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October running total: £12 face value.

23.10.15
Added £1 x 10 as below. Total face value £10
HA x 3; MA x 1; NA x 4.

October has been a light month so far.

Edit: 26.10.15
Added two more £1 notes, both off dealers' lists.

Edit: End of the month. Things are getting lean!
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November running total: £75

10.11.15
Four £1 notes spotted in an auction gets us going. BA, NA, HA, PA.

Edit:12.11.15
Added a £5 and another £1, spotted on ebay.

EDIT: 18.11.15
Added 28 notes previously not recorded, including some images, old data recorded from Whytes auctions in 1995—2001. Many other notes in the catalogues have turned up subsequently, but these 28 had not been added to PSS previously. A nice find!

Total: £1 x 23, £5 x 1, £10 x 3.
Fv = £58

EDIT 22.11.15
6 £1 notes spotted in an on-line auction. All new to PSS. Grades mostly VG.

EDIT: 27.11.15
Added one £1 note, spotted in a web auction.
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December 2015: Running total for December: £1 x 10, £5 x 3, £10 x 2 = £55 face value.

Last month I received a usb with about 83 Ploughman scans on it. This feedback was a direct result of the Coin News article I wrote on the PSS, and it is much appreciated. A detailed breakdown of the notes follow.

Feedback of this kind will keep improving the PSS into the future.

Notes new to the survey were added as follows: £1 x 9; £5 x 3, £10 x 2 = £54 face value.
£10 x 2
MT x 1; NT x 1

£5 x 3
HK x 2, NK x 1

£1 x 9
BA x 4; NA x 2; RA x 2; UA x 1, a nice high grade Lester signature note.

Edit 30.12.15
Added £1, BA spotted on ebay.
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January 2016: Total for January: £49 face value.
£1 x 4, £5 x 3, £10 x 3

Spotted two Pound notes on ebay:
£1 x 2
BA x 1; MA x 1

EDIT: 25.01.15
Added £37 FV images scavenged from old dealer's lists:
2x £1; 3 x £5; 2 x £10.

Not much else showing up this month.

Edit: 31.01.16
I wrote too soon!
£10 National Bank spotted online! Low grade, but a tenner is always significant.
£10 x 1
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February 2016: Running total for Feb: £1 x 40, £5 x 9, £10 x 5 = £135

04.02.16
February starts off with a few nice notes:
£1 BA spotted in an auction.

Plus: £1 x PA; £1 x NA; £5 x PK recorded from a collection.

05.02.16
BK £5 note added

EDIT: 08.02.16
Recorded an old collection as follows:
£1 x 20; £5 x 4; £10 x 1
FV = £50

EDIT: 21.02.16
Spotted a £1 note on ebay.

EDIT: 25.02.16
Recorded a group of notes, including two nice grade £10 notes: BoI and ML.

BA x 2, BK x 2, BT x 2;
HA x 4;
MA x 3, MK x 1, MT x 2;
NA x 3;
PA x 2;
RA x 2.

£1 x 16; £5 x 3; £10 x 4
FV = £61

A nice group added to the census.

EDIT: 29.02.16
£32 face value added to the census at the February Dublin Coin Fair this year, including an Ulster Bank £10 note in good Fine grade.

£1 x 12; £5 x 2; £10 x 1. FV = £32.
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Generally, it will be seen that the number of £1 notes recorded relative to the other denominations is increasing.
This is to be expected in the long term, as smaller collections are added into the database.

Once again, a big thank you to all the collectors and dealers who are supporting the survey project.
We're nearly at the point where some more results are worth publishing, most likely as part of another article in Coin News.
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A good haul for February so far. We'll see if anything interesting turns up at the Dublin Coin Fair this weekend.

It will be an interesting weekend in Dublin, with a General Election on Friday, and the fun of the election count on Saturday—should make it home just in time for the results!
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£32 face value added to the census at the February Dublin Coin Fair this year, including an Ulster Bank £10 note in good Fine grade. Additionally, images were added for a further 19 notes previously recorded without images being available at the time, one of these going way back over 20 years!

Breakdown: £1 x 12; £5 x 2; £10 x 1. FV = £32.
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March 2016: Total for March.
£1 x 15; £5 x 1 = £20 face value.

March starts off with two £1 notes recorded off a well known auction website. £2 in total.

EDIT: 12.03.16:
A few newly recorded notes in the forthcoming DNW auction, and from a couple of sales lists. £8 in total:
£1 x 8.

EDIT: 17.03.16:
Added £1 x 1; £5 x 1 = £6 face value

EDIT: 29.03.16:
£1 x 4 notes added, all BA, including a nice fresh about EF, and a nice gVF.
Good to see Ploughmans turning up in this grade, hopefully no one will iron it!

I'll do a report on the numbers of notes seen in each grade soon. It should make for some interesting reading.
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I've been looking at the grades of the notes lately.
I have about 2000 notes to grade there.

One of the interesting things about the Ploughman Scan Survey data images subset is the relatively few £1 notes recorded with graffiti on them—I remember lots of Ploughmans with writing on them in the old days.

There are also some other trends emerging: people are still bleaching notes, with less skill (if you can call it that) than they did 30 years ago! Some really dopey cretins out there. I've seen a good spread of notes that have been bleached since I first recorded them—ebay is becoming a wasteland of these.
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April 2016: Total for April.
£1 x 56, £5 x 9, £10 x 3 = £131 face value.


April 13:
£1 x 1; £5 x 1 = £6 face value.
April kicks off with two notes new to PSS, spotted at the April fair in Dublin.

EDIT: April 20.
£147 added, see post below.

EDIT: April 28.
Added three low grade £1 notes
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£1 x 52, £5 x 8, £10 x 3 = £122 face value.

68 notes, new to the Ploughman Scan Survey (PSS) added from Whyte's The Eclectic Collector 2016 auction, on 14 May, 2016.
Breakdown as follows:
BA x 13, BK x 1;
MA x 6, MK x 1, MT x 2;
NA x 30, NK x 5;
PA x 2, PT x 1;
RA x 1, RK x 1.

There are also two £10 notes and seven £5 notes in the sale which are already recorded in PSS.

The lowest grade note is a National £10, heavily repaired, which has been up several times before, always reserved too high!

Among these notes is a Provincial Bank of Ireland £10 note with Kennedy signature. This is interesting, as it is one of the rarer notes, but also it is outside of the known run of 17.7.39 £10 notes. It is also well circulated, pointing to the possibility that all notes of this date were put into circulation, even though they were likely extraordinary issue.

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Provincial Bank of Ireland Ploughman 17.7.39. Kennedy signature.

There is a lot about the Ploughman notes which remains to be discovered.
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May 2016: Total for May.
£1 x 6, £5 x 2 = £16 face value.


May 20:
£1 x 5; £5 x 1 = £10 face value.
Things are quiet now, May is struggling! We have a few notes recorded so far.

EDIT: 21.05.16
£5 note added.

EDIT: 24.05.16
£1 Northern added.
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June 2016: Running total for June.
£1 x 3, £5 x 2, £10 x 1 = £23 face value.

09.06.16
£1 x 1, £5 x 1 added.

14.06.16
£1 x 1, £5 x 1 added. Spotted in an on-line sale.

25.06.16
£1 x 1, £10 x 1—both low grade notes.
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July 2016: Total for July.
£1 x 8, £5 x 40, £10 x 4 = £248 face value.

08.07.16
£1 x 4, £5 x 2 added, from submitted scans.

25.07.16
£1 x 4, £5 x 1, £10 x 1 — all submitted notes, except for the £10 note which has turned up in an auction.

28.07.16
That auction is shaping up nicely.
3 x £10, 37 x £5 notes added. Grade variable, some nice £5 notes among them.

The total for July is shaping up nicely :)
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As of 30.07.16 over 8.7% of the total amount outstanding of Ploughman notes has been recorded in the PSS census, including missing data.

The census stands at 3139 notes, with a face value of £9,196.
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August 2016: Total for Aug.
£1 x 25; £5 x 1; £10 x 1 = £40 face value.

06.08.16
£1 note spotted. A modest start to a new month.

14.08.16
2 x £1 notes added.

30.08.16
Whytes September Collectibles sale has some Ploughman notes in it, mostly £1 notes. Most of the notes counted so far are new to the PSS census, as follows: £1 x 22; £5 x 1; £10 x 1.
Face value £37.

There are more notes in this sale that haven't been recorded yet.
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September 2016: Total for Sept.
£1 x 43; £5 x 1 = £48 face value.

10.09.16
A limp start to September with only a few sightings, all from small sales:
£5 x 1; £1 x 3

15.09.16
£1 x 40
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October 2016: Total for Oct.
£1 x 13; £5 x 3 = £28 face value. All from small auctions.

07.10.16
£1 x 6

13.10.16
£5 x 2 added

17.10.16
£1 x 2 added

30.10.16
£1 x 5; £5 x 1 added
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November 2016: Total for Nov.
£1 x 6; £5 x 10; £10 x 1 = £66 face value.

04.11.16
£1 x 2; £5 x 1.

05.11.16
Heritage auctions has another batch of Consolidated Bank Notes in its preview. No doubt more will be added.
£10 x 1, £5 x 8.

14.11.16
£1 x 1; £5 x 1.

22.11.16
£1 x 3.
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