Old Bills Found In Circulation! Post Yours!

If you have any recent-series J, R, S, T, V, W, X, or Y blocks, you could sell those to me for Georging purposes.

Found both of these today out in the wild at work. Haven't seen many of the 1963A $5's and this one seems to have a very disproportionately thin margin on one side. On the reverse the margins seem to be okay though. The whole bill is noticeably shorter than a standard size bill. Can anyone provide any guidance and what this could be? A5 first I thought maybe someone cut off a little bit off, but since the margins on the back seem to be even it makes me think that's not what happened? Very stumped and hoping it's not a fake...


Also found the 1969 $50. Was a good day for finding "older" modern notes. Found a few stars earlier on in the week that I will post later.

I looked through my drawer when starting my shift tonight and it turns out someone used a 1988 $100 to buy something. I didn't trade for obvious reasons, but it was still cool to see since it's in REALLY nice shape for a small portrait 100.

Thank you for the opinion on this, I'm guessing that is what is has to be as well. No other explanation I can think of for the bill being shorter than it should be other than being cut.

I got a pair of 2003A fives the other day, but I'll probably just spend them.

Numisma, my mom had a similar experience. A few months ago, she withdrew $300 in twenties from an ATM, and 2 were small portrait 1985s. One had to be in CH-CU condition, and I immediately gave her a colorized 20 for it. It's still in my collection today, and I just feel lucky that she withdrew those bills and not someone else who would've just spent them.

BTW, this must be a sign of the times, but I consider any dollar bill from 2003A or earlier rare. This past week at work, I've had at least $20 in ones in my drawer, and none were older than 2006. And to up the ante further, I can still say I have NEVER (since I started paying attention a year ago) received a dollar bill older than 2009 in change. I get older dollar bills from the bank when I obtain in bulk, but with any transaction that involves me spending money at a store and receiving some ones back in change, my best finds are some 2009s in dismal condition.

A bank teller told me that they refill their ATM when it runs low, and it may include customer deposited bills rather than those from an armored car, and that's how I missed some old 20s back when I got all those 1950 10 and 5 dollar bills. You're right about ones, I see about 75% 2009, 15% 2013, 8% 2006, and the remaining are anything older. Most of the 2003As I see are very worn out, but I think it would be interesting to see what my numbers are, so I'll post that the next time I get some ones from the bank. I think I'll post like this: (in addition to condition list)
Pre-2006:
2006:
2009:
2013:

I think that would be a fair way to post since I usually get 1 pre-2006 out of every 20 bills on average.