Indholdsfortegnelse for June 2019 i Banknote Reporter

The long awaited Central States auction has come to an end this year. At its end, they reached nearly $34 million in sales. Among all four sections of the auction (U.S. Coins, World Coins, U.S. Currency, and World Currency), they raised $33.7 million in total. The Signature auction of U.S. Coins made up a majority of the sales resulting in nearly $19.5 million, whereas the Signature Currency auction raised nearly $4.3 million overall. As stated in the previous issue of Bank Note Reporter, one of the features of the auction was a $5,000 1934 Federal Reserve note graded About Uncirculated 55 by PMG. Its proxy bid as I wrote the article was $80,000 and was estimated to sell for about $120-150,000. With the results now in, the final sales price…

The Allen County National Bank of Scottsville, Kentucky, charter 9356, issued only $10 and $20 Series of 1902 date and plain back notes. The bank has the distinction of having issued exactly two sheets worth of 10-10-10-20 plain backs, specifically sheets 721 and 722. The bank was a minimally capitalized entity organized in 1909 having a circulation of only $6,250. It was liquidated May 12, 1921, when it was absorbed by the competing First National Bank there. There wasn’t much demand for replacement notes with such a small circulation so its 1902 date backs lasted in the Comptroller’s inventory into the 1920s ending with sheet 720. The two Series of 1902 plain back sheets arrived just before the bank closed. With a total of only 2,888 notes issued over its…

Paper Money Guaranty® (PMG®) has certified over 280 selections from the Lou Manzi Collection of United Kingdom Notes. The amazing group includes numerous rarities from the United Kingdom, many of them iconic “White Notes” from the Bank of England. Over more than three decades, Lou Manzi assembled what is likely the finest and most important collection of top-quality British currency outside of a museum. PMG certified highlights from the collection at its recent London on-site grading events, which were held at the office of NGC International UK Limited (NGC UK), the London-based affiliate of PMG. NGC UK hosts PMG on-site grading events periodically in London; the next is this summer. Spink, a global auction house founded in London in 1666, is offering about half of the PMG-certified selections from the…

Some years back I had a chance to drive through central Iowa, and I was told by several people to be sure to visit Grinnell, a town that was chock full of wonderful historic structures. I hadn’t forgotten this advice, and so on a bright, sunny day I headed to the western edge of Poweshiek County to see historic Grinnell, Iowa. Grinnell is due east of Des Moines and is easily reached off Interstate 80 at the exit for State Route 146. Grinnell sits at the junction of Route 146 and U.S. Highway 6. Grinnell’s founding seems like a historic fable. The town was founded by and named for Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, an abolitionist pastor at the First Congregational Church in Washington, D.C. After Grinnell lost his pastorate in 1853…

The majority of currency collectors among readers will be well aware of the impending International Paper Money Show. For those still catching up the show is June 7 -10 at the Sheraton Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo. Among regular IPMS attendees are Lyn Knight Auctions. This year their world paper sale is scheduled for Thursday night, June 13. At the time of writing the catalog was very much a work in progress but as of early May some spectacular items had emerged although many grades and all estimates had yet to be assigned. Just a few are reported here. All details need to be checked out in the published catalog. From the Caribbean there is a Bermuda 10 shillings of 30 September 1927(P-4). The grade is a most desirable…

Back in February the Reserve Bank of Australia announced the design details of their new, 65 x 144 mm, $20 note, the latest issue in the polymer Next Generation (Next-Gen) series. The note is scheduled to be released into general circulation in October this year. As with the existing $20 (P-59), the new note features portraits of Mary Reibey and Reverend John Flynn but both differ from those used on P-59. That of Reibey is adapted from a miniature watercolor on ivory with that of Flynn based on a 1930s photograph. Reibey arrived in Australia as a convict. She soon broke the rigidly defined social norms to earn a reputation as a successful businesswoman running shipping and trading businesses. She was also an active supporter of charities, religion and education.…

Treasury Department Bureau of Engraving and Printing Surface Division Memorandum February 15, 1934For the Assistant Director,ProductionSir: Mr. Clyde E. Gross, chief, Issue Division, Treasury Department, and also Miss Johnston of his office, called me over the telephone and stated that they had a package of national bank currency which someone had dropped into the elevator shaft and was damaged, inquiring as to whether an exchange could be made in this Bureau. I informed Mr. Gross that he could return the currency and that I would take it up with your office as to what disposition should be made of the mutilated work. Yesterday, he sent back 378 sheets, 6 subjects, $10 notes, for the First National Bank of Lawrenceville, Georgia, Charter No. 11936, numbered from A1 to A2268. At your…

The title of this 112 x 75mm. card is Canadian Concentration Camp, Witley, and it is dated June 1, 1919. A number of aspects of this piece puzzled me for a long time. Where were any Canadian concentration camps set up right after the end of World War I? After some time had gone by, I finally went to the Internet, not at all expecting what I found there. The first fact that confronted me was that Witley was a military camp in England set up for Canadian soldiers. During the war, Canada had sent 60,000 soldiers, 15,000 planes and pilots, and 8,000 navy recruits to England. There was a strong pro-British feeling in Canada at the time, and this large contingent of military men and equipment was shipped over…

Tucked away in Stack’s-Bowers’ catalog of their March Hong Kong world paper sale was a seldom seen WWII Japanese 50 kopeks. It had been produced for Japan’s intended occupation of territories in the eastern Soviet Union c. 1939-1940 (P-M20; SB-2302). Four other denominations were printed. For JIM collectors all these notes are pearls of great price. The face designs are specific for their intended use in Russia but the backs are those used on other JIM issues either in Malaya or Oceania. Each carries the name of the issuing authority in Russian: ››››››››››››› ›››››››› ››››››››››››› [Imperial Japanese Government]. In the lower border is Japanese text that translates as ‘The Government of Great Imperial Japan’. The accompanying small circular seal is that of the Ministry of Finance. The few examples to…

On behalf of the American Numismatic Association (ANA – www.money.org), ANA volunteers John and Nancy Wilson, want to thank the Central States Numismatic Society (CSNS - www.centralstates.info) for providing a table for the American Numismatic Association at your 80th Anniversary Convention in Schaumburg, IL, on April 24 – 27, 2019. [From John and Nancy Wilson] We were assisted at the table by ANA staff members Jennifer Ackerman and Logan Curtis who were there to solicit dealers for tables at the future ANA World’s Fair of Money (WFOM) and National Money Show (NMS) conventions. They were able to sign up numerous dealers for the next two conventions. Also attending from ANA were the Executive Director Km Kiick and Education Director Rod Gillis. We were able to sign up or renew over…