How do we know that this is college currency?

sellitstore

Looks like it might be worthless play money.

What do you think?

DepressionscripGuy

Not sure... most play money - yet another area I collect - is usually smaller than regular currency. Not always, but usually. I wonder if anyone at PCGS looked through the college currency book or just took the submitter's word for it?

techwriter

Believe I would pass on it, just nothing to help identify.

Berny

Flipping through the Schingoethe's 1993 book on College Currency, I could not find this example. The author's tend to show less than 10% of the backs. However, this one seems ornate enough such that they most likely would have shown the back.



They have a large section on what they call Mavericks, which have little to no information on the note to determine the college or location. Could this actually be a uniface front note without a back. It seems strange that PCGS would label it as a back. Is it a misprint or a proof?



Also, PCGS labels it as $50. It could be 50 cents or even a foreign denomination?

lettow

From the perforations on the left side I suspect this was originally a training aid that was in the back of a business school textbook and torn out for use in class assignments. I have seen a couple types like that over the years but not this variety.

Probably cost more to grade than it is worth.

sellitstore

I noticed the perforations, too, and was reminded of generic practice currency sets, but it seems that play money could also be manufactured this way.




Maybe the books along the bottom suggest college currency?