200th Post!

It's finally here! It took 3 months and 10 days to come but it came! Here's a link to my 100th post so you can compare them.  Since then I have started a series in which I am featuring most of my foreign collection, I have acquired one of every circulating pre-1964 Roosevelt silver dime (hasn't been posted yet and most likely won't be until after the series), found a few Canadian coins (1968 Canadian Quarter and 1980 Canadian Penny or cent), purchased quite a few silver, aluminum, and foreign coins, and I have somehow managed to keep putting up a post every day. I'd like to thank my one and only follower who also has a coin blog (located in this link), Man at Coined for Money who has provided me with lots of great information, any other regular visitors (including my Macomb, Illinois visitor that I see in the Feedjit often) and people who have shared my blog with others. I'd also like to thank the entire world in its past, present, and future forms for presenting the numismatic world with beautiful coins and currency.

Happy 150th Anniversary!

Some shredded bills.

The series dates from two bills.



Some pieces of $100 bills.

Some pices of $20 bills.

Signature of Henry Paulson.

Eagle on shield. Printed in sparkly, color shifting-ink.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the BEP (Bureau of Engraving and Printing) I decided to do a post about paper money! Shredded paper money, that is. I got it at the BEP in the gift shop/store which has a much larger selection in person than online. I also got a sheet of uncut $5.00 bills which I'll be posting in the future. For those of you who don't know the BEP is where American paper money is printed. There are two locations one is in Washington D.C. the other is in Fort Worth, Texas. They both offer free tours of the production facility as well as some other stuff shown on the website. It was a great way to learn about bill production and history as well as technological advances in the printing machinery and the bills themselves. What I mean by this is the security features such as watermarks, security srtips, and new colors on bills. Since this money has been shredded it holds no real value, although $1.50 seemed to be a nice price for hundreds of dollars of shredded money.

100th Post!

Today marks the day that I post my 100th post (this one, of course). It's been about 2 months since my 6 month anniversary so there's not that much new stuff to report. I did find my first 2012 cent, get a Where's George bill, witness the downfall of the Canadian Cent, and while I just read down my post list I found out that this is my most popular post. I also just found out that I have 5,934 views on all of my posts! Thanks to everyone who has visited, commented, showed this to others, etc.!