paper Money 2013, 45th Edition on + 1775 more book reviews
Obtained for two bits from the sale shelf at the branch library and I read some of it on the bus. I haven't looked at a Blackbook for several years (always preferring for coins the Red Book by R.S. Yeoman), but this is of interest to guys. It is mainly a listing of issues by signature combinations, date, etc. There are a fair number of illustrations and introductions provided for each section are interesting.
I am surprised at the increase in the cost of the commonest CSA notes ($5 and $10 of 1864) as they were plentiful at less than $2 each when JFK was president. Jim Coffee, our family friend, then told me that in the days of McKinley he and his cousins played with a trunk full of CSA money in his grandmother's North Carolina plantation house. When Sherman's bummers were approaching, during the late war, the old family retainer had buried the silver and they never found it. Among us kids in S. Cal. in the late 1950's the saying 'save your Confederate money, the South will rise again' was a joke, but given the $60 cost of buying these once common notes in Good today, the joke is on us.
Although there is one wish outstanding, I will put it on the shelf, but will pull it after eight weeks and fulfill that wish if it is still there. But someone did take the book with reprinted column on world coins that I put out a few months ago.
While working in a SCIF office in the 1990s, I bought a few $10 large notes for $11 each for use on money trees when a comrade retired or transferred. These common notes list at much more in this book today, which is surprising as few people try to get one from every bank in their state, or the US for that matter. They differ only by the name of the bank printed thereon. The banks deposited funds to back up the National Currency, the deposit being held in 3% treasury bonds. So they collected 3% interest and the bonds backed the notes, which had advertising value I assume.
While at SCIF and having too much money I also blew $200 on a National Gold Note, in poor condition (silked) that lists at $2500 retail in Good. I wanted it as evidence that the West remained on gold during the war. Thus what the Central Pacific RR paid the Chinese was substantial, although not entirely fair.
No index, but clearly organized.
I am surprised at the increase in the cost of the commonest CSA notes ($5 and $10 of 1864) as they were plentiful at less than $2 each when JFK was president. Jim Coffee, our family friend, then told me that in the days of McKinley he and his cousins played with a trunk full of CSA money in his grandmother's North Carolina plantation house. When Sherman's bummers were approaching, during the late war, the old family retainer had buried the silver and they never found it. Among us kids in S. Cal. in the late 1950's the saying 'save your Confederate money, the South will rise again' was a joke, but given the $60 cost of buying these once common notes in Good today, the joke is on us.
Although there is one wish outstanding, I will put it on the shelf, but will pull it after eight weeks and fulfill that wish if it is still there. But someone did take the book with reprinted column on world coins that I put out a few months ago.
While working in a SCIF office in the 1990s, I bought a few $10 large notes for $11 each for use on money trees when a comrade retired or transferred. These common notes list at much more in this book today, which is surprising as few people try to get one from every bank in their state, or the US for that matter. They differ only by the name of the bank printed thereon. The banks deposited funds to back up the National Currency, the deposit being held in 3% treasury bonds. So they collected 3% interest and the bonds backed the notes, which had advertising value I assume.
While at SCIF and having too much money I also blew $200 on a National Gold Note, in poor condition (silked) that lists at $2500 retail in Good. I wanted it as evidence that the West remained on gold during the war. Thus what the Central Pacific RR paid the Chinese was substantial, although not entirely fair.
No index, but clearly organized.
