Hi
I have recently acquired a gold bank note from antigua and Barbada. I know nothing about it can can find nothing about it
Any help would be great
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I think there are some listed in the Exonumia note catalog.
They are listed here, in the banknotes section. They were produced to commemorate Antigua and Barbuda's independence.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/antigua-et-barbuda-banknotes-1.html
Over the past few days many more examples have been added by a collector - this has greatly expanded the section.
If your gold note is not yet on numista, you might like to add it.
Interesting, official issues but are they legal tender?
KennyG
…but are they legal tender?
I looked this up, and as far as I can determine, they are legal tender in Antigua and Barbuda alongside the EC Dollar.
I guess that the gold content in them is well below their face value. I know relatively little about them.
Listed in the Pick catalogue with a ‘CS’ catalogue number, as are the Belizean ones.
Aidan.
BluHawk,
They are a collector's series - non-circulating gold foil.
The bullion value of the gold foil alone is worth more than face value - as 30 East Caribbean States Dollars has a pretty low value today compared to what it was in 1981.
Aidan.
BCNumismatics
BluHawk,
They are a collector's series - non-circulating gold foil.
The bullion value of the gold foil alone is worth more than face value - as 30 East Caribbean States Dollars has a pretty low value today compared to what it was in 1981.
Aidan.
Thanks Aidan
The notes are ‘made with thin gold and silver foil bonded to paper’ according to SCWPM 23rd Ed.
And they have a modest catalogue value of $25 each - likely worth more now with the increase in gold value.
An interesting project would be to find out what weight of gold is in them.
Here is a Coin Community Forum thread on "The Saga of Treasure Ships and Pirates" series of 30 gold foil collector notes.
Conclusion from XRF testing:
We entered the Karat based on the note and then tested it and the tester said it wasn't gold?
So my dealer looked at the note and asked if we could do a small cut.
I said sure as I needed to find out what's up.
We made a small cut and that was when we discovered the center of the note is paper.
The paper is covered in a very thin gold foil.
Based on the acid test we concluded the gold foil is at least 23K and the silver is just a thin applique which must be bonded to the gold.
Based on 2.2 Grams weight of the note, the tester said it had less then 10% gold.
No matter what setting we tried it wasn't enough gold to register.
So the dealers feelings are that the notes are at most .2 grams of gold (about $10 in gold), but due to
the work in removing it from the paper backing he wouldn't buy it.
The notes basically only have collector value and insignificant gold value.
This was after the OP went to a facility to have one of the notes tested (he wanted to determine the gold content).
Heh :) I figured someone would have done this test already.
Non-commemorative gold foil notes produced as collectibles have been around for a while, and I always reckoned that their gold content had to be very low considering the prices they were floating at.
The Antigua and Barbuda notes, being an official issue with a face value would be worth a bit more. There should be some sales data on the out there somewhere on them.
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