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I know, I know, it’s rough. Hell, it’s damn near torn in half. I probably paid too much, but to be honest I couldn’t care. I like it a lot.

I won this on an auction recently, thought yall would think this is pretty cool

I got this peace dollar at a coin show in Colorado, and had it mailed to me recently. I’m pretty proud of it!

I got this at an LCS for $95, just because I thought it looked cool. I don’t really care if it’s not even worth that, I’m happy with what I paid for it. I have not done any research on it. What’s something like this even worth?

This is all part of my collection, and I’m quite proud of it. I have a small collection of NY and SC obsoletes, but NC is my main state to collect. I’m quite proud of this!

I paid $60 for this $7 bill from NC along side a bunch of US notes in a lot at a flee market in Georgia a few years ago, and I just now dug it up again. Is it worth what I paid for it?

I got these for $35 at a LCS, I mainly got it for the 25c. Apologies for bad pictures

These are two of about fifteen known $10 proofs from the State Bank of South Carolina, printed about 1850 or so.

Part of my small, but growing NC collection! The 1882 $10 DB is unique, and the rest are all also quite rare. The $5 BB is a 1 of 4, and the 1882 $50 DB is a 1 of 7 for the entirety of NC. I’m pretty proud of my collection! Thoughts?

I paid $40 for this 1861 Bank of New York $1 because it was part of a major lot. I sent the whole lot off to be graded, and this came back a VF35 without notes from PMG. I can’t find any auction records of it, what’s it worth?

PS sorry this is a relatively old pic

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you, a 170-year-old Numismatic mystery. All of these notes have a few things in common.
The first one being that they have to do with both the Bank of Cape Fear and the Moravian Church in Salem, NC (Now Winston-Salem).
The banknotes from the Bank of Cape Fear all have small brown crosses stamped on, which has led to an investigation by myself and a few other collectors in the bank, of which very little has turned up. The bank shut down in 1868, and nearly everything documenting these notes from that time is completely gone. However, I have managed to come up with a few theories as to why the crosses are on there.

Theory One: They’re anti-counterfeiting measures. Counterfeiting was incredibly rampant at the time, and since the church had influence the bank didn’t, it was possible some notes went directly to the church and stamped to prove they were authentic.

Theory Two: They are proof of ownership. These notes very well could’ve been stamped to try and prevent theft, as most likely finding one that was stamped in circulation meant it was church property and should be returned.

Theory Three: They are part of a secret code. This one’s a bit far fetched, but across the very few known cross-notes, there are about a half a dozen different variations of crosses. They don’t have any correlation with denomination or date, which has led me to at one point believe they were a form of communication, or to show a specific member stamped it.

What are your guys’ thoughts?

I cleaned out a friend of mine’s storage unit, and these were inside a small safe that was unlocked, but closed. Took these to a local coin shop, and I think they lowballed me. What are they worth?

Major General Mansfield Lovell was assigned to replace Major General David Twiggs on October 7, 1861 in the city of New Orleans.

In 1862, when Union ships bombarded the city, Lovell made the somewhat controversial decision to pull his already dwindling troops out of the city, and surrendered the city over to Union forces on April 28, 1862.

Due to his decisions both at New Orleans and later the Second Battle of Corinth, he was not given any more assignments for the remainder of the civil war.

Lovell died in June 1884, in New York.

I posted this on r/papermoney about a month ago, and I got a lot of suggestions as to what it was. In fact, some of them were pretty close. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a proof-of-concept potential counterfeit plate of a for the Bank of Wilmington. I did a LOT of digging and found an unused engravers proof from 1848 from an obscure banknote Co. in New York of a bond for the Bank of Wilmington. And wouldn’t you know it, it had this design on it front and square. Right down to the dotted indent design. There was of course other elements, but this was the main feature. So, I can say with 99% certainty that this is part of a proof for an unused bond certificate for the bank. Pretty neat if you ask me