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 Thursday, May 08, 2008
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, 14th edition Now Available !
Posted by george
I have just received my copies from the printer of the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, 14th edition. So your distributor should have a stock at an upcoming show, or you can order on-line at www.krausebooks.com.
It is 1085 pages plus an advertising section. An indexed DVD of the book is included in a bound-in holder onto the inside back cover (you can enlarge the pages up to 300% on a computer screen). A first for the World Paper Money book series.
It has a retail price of $55.00 USD.
For those who have been unhappy with the photo quality in the past few editions, you should notice a great improvement as this 14th edition has been completely digitally producted, thus ending the combination use of the old paste-up/velox technology combined with scaned images which were the cause of fuzzy images in the recent past.
For those who have been confused why we have listed North and South Korea under Korea, North and Korea, South, we have now listed those counties under N and S respectively. Next year we will list Northern Ireland under N, and also atempt to split Samoa and Western Samoa successfully. If you have any concerns where something is, please consult either the country or issuer index in the front of the book.
The note descriptions - colors, types, watermark and printer information has been expanded to full descriptions in all records. A help for identification, and one that will become necessary in the on-line version soon to appear on http://www.numismaster.com/
I have just been informed that the DVD will be available seperately, at a list price of about $45.00.
As always I welcome helpful suggestions for improvements.
George
KP News | Paper Money Values
5/8/2008 3:56:05 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Cuhaj to speak before the IBNS - Milwaukee group May 10
Posted by george
I'll be delivering a slide illustrated talk (and show and tell items) on NYC Transportation Tickets (1830-1950) during the May 10th Meeting of the Milwaukee Chapter of the International Bank Note Society.
The Meetings are held at a public library near the entrance to Cardinal Stritch College. Just south of Good Hope Road.
The meetings usually last from 1-4. With time set aside for trading, the talk, club business and show and tell.
Admission is free.
George
5/2/2008 1:00:21 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Israel relases first polymer note, and a 60th anniversary commemorative
Posted by george
This past month the Bank of Israel has realased a 20 New Sheqalim in polymer plastic. It is the same design as the current paper issue which has been in use since 1998, featuring Moshe Sharett.
The polymer plastic issue has a clear window design of a Star of David.
The 60th Anniversary commemorative has a print run of 1,800,000. The difference is a line of Hebrew text printed in red on the back of the note. I have been told by our contributor that they are initially only being distributed via ATM machines.
George
Bank Note Technologies | Paper Money Values
4/29/2008 11:06:08 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, April 28, 2008
What is new with the 2009 editions of the Standard Catalog of World Coins
Posted by george
Greetings!
I've just returned from the Chicago International Coin Fair, held in Rosemont, Il.
I was very pleased at the activity during the auctions, on the bourse floor and with the attendance at various club meetings held during the event.
Stack's presented a one session sale on the Thursday evening at the hotel next door to the show hotel. It featured a great selection of Bristish gold and silver, especially issues of Charles I. Ponterio & Associates held a two session sale Friday and Saturday nights featuring coins and bank notes of the world, with a special selection of Central and South America.
The bourse was bussing at dealer set-up, and then for the early preview session. Many more Europeans and Asians were in attendance buying. Many of the preview attendies participated thru Sunday.
Public hours of Friday were very busy, as were Saturday buyers.
I was pleased by the level of activity at the show, and as to some of the questions I was able to answer about the books, namely:
That the Standard Catalogs volumes to be published in 2008 - 36th edition of the 20th Century World Coins book, 3rd edition of the 2001-present book, and 17th Century book, in addtion to 2009 U.S. Coin Digest, and the World Paper Money editions of Modern Issues and General Issues all will include a DVD of the book, in pdf format, bound into the back inside of the back cover!
George
4/28/2008 10:49:27 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Stack's to hold sales during CICF
Posted by george
For the first time in a number of years, Stacks will hold a sale on April 24th, in Rosemont, Ill, during the Chicago International Coin Fair. Starting at 4 PM at the Doubletree Hotel.
The sale is presented in two catalogs. The first is the collection of Michael S. Tallent, and includes 293 lots of spectacular English hammered gold sovereigns, early silver crowns, pounds and unites, as well as a large grouping of Charles I coinage and civil war issues.
The collection continues with a nice selection of German multiple thalers.
The second part of the sale is presented as the Alicia and Sid Belzberg Collection. It is comprised of 126 lots of historic Polish, Danzig and Russian material, and then is followed by a selection of Ancient and World Coins, Medals and Decorations. Highlights include two Russian family rubles, several five and ten ducat pieces, in addition to a nice group of Polish patterns.
George
World Coin Stuff
4/22/2008 9:16:53 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Cuhaj to attend Chicago International Coin Fair !
Posted by george
This Thursday thru Sunday, I will be attending the Chicago International Coin Fair (CICF) held at the Crown Plaza Hotel, River Road, Rosemont, Ill.
Thursday is premium day, and public hours will be on Friday and Saturday, with a slew of club meetings scheduled for Saturday.
I will be pleased to meet with blog readers to talk about the catalogs.
Sunday hours are short, 10-1, so plan on the other days for best opportunities.
George
4/21/2008 12:37:52 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
The 21/21 Campaign for Brooklyn Tech, Reach with me...
Posted by george
Okay, perhaps some of you thought it humorous when in my last posting I wrote about being in NYC recently for various charitable works.
 The real event was the activities focused around the Brooklyn Tech Foundatation, an organization on which I served on the board of, and was a officer in prior to 1994 and my relocation to the midwest. I remain active as their archivist. As such, I write articles for the newsletters, collect information and put together a display of school artifacts - photos and stuff in the school's 3rd floor gallery for the homecoming weekend visitors.
However, this year, we in the foundation lead off the weekend with the anouncement of the 21/21 Campaign for Brooklyn Tech - to raise 21 million dollars for the 21st century!
Tech alumni took the lead ten years ago when we raised 14 million on a 10 million dollar goal during the school's 75th anniversary. Now it is time to do more!
 Sustaining Excellence is the theme, and the three goals for the campaign will focus on Curriculum and Facilities Enhancement, Faculty Support and Developemnt and a Tranformational Learning Experience for the students.
It is a very unique situation for the alumni of a public high school to show such unwavering support for their school, but the school was a special experience for most of the students who have attended, and remains a special place for the current students.
Just in case you wanted some stats: the school "plant" is 8 floors taking up a half city block, the current building built in 1930-1933 totals 660,000 square feet. The auditorium has 3,022 seats. Over 100 class rooms and labs. Current student body is just over 4,000.
George
4/19/2008 12:06:51 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Behind the scene at the ANS move.
Posted by george
Moving the ANS, something that should be easier each time, eh?
I was in NYC ten days ago and spent the better part of the week in charitable works.
For a half-day I visited with Joe Ciccone, the ANS archivist who asked me to come in and identify "people and event" photos in the ANS collection from the 1978-1988 era which covered my main years of activity - first as their photo clerk and later as their computer systems operator. Although in those later days I was the computer guy, I would get to photograph many of the public meetings of the day.
So, it was fun to see folks still active (but looking younger and thinner), or images of folks who have moved on to that great beyond.
Yes, I could name names, and not to disapoint, I will - William F. Spengler, Henry Grunthal, Colin Kraay, Marcel Jovine, Margaret Thompson, Pierre Bastian, R. Henry Norweb, Harry Bass, Jr., Harry Fowler, Norman Stack, Tony Hackens, Charles Hersh, William B. Warden, Jr., George Ewing, Jr., Robert Schonwalter, Edward Janus, Raphael Sollman.
 Yes - a photo of George probably taken in the first year at the ANS's computer, 1982, doing data entry of coins from the Greek Collection. The terminal is one of three "dumb" terminals, and was hard wired into the ANS's Prime Computer system, which at the time sported some 300 MB of storage! (It was in a temperture controlled room, and there were 12 levels and 24 disc reading heads *(any of which could (and did) catch a speck of dust and crash the system). The 300 MBs took up 10 reals of 1/2 inch tape (and three hours) to do the system wide back-up).
But then there were the photos of the people behind the scenes at the ANS who made the place go each day - guards and staff (not all of whom have left this world): Photographers: E. Timothy Hansen, Frank Deak, Charles Badal, Michael DiBiase, Guards: Willie and Ed Owens, James Hayes; Staff: Rose Mangini, Florence Donnelly, Leslie Elam, JoAnne McCool, Orin Joseph, Marie Martin, Amelia Zalchman, William Metcalf, Michael Bates, Richard Doty, Persey Coronis, Marlene Rock, Lori Rubens, Tatyiana Feinberg, Sally Fried, Nancy Waggoner, Rose Chan Houston and plenty of others - John, Garfield, Oriestes, Margaret, Linda.
It was fun to see photos of the demolition of the 1958 west hall and installation of the 1983 exhibit - World of Coins into that space (I helped the exhibit design company place the coins, and was the first to break a key in the case locks on the opening day, after placing the last coin - a gold Maple Leaf!. The photos of those attending the parties and talks during the 125th Anniversary festivities were also nice to review.
The ANS needed the people identified, so, I gave it my best shot, and they will have some names to go with hundreds of faces, and perhaps you will someday see the images used in an article or on the website.
By the time I was in the city to visit, the ANS duplicate book sale had ended, and that main banking floor was filled with wheeled carts ready to move out much of the library to their new location. The collection to follow.
George
4/18/2008 2:26:20 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Behind the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, the bicentennial of four American Diocese.
Posted by george
Created in 1789, the Diocese of Baltimore had jurisdiction for the recently independent United States. It was in 1808, that the Baltimore was raised to an Archdiocese, and the Diocese of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and the first inland diocese located at Bardstown (KY) were formed. (Bardstown never took off as a financial center like the others and that area is now part of the Louisville Diocese).
This is one of the reasons that this papal visit is happening now. April was the time that the new dioceses were created, and celebrations are taking place in those locations throughout the last year. A visit to Boston was avoided due to the major clergy scandals of the last two decades, and so a large group of Bostonians and Philadelphians have been both invited to the Yankee Stadium or Washington D.C. events.
Medals played a part in three of the four centennials. 1908 saw Boston Centennial medal with a large portrait of the recently appointed Archbishop William O'Connell. The reverse featrues a commemorative legend and the Archbishop's coat-of-arms. The sculptor was by Bela Lyon Pratt, the designer of the then recently released Indian head $2-1/2 and $5 Gold coins (minted between 1908-1929).
New York's centennial medal obverse featrues Archbishop Farlery in the center of portraits of the previous Archbishops. It was designed by J. E. Roine. The reverse features St. Patrick's Cathedral, with additional renderings of original cathedral, and first church in NYC. Philadelphia's entry was a rather plan and less imaginative medallic commemorative - a large bishop's mitre within a wreath, with a reverse of a scroll with the names of the previous bishops. Bardstown is only commemorated much later on a small key chain fob.
In looking over the selection of Papal Visit trinkets available, there are plenty of holy cards, rosaries, postcards and bumper stickers, in addition to hats, t-shirts, and magnets, but only one die struck “medal” type item is available, and that is of a plain design - as it was translated from a great graphic made as a logo for the visit, but as with many good graphics, it does not translate well into sculpture.
Such is the case of modern medallic commemoratives in America.
George
4/16/2008 9:12:40 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tommy Holmes, 91. Major League Pitcher, but first he lead Brooklyn Tech to a City Championship!
Posted by george
Tommy Holmes died earlier this week at the age of 91. In 1935 he was quite responsible for leading the Brooklyn Technical High School baseball team to the City Championships. During his time at Tech, he also pitched a no-hitter.
Yes, he would become well known as the Milwaukee Braves pitcher, and in the 1951-52 seasons their manager. He ended his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From 1973 to 2002 he was a community relations member for the New York Mets.
George
4/15/2008 6:36:44 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Great Britain to release new circulating designs for 2008
Posted by george
Great Britain has released the new designs for circulating coins, which will be released during the summer of 2008.
It is a full shield on the 1 pound coin, and portions of the shield on the lower denominations, so that they form a full shield. They are the same size and shape as the current coins.
Graphically, they are neet, pratically, I think it is silly, and that comes from a collector of British Coinage since 1974!
You can see the designs and story at the BBC.
The artist will receive over $60,000 for his efforts.
George
4/2/2008 4:33:32 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
New Color Fives hit small-town America !
Posted by george
Waupaca County already had examples of the color $5.00 bill on Monday, with tellers at the First National Bank office in the county seat of Waupaca ready to distribute examples to customers (me) who were requesting them. Those I received were from the IB block of the NYC Fed (B2), printed in Fort Worth from face plate 5, 6, and 7).
On Tuesday, I asked the tellers at the Iola branch of the Premier Bank. I received again (IB) block from (B2), and Face plate examples of 5, 6, 7, 8. However, looking at the range of serial numbers (and the abundance of zeros), I noticed that I was 1000 numbers away form a nice radar note. Sadly, the bank did not have it. So I have a note which is one (central) digit from being a nice radar.
Oh well. The bills are nice.
George
3/26/2008 10:47:45 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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