Souvenir & specimen card auctions: ABNCo and security printer issues, searched at once

Souvenir and specimen cards are produced by security printers like the American Bank Note Company to showcase their finest engraving work, often reproducing obsolete banknotes, stock certificates or other printed security documents for collectors and trade shows rather than circulation. They sit at the crossroads of numismatics, scripophily and philately, and a specific series number or printer name is what separates a genuinely collectable card from a common reprint.

Why souvenir and specimen card lots get missed

General sellers frequently list these simply as "specimen note" or "souvenir card" without naming the printer or series, so a scarce ABNCo or other specialist issue can be sitting in a listing indistinguishable from a common one unless every platform is searched together.

One search across every platform

Auction Bid Assistant's free browser extension searches the-saleroom, EasyLive, Bidspotter, Invaluable, NumisBids, iCollector and LiveAuctionWorld simultaneously, alongside eBay. Search a printer name like "ABNCo," a series number, or "souvenir card specimen" generally and results return across all of them, with images, estimates, current bids where shown, and sale countdowns, sorted by platform in tabs.

Real results for "souvenir card specimen": genuine American Bank Note Company specimen souvenir cards, found in one search.

It works by searching from inside your own browser, the same as opening and searching each site yourself, just done in seconds. Nothing is stored on our servers, permissions are minimal, and the extension never places a bid on your behalf.

Alerts: for the printers or series you collect

Save a search (a printer name, a series number, or "souvenir card specimen" generally) and get emailed the moment a new lot matches it, across all covered platforms including eBay and NumisBids, rather than relying on remembering to check each one.

Want to try before installing?

The same search box works on this website with no install at all for eBay, iCollector, LiveAuctionWorld and Featured Auction catalogues, a quick way to see matching souvenir card lots before adding the rest of the platforms via the extension.

Built for how souvenir card collectors actually work

Save any lot with one click from search results, export your shortlist as a printable PDF or CSV before a sale, and on the day itself the optional live bridge feeds the auctioneer's asking price into the free bid calculator, so your maximum (with buyer's premium and any applicable taxes included) is always in front of you.

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