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This article is my homage to the deletionists that didn't seem too concerned about helping someone new to Wikipedia but rather deleting for the sake of deleting multiple times. However, whoever it was that eventually did help me, I give my thanks. -- Kurt 01:01, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Isn't there supposed to be a tag on the article page to identify it as a featured article? Ifnord 00:29, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Why is "Demand Note" capitalised? Rich Farmbrough 08:47 26 May 2006 (UTC).
I think that the pictures in this article are ugly. They're edited images of demand notes with text on them. The font that's used is awful, and there are effects on it that I certainly don't agree with. I'd be glad to fix them up a little, but it makes me wonder why an article like this is promoted to featured. Whatever happened to concise and unedited use of images? This is just visual bloat to me. This article also contains no external links. That's not exactly a prerequisite to be a featured article, but I've come to expect featured articles to have lots of tips for further research. — Michiel Sikma, 09:50, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Is it worth a mention in the article that demand notes are/have been used elsewhere in the world (e.g. Scotland)? Andy 11:03, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Most often, "demand note" refers to any promissory note that is payable on demand. As such, they constitute one of the most frequently-used financial instruments in the world, and are probably worth an article, since there is significant case law concerning tehm. Ultimately either that subject or a dab page should be the article under this name. At that point this article should probably be renamed "Demand note (United States Currency)" or some such. No harm until someone gets around to writing the more general article, though. The term is also used colloquially by LE to refer to a note passed by a bank robber to a teller demanding money. Whether this is dark humor is beyond my knowledge. Robert A.West ( Talk) 18:31, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
"Demand Notes not of the most common types usually do not have a price affixed to them and sell at auction prices;" - I can see what's being got at here but perhaps something like "Apart from the most common types, Demand Notes usually sell at auction, rather than being offered at a fixed price;" - "rather than being offered at a fixed price" could be removed if it's seen as redundant giving "Apart from the most common types, Demand Notes usually sell at auction;". Perhaps there's a better phrasing? Rich Farmbrough 13:35 26 May 2006 (UTC).
The Indian Currency is a Demand Note Doctor Bruno 14:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
The main image used in this article doesn't really seem like it belongs in an encyclopedia. More like an advertisement in a philately numismatics magazine.--
Theodore Kloba 19:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear fellow contributors
MOSNUM no longer encourages date autoformatting, having evolved over the past year or so from the mandatory to the optional after much discussion there and elsewhere of the disadvantages of the system. Related to this, MOSNUM prescribes rules for the raw formatting, irrespective of whether a date is autoformatted or not). MOSLINK and CONTEXT are consistent with this.
There are at least six disadvantages in using date-autoformatting, which I've capped here:
Removal has generally been met with positive responses by editors. Does anyone object if I remove it from the main text in a few days’ time on a trial basis? The original input formatting would be seen by all WPians, not just the huge number of visitors; it would be plain, unobtrusive text, which would give greater prominence to the high-value links. Tony (talk) 14:56, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Several sources indicate that it is a common misconception that these notes were ever paid out in coin by the assistant treasurers after the suspension of specie payment by banks in December of 1861. This article implies otherwise. I am going to do further research and edit the article to correct the false impression if research continues to back this up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LondonYoung ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Before I start a FAR, some of the paragraphs like "located respectively to her right and left." in the section $20 notes and "authority to issue banknotes at that time" in Treasury Notes and Early United States Paper Money is unreferenced. If anybody needs help, please let me know. I probably check back in the meantime or so. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 21:57, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I have added high resolution images for each denomination in a tabular format. Is there any objection to removing the lower resolution images for each denomination? Thanks-- Godot13 ( talk) 00:34, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Shown here is a $20 note, dated 10 August 1861, which features a feminine allegory representing either Liberty, or perhaps America, in the center. The figure has a sword in her right hand and holds a striped shield, featuring a Bald Eagle at the top, in her left. This bill is scanned from the National Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing (image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)
Banknote:I think it would be helpful to indicate the size of the notes; I've heard that the size banknotes and dollars has changed over time. Does anyone have a source for this? -- A D Monroe III ( talk) 15:30, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
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This article is my homage to the deletionists that didn't seem too concerned about helping someone new to Wikipedia but rather deleting for the sake of deleting multiple times. However, whoever it was that eventually did help me, I give my thanks. -- Kurt 01:01, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Isn't there supposed to be a tag on the article page to identify it as a featured article? Ifnord 00:29, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Why is "Demand Note" capitalised? Rich Farmbrough 08:47 26 May 2006 (UTC).
I think that the pictures in this article are ugly. They're edited images of demand notes with text on them. The font that's used is awful, and there are effects on it that I certainly don't agree with. I'd be glad to fix them up a little, but it makes me wonder why an article like this is promoted to featured. Whatever happened to concise and unedited use of images? This is just visual bloat to me. This article also contains no external links. That's not exactly a prerequisite to be a featured article, but I've come to expect featured articles to have lots of tips for further research. — Michiel Sikma, 09:50, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Is it worth a mention in the article that demand notes are/have been used elsewhere in the world (e.g. Scotland)? Andy 11:03, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Most often, "demand note" refers to any promissory note that is payable on demand. As such, they constitute one of the most frequently-used financial instruments in the world, and are probably worth an article, since there is significant case law concerning tehm. Ultimately either that subject or a dab page should be the article under this name. At that point this article should probably be renamed "Demand note (United States Currency)" or some such. No harm until someone gets around to writing the more general article, though. The term is also used colloquially by LE to refer to a note passed by a bank robber to a teller demanding money. Whether this is dark humor is beyond my knowledge. Robert A.West ( Talk) 18:31, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
"Demand Notes not of the most common types usually do not have a price affixed to them and sell at auction prices;" - I can see what's being got at here but perhaps something like "Apart from the most common types, Demand Notes usually sell at auction, rather than being offered at a fixed price;" - "rather than being offered at a fixed price" could be removed if it's seen as redundant giving "Apart from the most common types, Demand Notes usually sell at auction;". Perhaps there's a better phrasing? Rich Farmbrough 13:35 26 May 2006 (UTC).
The Indian Currency is a Demand Note Doctor Bruno 14:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
The main image used in this article doesn't really seem like it belongs in an encyclopedia. More like an advertisement in a philately numismatics magazine.--
Theodore Kloba 19:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear fellow contributors
MOSNUM no longer encourages date autoformatting, having evolved over the past year or so from the mandatory to the optional after much discussion there and elsewhere of the disadvantages of the system. Related to this, MOSNUM prescribes rules for the raw formatting, irrespective of whether a date is autoformatted or not). MOSLINK and CONTEXT are consistent with this.
There are at least six disadvantages in using date-autoformatting, which I've capped here:
Removal has generally been met with positive responses by editors. Does anyone object if I remove it from the main text in a few days’ time on a trial basis? The original input formatting would be seen by all WPians, not just the huge number of visitors; it would be plain, unobtrusive text, which would give greater prominence to the high-value links. Tony (talk) 14:56, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Several sources indicate that it is a common misconception that these notes were ever paid out in coin by the assistant treasurers after the suspension of specie payment by banks in December of 1861. This article implies otherwise. I am going to do further research and edit the article to correct the false impression if research continues to back this up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LondonYoung ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Before I start a FAR, some of the paragraphs like "located respectively to her right and left." in the section $20 notes and "authority to issue banknotes at that time" in Treasury Notes and Early United States Paper Money is unreferenced. If anybody needs help, please let me know. I probably check back in the meantime or so. JJ98 ( Talk / Contributions) 21:57, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I have added high resolution images for each denomination in a tabular format. Is there any objection to removing the lower resolution images for each denomination? Thanks-- Godot13 ( talk) 00:34, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Shown here is a $20 note, dated 10 August 1861, which features a feminine allegory representing either Liberty, or perhaps America, in the center. The figure has a sword in her right hand and holds a striped shield, featuring a Bald Eagle at the top, in her left. This bill is scanned from the National Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing (image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)
Banknote:I think it would be helpful to indicate the size of the notes; I've heard that the size banknotes and dollars has changed over time. Does anyone have a source for this? -- A D Monroe III ( talk) 15:30, 10 August 2014 (UTC)