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My mother works at for the post office and knows to look out for currency and coins for me. It's fun for her as well. A customer used this 1935 certificate to pay for shipping a couple months ago.  Edited by Numismax
01/26/2023 02:09 am
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Here's another oldie someone used to pay for postage 1928 Red seal. Sold on ebay for $11.50  Edited by Numismax
01/26/2023 02:09 am
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Nice finds!  |
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Got a worn out 1969-B $10 yesterday  Edited by Skippy Topaz
01/31/2023 12:41 am
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Got an worn out 1969-B $10 yesterday Outstanding! |
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The Feds had stockpiled many 1969s in vaults for emergency use. They were finally released around 1990, so those have seen relatively less circulation than other notes from that era, and thus a higher % survive. I did not know this. I remember seeing some episode of a TV show a while back where there was a disproportionately high amount of 1969 notes and there was speculation that these were D.B. Cooper's notes. |
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The Feds had stockpiled many 1969s in vaults for emergency use. They were finally released around 1990, so those have seen relatively less circulation than other notes from that era, and thus a higher % survive. Do you have any evidence to substantiate this claim ? |
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While researching the 1963 note, it appears it's a Mule Note as the back plate number is below 447 (according to the interwebs).. probably doesn't make much difference considering it's condition but still a fun extra :)
@skippy_topaz : I recently found out that I had one too. Didn't hear about this "mule" note until this month.   |
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got this the other day, really beat up but not too many 1969A around much any more. If I'm doing any math related to how many serial numbers are out there I usually use today's max of 96,000,000, but this one begins with 999 so higher ones are still floating around.  Edited by TheSerialFlorist
02/06/2023 10:40 pm
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Interesting find! |
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@TheSerialFlorist - the note you found is most likely from someone who cut out the notes from an "uncut" sheet. I found one a month ago too.
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The note you found is most likely from someone who cut out the notes from an "uncut" sheet. I would have thought the same thing until I remembered that the BEP didn't start issuing $1 FRNs in sheet form until series 1981. |
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Interesting observations! I also looked at the BEP tables...no record of FRNs going above 96M, and no record of sheets, experimental notes or anything else with that high of a serial number. The margins are neither perfectly symmetrical nor miscut (intentionally or otherwise), so if someone cut them from a sheet it's not obvious. So ...yeah a quandary! I wish it were in better condition.
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Prior to series 1974 serial #s ran through 99999999, with the note with serial number 00000000 replaced with a star note. During the 1974 series, the high number was set at 99840000, which ran through middle of series 1981, when it was adjusted again to 99200000, and finally to the 96000000 high during series 1988.
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It looks like eight out of twelve districts had runs up to serial number 99999999.  |
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