Do any of you collect CURRENCY as well?

KoinDawg

Just curious. Does only copper, silver and gold make it into your collections? How about some of the old currency notes like $20 Gold Certificate. I just bought 1953 $5 Silver certificate and $2 note because that's my birth year. I have alot of foreign currency but haven't added anything to it for a couple of years.

ChangeInHistory

I can't resist some vingettes of the obsolete/broken bank notes. I have a small collection started and they really look neat as a "scenes from pre-civil war America" set.

michael

i love full sheets of civil war era obselete fractional currency

mozeppa

i got some fracs too...they're neat...full-o-history!

Gemini

I collect Large Size Notes, Long Island National Currency and have some Colonial Notes.

coinbuf

I really like lg notes, battleship notes inparticular.

Chris

Alleyrat

I only collect coins. Something about currency doesn't like me.

50cents

Yes, I collect Atlanta star notes.

mirabela

Do any of us collect what?

Jdurg

If I come across a nice odd currency piece I'll add it to my collection, but I don't go out of my way for currency. (Though I do have a few stacks of $2 from each time they were printed starting from the 1976 year). When I heard that the $5, $10, and $20 bills were being re-designed I stashed away a copy of the old bills for posterity sake. I also hold onto star notes that I get out of circulation because it's always nice being able to tell a story to someone about what the star means.

jayboxx

I try to collect as much modern currency as I can.

michael

SmallSizedGuy

<< <i>Yes, I collect Atlanta star notes. >>



Oh no! I have competition out there! LOL! I too chase Atlanta star notes!

Coxe

I had a pretty complete set of fractional notes and some colonial currency along with my coins until they were summarily stolen 25 years ago. Fun stuff and place to go back to in the future. Too hot right now though.

BaronVonBaugh

I have a mostly complete type set of fractional currency.

fullerfun4

Besides early copper, I have also collected large notes for several years, but they are getting out of my price range.
Gary

itsnotjustme

I have a few pieces, probably what true currency collectors would call worthless junk. Numismatic equivalent of a well worn silver Washington or wheat cent. While I have some interest, my numismatic want list is plenty long!

PerryHall

I only collect US gold but a few years ago I picked up a National Gold Bank Note with the pile of gold coins portrayed on the back of the note.

BlindedByEgo

Odds 'n ends that come in along with coins.

morgannut2

I've been working on a type set of series 1864 Confederate Currency for 25 years. It's done better in many cases than my silver coins.

Tootawl

Yes. I'm working on a $1 type set and a $1 error type set. I have a complete 1976 $2 regular & star note district set.

Michigan

Yes indeed. It is a fast growing hobby and now that the slabbers have move in it is getting even more
popular. Currency collectors like to deride coin dealers who jump in with money signs dancing in their
head but not knowing anything about the field (various threads in the CU currency board section on that
subject).

Anyway, it is a lot of fun but can be very expensive especially for the most popular large size US
type notes, the Bisons, Indian Chief and Educational series have exploded in price so much over the
past 10 years that many people are priced out of those areas, even in circulated condition.

One nice thing about currency is that it is very easy to mail both domestically and overseas in an envelope
with nobody the wiser that there is anything of value inside. Sending it like a regular letter is easy.

LanLord

<-----------I like the notes with me on them

I also like the ones with buffalo (er, uh bison) and the educational notes.

pontiacinf

I never thought about collecting currency, until I met C.E. Bullowa at the NY International at the waldorf. She is the sweetest woman you could ever wish to meet, and spent more than an hour going thru some seriously killer educational series notes, and explaining the various things to look for when buying currency, etc. She sold me about 5k worth of notes that I still have this day, its the only currency I ever bought, and due to the wonderful time I had with Catherine, will never sell.

she is HANDS DOWN in my book the greatest dealer i ever met

carl

Not really but if someone gives me a foreign monitary note I'll stick it in the pile at my safe deposit box. I did however, put aside a few bills that had a secretary of state signature I think that was the only one that was fired. If not true I'll someday just spend them.

messydesk

I collect large denominations ($5000 - $10000), but I don't have any yet.

PerryHall

<< <i>I collect large denominations ($5000 - $10000), but I don't have any yet. >>

slipgate

I buy uncut sheets from the treasury once in awhile and leave them in the roll (tube) they came in. I have been trying to frame them for awhile and put them in the bar, they are great conversation pieces!

Michigan

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<< <i>I collect large denominations ($5000 - $10000), but I don't have any yet. >>

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They are out there but will cost you some big money. The $5,000 note is scarcer than the $10,000
but I think the $10,000 sells for more money most of the time.

They are often bought by wealthy non collectors who like to show them off to their friends.
The notes are quite a conversation piece.

TheRaven

I bought a book on currency last year and read thru it but have not purchased anything as of yet.....

Only things I have are a 57 $1 Silver Cert which I pulled out of circulation and a 1934 $10 note I pulled from circulation.....

Silver Cert & Gold Cert are interesting to me as well as civil war confederate money; one of these days.....

busco69

Yes I love the old notes only have about 20 of the us ones and about 50 foreign ones.

crazyhounddog

I have a few. In fact, I just won this one the other day.

Jzyskowski1

Got a binder full Here’s a few😁
First $3 note is Ukrainian

And finally some “horse blankets

Sapyx

We all collect "currency". The word "currency" is a synonym for "physical money". Coins are one form of currency; paper money is another form. A definition that is preserved on the "Continental currency" dollar coins - including a couple of mis-spellings of that word.

I do not know exactly when or how it happened, but at some time in the late 20th century, the meaning of the word "currency" shifted, and it became a synonym just for "paper money" - but only in America. Everywhere else in the English-speaking world, "currency" and "money" are still interchangeable.

I know it's not really relevant to the topic at hand, but what else are you going to do with a 16 year old necro-thread?

pointfivezero

Pretty timely 16 year old thread as I don’t normally collect currency but did just purchase these from Ben (the Coin Geek):

Tim

goodmoney4badmoney

olympicsos

I tried to do it but could never get really into it.

Floridafacelifter

I was gifted this by a patient so I guess I do now!

jfriedm56

A few older pieces of currency

silverpop

yes i collect banknotes along with coins

Weiss

60 gold Bolivares (1955)
2,006,000 paper Bolivares (2017)

jtlee321

@jfriedm56 said:
A few older pieces of currency

That $1 Educational and the 1886 Martha Dollar have me drooling!!!

asheland

Primarily Fractional currency, but a few other odd notes…

Glen2022

A little. $10 gold cert, some WWII Hawaii and North Africa notes, a couple of funny back notes. I really like the graphics of some of the earlier notes. Why can't current paper money be as nice?

jfriedm56

A Battleship

Cougar1978

I do both coins and currency. At my last show currency outsold coins. I have a large inventory of graded currency many top pop.

Smudge

I just hang onto star notes. Nothing special.

hfjacinto

Boy an oldie but goody. I have a pretty extensive collection of US and Portuguese Currency. I have a complete type set of US Fractional and Portuguese Escudo Fractional. I even ventured off into a few of the more exotic notes (like red/green backs). Even picking up an autographed US fractional. Here is an example of a red back 3rd series 25 cents.

An example of Escudo fractionals

My us type set of currency goes from Colonial>Continental> obsolete> fractional > large to small sized. But I stoped around 1966. I do have a few ($1 & $2) to modern but mostly high grade star notes.

My Portugal escudo type set includes a unique signature/ date that isn’t in any catalog.

skier07

Went broke in a casino and my pocket piece became a buy in at the poker table 25 years ago. Bought this one recently.

hfjacinto

@PerryHall said:
<< I collect large denominations ($5000 - $10000), but I don't have any yet. >>

I actually know a collector that owned a $10000 bill but when he tried to buy a $5000 he felt it was too much to ask as it cost more than the $10000.

He ended completing a full type set of $20 large notes.

Majority of us are just not in that league, some of the notes discussed are 6 figures.

golden

I started collecting currency in 1969.