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Selling Solidity: Advertising Deposit Guaranties on State Bank Checks in the Early 20th Century

Submitted by Loren Gatch on
Selling Solidity: Advertising Deposit Guaranties on State Bank Checks in the Early 20th Century
Introduction

Prior to the establishment of federal deposit insurance in 1933, a number of states experimented with their own deposit guaranty plans that sought to prevent bank runs.

My 2017 Census on Web-Press Overprint Errors

Submitted by Vernon Peterson on

Since purchasing my first Overprint on Back error Web-Press note back in 2002, and shortly thereafter learning that the Web Press Series turned out being a 4 1/2 year failed experiment that ended some 6 years earlier, you may say I was bitten by the Web bug for both the Varieties and Errors.

With Coin World being my only source for knowledge when it came to Web Notes, I soon realized that I needed to seek out additional information on Webs...

News and Updates from the Small Size World

Submitted by Scott Lindquist on

Hello All in 2015.

The market has been quite robust this past couple of years. Especially so for the premium rarities in high grades or even some notes we considered ‘common’ selling for 10 times what they would have sold for in the run-up to the last small-size, market peak, April of 2008. Of course the more generic material that is always readily available remains so and at prices similar to 10 years ago. The strengthening economy has seen an uptick in this market as well as the “program” buyers have started sucking more material up for the non-numismatic marketplace.