What are your favorite seal colors ?
luckybucks
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This is partly a rhetorical question.
My favorite seal color is:
#2: Vivid Yellow Green (aka light green)
#1: Vivid Blue Green (aka transitional)
I like the vivid blue green notes best because that seal color was only used for a very short while (from mid / late November 1937 to the later third of 1939). The seals are still bright like the LGS notes, but have a "frosty bluish" hue to them, that I feel makes them pop.
Also, many of the vivid BGS stars are much tougher than the LGS stars, but do not get the same recognition.
Lastly, the $10's come in both mule and non mule format. There are no vivid BGS $5's, vivid BGS mule $20's are very hard, as are the upper denominations.
My favorite seal color is:
#2: Vivid Yellow Green (aka light green)
#1: Vivid Blue Green (aka transitional)
I like the vivid blue green notes best because that seal color was only used for a very short while (from mid / late November 1937 to the later third of 1939). The seals are still bright like the LGS notes, but have a "frosty bluish" hue to them, that I feel makes them pop.
Also, many of the vivid BGS stars are much tougher than the LGS stars, but do not get the same recognition.
Lastly, the $10's come in both mule and non mule format. There are no vivid BGS $5's, vivid BGS mule $20's are very hard, as are the upper denominations.
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A lot of it has to do with what I like to collect. Numeral seals are my top choice, even though that's not a seal color.
Jim61
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Nobody has mentioned gold.
Good one Jim. Especially the later 1928 GC's with the almost bright orange seal and serial numbers.
Nobody has mentioned gold.
Good one Jim. Especially the later 1928 GC's with the almost bright orange seal and serial numbers.
Thanks. I am dazzled by the greens you are working on, but there are enough in that arena.
Jim61
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I was offered one at the big coin show this weekend but my budget just could not stretch that far; it was/is a gorgeous note. A very nice XF.
Wish now I had taken a picture with my phone.
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Retired
My next choice is brown followed by the orange of gold certificates and not the North Africa yellow.
Collector of US Small Size currency, Atlanta FRNs, and Georgia nationals since 1977. Researcher of small size US type - seeking serial number data for all FRN star notes, Series 1928 to 1934-D. Life member SPMC.
BUT in most cases I'm fine with just one example of each different seal color.
As surely most members of the CU already know my absolutely favor seal color is - of course - the LIGHT GREEN or LIME seal color. Especially the 1934 notes are the most preferred items for my collection... I just can't get enough of them...
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