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Look What My Wife Found In An Old Book!

PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 24, 2017 10:36AM in U.S. Coin Forum

I know its currency, however, I just had to share.
I don't know anything about the book it was in, she was taking our Grandkids home, handed it to me and said, "Look what I just found in an old book." (will update that later)
Not my pic, representative of the condition, probably worth $40.00 or so.
Much more as a keepsake!
Ooops, It's an 1899, named the 'The Porthole Note' as it appears as though G.W. is looking out an porthole.

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  • mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Most Excellent

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,007 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice find!

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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good find.

  • bronzematbronzemat Posts: 2,646 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Neat find, congrats

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  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great! That's how I got started. Found a Capped Bust dime in one of Grandpa's old books. I was 6-7 years old. That dime really got my attention. I was...HOOKED!

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,174 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Anyone ever found anything in an "old" book that the wished that they hadn't found?

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,490 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great find! Its condition serves as a reminder that there was a time when US paper money was allowed to remain in circulation for considerably longer than is the case today.

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2, 2017 5:20PM

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  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice :#

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  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 3,031 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's probably worth about the same amount of money today as the two silver dollars for which it could have been redeemed, unless, of course, they were BU CCs.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BAJJERFAN said:
    Anyone ever found anything in an "old" book that the wished that they hadn't found?

    Yes.

  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    @sellitstore said:
    It's probably worth about the same amount of money today as the two silver dollars for which it could have been redeemed, unless, of course, they were BU CCs.

    My wife arrived home, wanted a better look at it.
    I told her the EXCACT same thing!!!!!

  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭

    You just gave me an appreciation for old Books.

  • JcldJcld Posts: 449 ✭✭✭

    Can you post a pic of the backside of this beauty?

  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 24, 2017 12:31PM

    I will, next time I go outside.
    As stated in my first post, image was from a web page, pics coming soon.
    The book was printed in 1907.
    She purchased the book at a thrift store, 30 some years ago.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,671 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fantastic!


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  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    I think I shall claim 'eminent domain' and forbid its sale! (wish me luck, told her its not very $$)
    I really think, as per my first post, the note, and the book in which it was found should remain in the family and passed down.

  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is pretty damned cool. Congrats.
    Lance.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great find.

    I always flip through old books. They were a favorite place for hiding things.

  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    @lkeigwin , Thank You, it sure is.
    Really got her attention when I'd informed that it would be close to $3K had it been Perfect!
    I want her to save the book and note for our Grand Daughter she is six, carefully handles the coins I give her, saves them in very nice cigar boxes, YN I hope!

  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,040 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember when the McGuffey readers weren't considered THAT old.

  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    Did some research, surprisingly they are still being published.

  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,270 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fun stuff. Nice find.

    Larry

  • Jackthecat1Jackthecat1 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭

    That kind of find would make my day.

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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,270 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was at an estate auction years ago. There were several hundred books. Folks were finding old notes in the books. Never saw books sell for so much.

    Larry

  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,746 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have two notes like this that I have framed and hanging on the wall. They were given to me by my grandparents in the 1970s and they were found inside a book in the belongings of my great-grandmother. Neither has much monetary value, but I attempt to educate my daughters about history and family with the notes.

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  • AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool!

  • KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭✭

    That's really cool!

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  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,488 ✭✭✭✭

    Makes me want to read more books!! ;)

  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, 1899 obviously :open_mouth:

    @gonzer said:
    I remember when the McGuffey readers weren't considered THAT old.

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  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way Cool and even cooler that it took 30 years to find...who knows, if she'd found it long ago maybe it would have been gone by now...Cool that your keeping it safe, just like whoever initially placed it there ;)

  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭

    That's really cool. As somebody who buys and works in estate sales I have always found "book Finds" to be most satisfying.
    Seldom Items of big value but neat history to maybe ponder on.

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice find :smile:

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  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Likely used as a page marker. A book someone started to read but didn't finish. A book no-one else read since because someone somewhere always had it packed away.

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,426 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 25, 2017 3:12AM

    Cool Deuce!

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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice.

    Years ago I bought an old 'Blue Book' by Yeoman.
    When I got it home I found a Canadian fractional note and a US fractional note.
    Each worth more than the $1 that I paid for the book.
    I always look in old book, just for fun

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  • Peace_dollar88Peace_dollar88 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome find! Cool story as well!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow... Great find... that would make my day, week and month.... Now I will go to estate sales and check all the books.... ;) When I lived in Seattle, my neighbor bought some old books at a yard sale...His wife opened one and found $5... they started checking and ended up with $57....No old notes though....Cheers, RickO

  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had an uncirculated 1890's US dollar note that had been stored in a book.

    The note was so brittle that it crumpled when I tried to scan it on a computer scanner.

    I believe that the old book's acidic paper damaged the note.

    :)

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A few years ago at a church yard sale in my hometown someone bought a big fat scrapbook sort of thing and found a Civil War Medal of Honor.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool find! That would certainly have made my day. :)

  • No HeadlightsNo Headlights Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never find that reading on a Kindle. Congratulations

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What you have found there is quite obvious, it's a bookmark!!!!

  • PipestonePetePipestonePete Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PRECIOUSMENTAL said:
    I know its currency, however, I just had to share.
    I don't know anything about the book it was in, she was taking our Grandkids home, handed it to me and said, "Look what I just found in an old book." (will update that later)
    Not my pic, representative of the condition, probably worth $40.00 or so.
    Much more as a keepsake!
    Ooops, It's an 1899, named the 'The Porthole Note' as it appears as though G.W. is looking out an porthole.

    Great find. But, actually, the 1923 $5 Silver Certificate is known as the "Porthole Note".

  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the info.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Onastone said:
    it's a bookmark!!!!

    I think you meant BUCKmark.

  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,265 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Might not be worth big $$$$ but I sure imagine the excitement when discovering something like that!

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