Old Bills Found In Circulation! Post Yours!

my area seems to be dry in terms of finding older bills in circulation. That said, I did receive a non-colorized Series 2006 $5.00 bill today while making a small cash withdrawal at Bank of America.

It's not in great shape, but I guess it's something

Interesting day today.......one of my co-workers was talking to a friend of hers who was showing her a $100 bill that she said a client of hers gave her, and the bank would not take it because they ran the pen on it and said it was fake. I looked at it and told her they were full of sh*t. It's a 1950-C $100 bill, E-A block, in decent condition. I immediately gave her 5 20's and now it's mine!

She asked why the bank pen would make it look fake and I told her the paper was prob diff than what they use now.......although I don't know if that's true or not. Does anyone else know? apparently they don't teach anyone at the bank a darn thing any more.

Here are some of the bills I've received in the past year:

L6072---1A 1976 $2
G5400---7A 1976 $2
C5899---6B 1977 $1
L3519---9G 1988A $1
L8379---8A 1990 $20
A6333---9M 1995 $1
F9468---7E 1995 $5
B7881---8P 1999 $1
B9106---4L 1999 $1
BE723---21A 1999 $5
BB528---79A 1999 $5
B2803---6D 2001 $1
CB036---29A 2001 $5

Those are some of the oldest notes I've entered onto WG!

I have a friend at the bank who knows I collect stuff and usually saves interesting things for me. A few years back, he said he had some "really neat" stuff to show me. When I asked what, he said, "A Wheat cent..."
"Ohh...kay..."
"... and a Mercury dime ..."
"Well, that's nice - I'll buy that."
"... and some $2 bills."
"Show me."

He proceeded to pull out TWO PACKS of bills - one was 1976 $2 FRNs (mostly CU, several consecutive runs), but the other consisted of 1928F, 1953, 1953A, 1953B, 1953C, 1963, and 1963A $2 red-seal U.S. Notes! Some were "love notes" (one or more corners torn off), but some were uncirculated, with an occasional star note and one nearly consecutively-numbered CU pair (off by one)! He said some lady brought them in earlier that day to deposit. Needless to say, I left the bank with a couple of packs of U.S. paper.

Here are the pictures

The last three on the upper-right serial number is high.
I don't know if it's common or not.






Here are the other bills too. (I also found a $1 standard repeater #26692669)
The top two twenties are 2001.
The middle ten is 1999 and the twenty is 1996
The bottom two tens are 2003.

You guys are lucky in the States! I got a Merlyn Lowther ten pound note from an ATM yesterday - it dates back to around 2004 and is about the oldest banknote you can now find in circulation in England!

Sometime in the mid-late 1980s I remember getting a 1950 US $20 bill among my tips as a tour guide, but I couldn't afford to keep it at the time!

Hey Wheathunter, I would keep the top right 20 since it's practically uncirculated and you don't see the K series that often. I'm not as big on getting old bills, but if the tellers have any saved, then I will happily take them off their hands.

I picked up a 1974 $10 today, and it looks like it's been in someone's collection for the last 40 years, it's almost uncirculated in my opinion!