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The E-Sylum: Volume 28, Number 17, 2025, Article 4

NEW BOOK: PROMOTIONAL SHEET & TEST NOTES 2025

Roland Rollins has published an updated edition of his book on banknote company promotional sheets and test notes. -Editor

Promotional Sheets and Test Notes 2025 book cover The Catalog of Printers Promotional Sheets & Test Notes - 19th Edition

The Reference for Bank Note Printer Test, Promotional, and Advertising Sheets & Notes

Covers all test, advertising, promotional, color samples house notes, titled vignette sheets, stock samples, greeting cards, and calendars for firms involved in the production of bank notes.

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Released March 2025

  • Hundreds of back light, UV (ultraviolet), close up, and sharp angle images to show security features present. All trademarked security terms shown, with a definition and firm using feature in the expanded Glossary. Now in 2025, there are 298 features from Active to Zebra.
  • Current valuations in uncirculated condition for all notes. Now includes valuations of notes with brochures when available.
  • IN PDF (Adobe Acrobat) 143 MB file on CD, thus much lower shipping fees! FREE shipping for email download option!
  • 1,373 pages (81 more pages than 2023!) LARGER than the Standard Catalog of Paper Money (Pick) catalog!
  • 7,630 COLOR NOTE IMAGES (381 more than 2023), where feasible imaged enlarged for detail
  • Attributing 3,643 (164 new this issue) notes documenting all sub-varieties, such as date, logo, address, color, material, security device differences, and others. With sub-varieties, there are 6,341 cataloged notes - up 310 from the last issue.
  • All 297 known printer firms producing test notes (12 new firms attributed!), including Printer's test, house and advertising notes from the 1820's forward. The catalog also includes any firm used to produce bank notes, including security ink, security paper mills, polymer producers, holographic and other security devices, and banknote design firms.
  • Images of 95+% of each test note set.
  • Only English language test note catalog.
  • Only current test note catalog.
  • Bookmark feature. ALL test note issuing firms are bookmarked, standard on all catalogs sold.
  • Table of Contents lists Firm, number of unique cataloged notes, number of sub-varieties and comments. Also shows the alpha catalog designation for each test note variety.
  • Instructions for converting the PDF file to read on KINDLE
  • As with all PDF files, the entire catalog is searchable with a word or phrase. Common names of test notes added to aid search, such as "blue bird", "Lord Nelson", "Lupo", "Pushkin" or "Avantgarde".
  • Cross reference "family trees" of all firms that formed the American Bank Note Company and Thomas de la Rue.

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For more information, or to order, see:
http://currency_den.tripod.com/testnotes/order.html
2025 eBook Catalog Printers Promotional Sheets & Test Notes 19h Ed, 1373 pages (https://www.ebay.com/itm/205357561210)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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