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International Bank Note Society

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A few months ago I created a fantasy series of bond certificates in SVG format. Bank notes and the history of their prints is a fascinating topic. The guilloche patterns and cross hatch shading techniques lend themselves to SVG generation. Most of it could be achieved in Inkscape. The rest was done in the XML.

Can we see them, or the code?

The "Missing Notes" page is interesting. I thought it would be a list of notes they need examples or specimens of, but it's actually individual lost items, specified down to the serial number: https://www.theibns.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&...

I like the Hall of Fame as well; gives a nice little glimpse into a hobby and community I'm not part of and have no interest in, but which a number of people are heavily invested in. I bet/hope the drama is insane...

I’d love to know if any of these were recovered or is it primarily a venting wall. Maybe also helps society members track which countries are riskiest to send from.

Many of them are listed as, say "PMG VF25", meaning they've been through a third party grading program and are in a specific, easily identifiable type of holder.

I'd expect if you tried to take such notes to a high-end dealer or auction house, they'd check a list like this.

In the coin collecting universe, similar encapsulation is commonplace for rare or commonly counterfeited types. Some fraud has had its cover blown because they tried to fake the capsule (for example, to turn a $100 coin into a $1000 one by bluffing on the grade). The capsule serial number doesn't match the record on the third-party grading service's website, or the same number was used on fake holders, so the grading service tagged it as such and re-certified the "legitimate" original coin.

I'm not a crazy cryptobro or anything but one would have to be blind to see the trends of big tech entering politics, which would almost certainly lead to the end of currency as such. I wonder if in the future people will collect paper money.

The hyperinflation gallery: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/hyper/

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