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It is likely to remain one of those weird “what were they thinking” stories.Īnd it’s those kind of stories that people like me enjoy telling people like you as part of the collecting experience. One of the beauties of obsolete paper money is that we’ll probably never know. Perhaps it commemorates some local infestation or was simply felt to be distinctive and likely to cause the locals to talk about the issuer. Why this rather disgusting ravager of crops would be selected for such an honor escapes me. There, in all of its disgusting glory on an 1839 $1 note from Eatonton, Ga., was a tobacco hornworm! I think that the cataloger was probably correct in his assessment that this is undoubtedly the only use of the tobacco hornworm as the subject of a bank note vignette in the United States probably the world. I normally do not actively collect notes from Georgia, a state with many interesting and beautiful issues, but this lot brought me up short. While looking through the recent Florida United Numismatists Heritage Signature Auction lots, I came across lot 18308. But what in the world does the Manduca sexta, better known as the tobacco hornworm, have to do with bank notes? Then there’s the scrip note from Fish House, N.Y., that has a prominent vignette of a house superimposed on the side of a fish. Frogs engaged in combat appear on a Windham Bank (Conn.) $1 note, commemorating an unusual natural phenomenon that occurred in 1754, convincing the local populace that all of the racket made by thousands of frogs fighting for space in a greatly diminished pond meant that they were under attack by Indians!

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