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FAUX DOUGH: MOVIE PROP MONEYRick Reed's Currency Banknotes May 2020 Newsletter offers "Stage Money" - prop notes used in stage and film to represent the Real McCoy. Here's an excerpt. -Editor 
Ocean's Eleven $100 old style Federal Reserve Note prop We have been surprisingly busy throughout much of this period, although ebay has been a bit slow of late. But, it seems more people are ordering from www.CurrencyBanknotes.com now, which is great. Thanks so much for all the wonderful orders - we appreciate it very much! In February, we attended a few more shows and picked up some more world banknotes from our favorite local dealers. The past three months have also been busy for our fantasy art note division, as customers have been eagerly snapping up examples of the newest creations, as well as some old favorites. The printer also just completed printing a few new varieties that had been requested. I mentioned last time we would also be adding in some neat and collectible (mostly old) Hollywood movie prop money to the site as well and you can see some new examples in our Latest Additions area. For years we have had many prop bills on ebay, and did pretty well with them (we purchased a treasure trove of these back in 2001). As I previously stated, it seems ebay is becoming less tolerant of these film/tv artifacts as true collectibles and instead applying their outlandish rules on replicas to them, with the result that many of them got removed and so we have not been relisting them there, just on our website now. This is also happening with many other items we sell - making it too expensive and time-consuming to list them all on ebay but go on the website much easier and don't cost us for each item; it's just a flat rate for hosting the site. We consider ebay a good recruitment field for our much more comprehensive website. So it will pay you to shop here! As time allows, we are adding in new items of all types and price ranges to the site. We have lots of inventory we are still sorting through. Recently started going through some prop material we received over the past several years and its like Christmas every time we look. Lots of interesting and fascinating new pieces, like the 100 dollar notes used in the 2001 film "Ocean's Eleven," and numerous other examples of faux dough used in tv, movies, and on stage. The eBay policy is understandable given the rash of reports of people buying fake notes labeled "MOTION PICTURE MONEY" online and trying to spend them. It's a nuisance for merchants and law enforcement alike despite the ease of identifying them. Rick adds: "I agree that prop notes can be a nuisance to merchants at times and some can be a bit deceptive. However, eBay has a knack for kicking off props and some novelty bills that don’t in any way, shape, or form resemble current (or even former) negotiable notes. Some of the items they tossed off more closely resemble coupons than currency. So that gets a bit annoying too. Especially when Chinese (and other) sellers are allowed to sell blatantly counterfeit items on there without any disclaimer on them. Of course, when they banned the sale of replica coins marked “COPY” on there, people just started selling unmarked replicas (i. e. counterfeits) and called them “commemoratives.” Fred Reed's landmark catalog Show Me The Money is the standard reference, and its genesis was here in The E-Sylum. Check out Rick's site for more. But first, here are a couple examples from the newsletter. -Editor  20th Century-Fox Films Corp. "stage money" style prop acquired from Ellis Props Sale in 2000. Listed in Fred Reed's landmark catalog "Show Me The Money." Scarce - only a couple left in stock!  US $20 style (series 2016) Cinematic Movie Prop Money, with a "smiling Andrew Jackson," actually someone else's mug substituted for Old Hickory. A well-done, professionally printed piece, not shown in Fred Reed's "Show Me The Money" catalog of movie prop money as it was created well after the catalog came out. Could easily pass as the real thing from a distance, but easily recognizable as a prop bill with many disclaimers in all the titles. To visit Rick's CurrencyBanknotes.com, see:
 Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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