OT - Metallic Paper Pirate Ships

tbirde56

Just an odd couple of items I picked up. Opinions?
Gold and silver embossed foil, undated (1988). From a set of 30 different that originally sold for $1155 together.
They're listed under East Caribbean States in the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money.

spinaker2000

those are really neat!! A must for the ship collector.

cacheman

arrrhhhh matey, day shiver me timbers day do....arrrhhhh....

oldshep

Egad - I love those ships!!!!!!!!
Shep

theboz11

I Have 3 complete sets if somebody want one,,each note is a 1/10 oz of 24 kt gold embossed with silver over the ships. They are quite a collection.

1jester

Just wait till Shipcoin and Newbie see this!!!

oldshep

How much do those sets go for???
Shep

tbirde56

> ...each note is a 1/10 oz of 24 kt gold embossed with silver over the ships

So at $440/oz. each note is worth $44 in gold bullion in addition to whatever silver is there? Cool!

Shipcoin

<Just wait till Shipcoin and Newbie see this!!!> Wow, Brad it is real masterpiece --never heard or saw it before

theboz11

It will take me a day or so, but I will scan in all 30 pieces if you want

tbirde56

Any idea how many sets were issued?
Pictures would be great if you find the time, Boz!

Interesting that when I posted this on the 'U.S. & World' Paper Money Forum the only two comments in reply were:

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'Now where did I leave my Franklin Mint set?'

If it's not U.S. oriented it's just play money to them, it seems. And I thought the U.S. Coin Forum was bad!

Askari

They are very lovely indeed!! A full set is usually hard to come by as there weren't all that many made. I don't know what they're going for nowadays, but several years ago I saw one go for something like $3000.

tbirde56

I'm seeing that there are $30 and $50 notes as well as the $100 notes. Are they different sizes/weights?
My '98 ('96) edition of the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money lists a similar undated 1983 set of 12 $30 notes featuring flowers and animals as well as the 1988 set of 30 $100 notes. Does anyone else have a later catalog with more info?

Some info on them I found:

The set is called: The Saga of Treasure Ships & Pirates. The $100 notes depict famous Pirate Treasure Ships and are the official legal tender of Antiqua and Barbuda. Each Banknote mirrors a finely detailed image of the ships in .999 fine Silver against a brilliant background of 23 karat Gold Leaf. Alan D'Estrehan's contributed a total of 19 magnificent tall ship images for the Banknotes. It was his last original work. Award winning marine artist Mark Myers painted the remaining 21 images that completes the Thirty Gold & Silver Banknotes. Treasures are displayed in a hardbound display book. Thirty beautiful and art like individual real silver and real gold leaf covered banknotes, each with descriptions of the silver and gold $100 bills. A certificate of origin and authenticity. This set was limited to 20,000 sets. Each has official signatures and serial number.

theboz11

Just did some quick scans ,Hope this is ok.you can copy to your photo editor and enlarge, I scanned at 200.


The complete set

Edit to add,,this set is only $100's and I have not seen the others and very rarely these,

Shipcoin

Great work you did, Dan! Thanks you so much!! It will take me a time to see them all..... Really very attractive pieces.

tbirde56

Great pics! My two are #16 & #18.

(Earlier post edited).

theboz11

<< <i>I'm seeing that there are $30 and $50 notes as well as the $100 notes. Are they different sizes/weights?
My '98 ('96) edition of the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money lists a similar undated 1983 set of 12 $30 notes featuring flowers and animals as well as the 1988 set of 30 $100 notes. Does anyone else have a later catalog with more info?

Some info on them I found:

The set is called: The Saga of Treasure Ships & Pirates. The $100 notes depict famous Pirate Treasure Ships and are the official legal tender of Antiqua and Barbuda. Each Banknote mirrors a finely detailed image of the ships in .999 fine Silver against a brilliant background of 23 karat Gold Leaf. Alan D'Estrehan's contributed a total of 19 magnificent tall ship images for the Banknotes. It was his last original work. Award winning marine artist Mark Myers painted the remaining 21 images that completes the Thirty Gold & Silver Banknotes. Treasures are displayed in a hardbound display book. Thirty beautiful and art like individual real silver and real gold leaf covered banknotes, each with descriptions of the silver and gold $100 bills. A certificate of origin and authenticity. This set was limited to 20,000 sets. Each has official signatures and serial number. >>



When you bought a complete set you also received a signed/ numbered lithograph done by the artist. Nice bonus. If I remember correctly they were only going to make 20,000 of each note,,quite a few were sold as individual and not as part of sets, so the number of complete sets is much lower.

The art that I received was from By Mark Myers and numberd 17/950 and 10/10 the other my sister has now.