Collection PL

Barbados 1980 - Government of Barbados 10,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Red Overprint, Punch Hole Cancelled, Prefix D

The serial number appears as D000000, consisting of a six-digit zero serial following the prefix D. This serial configuration is characteristic of specimen material prepared for verification, accounting reference, and institutional documentation rather than for issuance or financial transfer. Read more →

Barbados 1980 - Government of Barbados 10,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Punch Hole Cancelled, No Prefix

This example is preserved in graded condition and represents a complete specimen state defined by denomination clarity, standardized legal wording, engraved security printing, and punch-hole cancellation. Surviving specimen Treasury Bills of this denomination are scarce and are typically encountered as isolated institutional remnants rather than as part of documented series. Read more →

Barbados 1960 - Government of Barbados 50,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Punch Hole Cancelled, Prefix E

Specimen Treasury Bills of this denomination were produced in limited quantities for government and printer files. Surviving examples combining bearer obligation wording, printed numbering trials, prefix-based serial format, punch cancellation, and dated handwritten annotations represent a distinct and rarely encountered configuration within Barbados fiscal material. Read more →

Barbados 1975 - Government of Barbados 50,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Perforated SPECIMEN, Prefix F (Atypical for Denomination)

This Treasury Bill specimen was issued by the Government of Barbados under the authority of the Treasury Bills (Local) Act of 1922 and represents a non-circulating internal specimen retained for treasury control, audit reference, and archival purposes. The denomination of fifty thousand dollars places this bill among the highest-value Treasury Bills produced for Barbados. Read more →

Barbados 1981 - Government of Barbados 50,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Red Overprint, Prefix E

This Treasury Bill specimen was issued by the Government of Barbados under the authority of the Treasury Bills (Local) Act of 1922 and represents a non-circulating reference instrument prepared for internal treasury, accounting, and archival use during the late twentieth century. Read more →

Barbados 1968 - Government of Barbados 100,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Perforated Cancelled, Prefix F

Specimen Treasury Bills of this denomination were produced in strictly limited numbers for government files and printer archives. Surviving examples combining prefix and serial number, double perforated CANCELLED cancellation, and dated handwritten annotations represent a highly specific and rarely encountered configuration within Barbados fiscal material. Read more →

Barbados 1971 - Government of Barbados 100,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Prefix F

Along the upper margin, handwritten administrative annotations are present, including a numerical reference and a clearly written date reading 4.6.71. These annotations record internal handling or review activity and provide a firm chronological anchor for this specimen’s use within treasury or printer workflow. Read more →

Barbados 1981 - Government of Barbados 100,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Red Overprint, Prefix F

Specimen Treasury Bill issued by the Government of Barbados under the authority of the Treasury Bills (Local) Act of 1922 and prepared as a non-circulating reference instrument for internal treasury, accounting, and archival use. Read more →

Barbados 1976 - Government of Barbados 500,000 Dollars Treasury Bill, Specimen, Prefix G

Separately from the printed top-margin control line, handwritten administrative annotations are present in the upper right portion of the note. These handwritten markings include an internal batch reference and a handwritten date reading 7.5.76. Their placement and character indicate later treasury or printer-side handling distinct from the original printed control annotations. Read more →

Barbados 1981 - Government of Barbados 500,000 Dollars Treasury Bill Red Overprint Specimen, Prefix G

This example is preserved in a Paper Money Guaranty holder and graded 62 Uncirculated. Specimen Treasury Bills of this denomination and configuration are exceptionally rare, and examples combining the maximum denomination, red specimen overprint, zero serial prefix G, and absence of physical cancellation represent the terminal high-value reference state within Barbados fiscal documentation. Read more →

New Caledonia 1871 - French Treasury Second of Exchange for 2,000 Francs (Service des Colonies)

Bills of exchange of this type were not generic issues but transaction-specific payment orders. Each example corresponded to an individual treasury authorization, defined by its date, serial number, signatories, designated colony, and amount. Differences in year, colony, or signatures therefore represent distinct fiscal transactions rather than variants or duplicates of a single issue. Read more →

United States 1933 - Any City, U.S.A. 5 Dollars City and County Scrip Specimen (Generic Municipal Master Form)

The survival of this specimen is therefore exceptional. It documents not a single city’s response to crisis, but the structural mechanism by which municipal scrip could be deployed nationally under conditions of systemic financial stress. As such, it represents an infrastructural artifact of Depression-era municipal finance rather than a localized monetary issue. Read more →