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What's this worth?

I know it's paper I have the past solds just want opinions and it's historical value?
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977
    No clue to the value, but it rates real high on FatMan's coolness scale.image
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting note about that note.

    The leaf on the back was put there in an effort to thwart counterfeiting. It is an impression of an actual leaf plucked from a plant prior to the notes printing. Benjamin Franklin pioneered this process for the individual natural leafs uniqueness and difficulty in reproducing with the technology available to counterfeiters of the time. This method was one of the more successful methods used in early America for anti-counterfeiting paper money.

    That's an actual leaf from 1776 that Benjamin Franklin most likely held in his very hands.
  • Hmmmm...seems like I saw something like that years ago in a Reader's Digest add.....but don't know....could be real....
  • jayboxxjayboxx Posts: 1,613 ✭✭
    I have seen one of those before and I can't remember where, lot of help huh?
  • Claidiator gets the Gold star for now with some interesting facts, there's others?
  • xbobxbob Posts: 1,979
    You might want to try posting it in the U.S. currency forum for a better chance at getting at value.

    I enjoyed seeing though. Cool.
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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I posted a link in the currency forum. The paper guys will find it...won't be long.
  • Friedberg (17th Edition) lists it as NJ-179, with values of $45 fine, $100 VF and $200 in UNC. Nothing earth shattering or rare, but a very cool note.
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  • Already know within a range from $200-$400 just thought it would be a cool diversion into paper research for a side topic.image
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Id be interested in what the paper guys think it grades out as?
  • Can we crose "mojinate" with those guys?
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    it's ok...i was a currency guy for a few months...I'll be your buffer image
  • Cool, I'm waiting for tomorrow.........it would be my first paper and has significance which no one has found yet.........
  • cladiator,
    what kind of leaf is it?
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,258 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>cladiator,
    what kind of leaf is it? >>



    Beats me. An old one?
  • Still missing an important factor..........
  • tobacco maybe?
  • Nope, the clue is on the front.
  • Maybe a civics lesson is in order?
  • aright, it's starting to look like a big tight bud
    what is it?
  • JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭
    It could be sage, but then the note is much smaller than appears here...
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  • Neat Note. It's even got my name on it. image (At least I think the first name on it is Rob Smith, I could be wrong image)
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  • Isn't the second signer "Hart" also a signer of the Declaration of Independence?
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  • John Hart signed the Declaration of Independence representing New Jersey !!!!!

    I bet that adds to the value a tad image
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  • wam98wam98 Posts: 2,685
    Looks like a tobacco leaf. image
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  • OldBucksOldBucks Posts: 16 ✭✭✭
    A John Hart NJ...without the tape should go for around $150. I also have a 12s note but his signature is more faded...he was the only signer not to use a dark ink on all the notes he signed.

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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,063 ✭✭✭
    Can you Convert that to Euros??

    DarkSide=Blech!

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  • << <i>Looks like a tobacco leaf. image >>







    I would guess..elm. A great piece of history regardless of value !!


  • << <i>That's an actual leaf from 1776 that Benjamin Franklin most likely held in his very hands. >>


    Not likely. Franklin developed the process but he wasn't the only one to use it, and considering neither he nor his print shop printed the note and it was printed in NJ while Franklin was in PA.
  • It went for $483.00

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