Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Old Money to Play With

Thought I would show you a piece of what I get to photograph occasionally at work.
This is an authentic Republic of Texas bank note for $50.
We've gotten quite a few ROT notes as well as confederate notes.  Very interesting pieces.  They are all hermetically sealed now by a grading company so they will not disintegrate over time.
Lovely pieces of history!

4 comments:

Nicola said...

Fellow Texan here....from Austin. Love your blog. Interesting picture I have never seen any! Thanks for posting.

Nicola
www.allandale-cross-stitching.blogspot.com

Lord Wellbourne said...

I'd never seen ROT currency before! Fascinating. It must be great fun to handle treasures such as this.

Recycled Cottage & Garden said...

yeah, too bad I can't afford one

Amy said...

Very cool. Love it.


I hope that my small brush with the edge of the hurricane winds will be the only time. LOL I can wish can't I?? Doesn't it count that it was blowing at 50 MPH??

Have a wonderful day.

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