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Confederate States of America 1864 – 100 Dollars Pink Underprint Richmond (T-65 CR-121)

The one-hundred-dollar note of the February 17, 1864 Confederate issue, cataloged as T-65 (Criswell 121), was the highest denomination of the Confederacy’s final paper-money series. Printed by Keatinge & Ball in Columbia, South Carolina, this design became one of the most recognizable icons of Confederate finance during the final year of the Civil War. Read more →

Uruguay 1896 - Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay 1 Peso Sepia Photographic Proof Pair (Pick Unlisted)

The reverse presents a pastoral scene framed by classical ornament, incorporating rural activity and landscape elements alongside a portrait medallion and the national arms. Fine cross-hatching and controlled tonal transitions maintain clarity across the broad pictorial field in sepia photographic form. Read more →

Uruguay 1896 - Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay 5 Pesos Photographic Proof Pair (Pick Unlisted)

These photographic proofs were produced as archival records of the finalized engravings rather than as press trials or circulation material. Preserved as a complete face-and-back ensemble and previously mounted on cardstock, the pair documents the design language employed for Uruguay’s lower-denomination notes at the close of the nineteenth century. Read more →

Uruguay 1896 - Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay 10 Pesos Serie A Sepia Photographic Proof Pair, Dated 29 April 1925 (Pick Unlisted)

The reverse presents a monumental twin-towered building within a broad urban setting. The structure is shown frontally and dominates the central field, framed by elaborate architectural and floral ornament. Its symmetrical facade, towers, entrance, surrounding plaza, and carefully controlled perspective give the reverse a strong sense of civic permanence and national development. Read more →

Uruguay 1896 - Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay 10 Pesos Series A Photographic Proof Pair (Pick Unlisted)

Prepared for the Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, this photographic proof pair preserves a complete face-and-reverse design for the ten pesos denomination authorized under the law of 4 August 1896. Produced by Bradbury, Wilkinson and Company Limited, the two monochrome photographic impressions document the proposed banknote through its denomination structure, Series A serial arrangement, legal wording, institutional imagery, national arms, architectural vignette, ornamental borders, and reserved portrait areas. Read more →

Uruguay 1896 - Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay 100 Pesos Photographic Proof Pair, Series A (Pick Unlisted)

The face is constructed around a highly symmetrical arrangement of two oval portrait medallions. At left appears Juan Antonio Lavalleja, the military leader associated with the Thirty-Three Orientals and the struggle that led toward Uruguayan independence. At right appears Manuel Oribe, the second constitutional president of Uruguay and a central political and military figure of the nineteenth century. Their opposing profiles create a formal historical dialogue across the denomination. Read more →

Japan 1800 - Edo Period 5 Momme Silver Hansatsu with Daikokuten Reverse and Oil Merchant Validation Seal Woodblock Printed on Handmade Washi Paper

The reverse gives the note its strongest visual identity. It features Daikokuten, the deity of wealth, grain, abundance, and good fortune. Daikokuten is traditionally associated with rice bales and the mallet of fortune, making the image perfectly suited to a currency instrument rooted in value, trust, and prosperity. On a hansatsu, this kind of imagery was not just religious ornament. It added moral and symbolic authority, presenting the note as a protected and fortunate object within the commercial life of the community. Read more →

Honduras 1873 - 5 Pesos Treasury Note Billete de Tesoreria, Comayagua (Pick Unlisted)

Original 5 Pesos Billete de Tesoreria issued by the Republic of Honduras at Comayagua and dated April 20, 1873. The printed text makes it payable to bearer against the national Treasury under the decree of March 18 of the same year, a stop-gap fiscal instrument used in place of scarce coin. Read more →

Paraguay 1856 - Tesoro Nacional 2 Reales Treasury Note, Earliest National Paper Money (Pick Unlisted, Miguel Pratt MC14)

This example preserves the handmade and improvised nature of Paraguay's earliest fiscal printing. Its thin paper, uneven inking, blank reverse, manuscript signatures, and locally printed format are not merely production details; they are evidence of a young state creating sovereign money with the limited tools available in Asuncion. As a Pick Unlisted note attributed in specialized Latin American references as Miguel Pratt MC14, it stands outside the standard world-paper-money catalog sequence and represents a primary artifact of Paraguay's monetary origins. Read more →

1875 - 5 Shillings Victoria Consular Revenue Tied Diplomatic Document (British Consulate, Alexandria)

During this period, British consular power in Egypt functioned under the Ottoman Capitulations system, a network of treaties granting European nationals extensive extraterritorial rights. British citizens were not subject to local Egyptian courts but fell under the jurisdiction of their own consular officers. This created a parallel legal structure in which British consulates served simultaneously as civil registries, notary offices, administrative courts, and diplomatic missions. Every official action required a fee, paid by affixing Consular Service revenue stamps; the high 5 Shilling denomination was used only for legally consequential or high-value acts. Read more →

Spain 1857 - Banco de Zaragoza 100 Reales Vellón Serie A Issued Note No. 23322 (Pick S451b)

Its engraving matches the S451s full-sheet specimen: Madrid-school borders, decorative acanthus elements, and a formal promise payable in Zaragoza. Serial number 23322 places it within the same emission batch as the specimen full sheet (Serie A No. 23327) also in the collection (see item 'spain-1857-banco-de-zaragoza-100-reales-serie-a-23327-specimen-full-sheet'). Together they form a complete archival and circulation pair. Read more →

Spain 1857 - Banco de Zaragoza 500 Reales Vellón Serie C Issued Note No. 08785 (Pick S453a)

This issued note pairs with the full-sheet specimen S453s (Serie C No. 08703) retained in the collection (see item 'spain-1857-banco-de-zaragoza-500-reales-serie-c-08703-specimen-full-sheet'), together documenting both the production and circulation forms of one of the rarest provincial emissions in 19th-century Spain. Read more →