Money Shot

Good morning Athena. I checked this thread, typed that line, hit submit, and poof you were there too. Very strange hmmmm

This is a great thread, when I get home I'm gonna try and post a few francs.

Thank you. The $10 came directly from a bank. My friends sister-in-law works there. I have several error notes, here is another example of an error. This is a $100 offset print error. I think the size on this one is ok since it has extra 'defacing' ink showing...

Yeah, that's a $500... here's a full shot (almost full shot, see below). Money sure was pretty back then... I'll post a close up of my 1899 $1. The threads in that bill look like sewing threads...

Edit: Resized per this information from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing...
http://www.moneyfactor​y.gov/document.cfm/18/​117
Reproduction of Currency

Authority: 18 UNITED STATES CODE; 504: Treasury Directive Number 15-56 FR 48539 (September 15,1993) 411.1 Color illustrations authorized.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 25 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, authority is hereby given for the printing, publishing or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates or items for such printing or publication, of color illustrations of U.S. currency provided that:

1. The illustration must be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated;
2. The illustration must be one sided; and
3. All negatives, plates, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof shall be destroyed and or deleted or erased after their final use in accordance with this section.

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Thread detail in the 1899 $1 and a close up of the eagle...
It looks like they just cut up sewing threads and dumped them in the mix when they were making the paper for the currency...

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high tech anti-counterfeit - sewing threads.

Ya know, several countries are using plastic to make their "paper" money now. Even Malaysia has a bill with a see thru window in it. Cool stuff.

I have a really cool bill from France with the plastic window in it as well as a double sided "little prince" drawing. I'll have to photograph it tonight.

Would love to see your French francs 98photo.

Here's a messed up state quarter... not a very good shot, it's in one of those cardboard and plastic holders and somehow the heads side came up in a different tint... so we'll call this... how not to photograph a coin...

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That is a riot DMDX. For some reason it reminds me of those machines you can put a penny in to squash it up. When I was a kid, we used to put pennies on the railroad tracks to squash them. Probably illegal.