PTB accumulated quite a collection of paper bills. To the left are shown some clips of portions of those from the U.S. - they include some beautiful pastoral scenes of rural early American life. In addition, there are bills from Europe and Asia in the collection.
The bills were originally kept in 14 envelopes, and while the contents of some envelopes were uniform (e.g., all "inflation currency" bills were in a brown envelope labeled "Rodman & Renshaw"), other envelopes were not of such uinform content. In October, 2013, I reorganized the bills into 8 categories (US legal tender, fractional/postal, colonial, obsolete, invasion, counterfit & confederate, foreign, and inflation). The contents of the 8 NEW ENVELOPES are shown below. To see the scanned images ordered according to the 14 original envelopes, click here.
The scanned images can be viewed at three different levels of resolution. The links below will open pages with low resolution images. At the top of each page is a link to high resolution images. Once these open (which can take a while), you can turn on the zoom feature and see them at the highest resolutuion.
The links below also include results of eBay auctions.
| 1. U.S. legal tender
| | 1864 Compound interest treasury note, Educational series $1, Lewis & Clark $10, Jackson $5 and $20, Bank of Manchester Michigan $3, Michael Hillegas $10, gold certificates $5 $10 $20 and $50.
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4. Obsolete currency.
| | Somerset & Worcester, Adrian Insurance, Canal Bank New Orleans. This group includes many of the most beautiful engravings.
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