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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Always nice to stumble across lost money.  |
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Moderator
 United States
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Indeed!  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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United States
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Thank you! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That had to bring a smile to your face jbuck...looks like 2020 might be a good year.
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United States
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It sure did and it does make for a good start.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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I got these at bank when I requested 10 singles last week--They are PERFECT and look Uncirculated--1969 D all in sequence order.--Any value or just nice to have?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If they're all uncirculated, definitely keep.
The fact that they're all crisp made me think of a Numb3rs episode I saw a few years back: Could this be some of the money D.B. Cooper took?
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I got these at bank when I requested 10 singles last week--They are PERFECT and look Uncirculated--1969 D all in sequence order. Very nice! Keep!  |
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Valued Member
United States
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 I like the DB Cooper thought.  Without a doubt I would press them out, put them in protection and save forever! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Without a doubt I would press them out, put them in protection and save forever! Will you please elaborate on this quote ? |
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Valued Member
United States
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Sure, I like to take bills I'm going to keep and do the following: I get a very light stream of Luke warm warm water running, to get any surface dirt off. (I don't want foreign matter to get pressed into the bill) I lightly wipe the bill with my fingers under the water for a few seconds. Then I dry off any excess water. Then I take a sheet of clean printer paper, and fold it in half, and put the bill in it. Then I open up one of my unused hard back books and put the bill, in the folded sheet of paper, into the book. Then I put two more big heavy books on top of that book, then I put a heavy Ammo can that has 5000 pennies in it, on top of those books. I leave it there for several weeks. Then I open it up and take the bills out and put them in sleeves, then in top loaders. I find this process gets out any superficial bends, and it's flattened out nicely. It doesn't remove creases, and obviously can't repair slight tears you find in circulated currency, but it's easier to insert them into sleeves and holders. Just plain water can also get off light pencil marks, and even the yellow Counterfeit Detection pen markings you sometimes find on your circulation currency. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Interesting, thanks.
Do you also collect coins, and if so, please tell me about your cleaning process for them.
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Valued Member
United States
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I do collect coins, but I don't clean them.
I've only cleaned coins (namely heavily circulated wheat cents) that I've determined were so bad that they didn't have any numismatic value, and I couldn't determine what they were, i.e. date and mint mark. Or if on one of those corroded ones I thought I saw some other anomaly, again after determining there was no numismatic value in that state, those I would try and clean up enough to identify.
So I don't have a coin cleaning plan.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've found several small head bills since my last post that were saved by bank tellers, but this one counts as a circulation find!
Customer in front of me at Wawa (man in 60s-70s with NY accent) was digging through his wallet (that appeared to have no cash in it) to pay for some coffee and finally pulled a bill folded in 4ths out of a hidden compartment. I could see it was a small head $10, and when I changed my payment so I'd get a $10 as change, the cashier initially tried to give me a new $10 already in the drawer but obliged when I asked if I could have "that old looking $10 the guy ahead of me paid with" It turns out that bill was not only an old style $10, it was a series 1950! I've always wondered how old bills re-enter circulation, and since I saw who paid with it I'm wondering how long he was holding onto that bill! (Guess coffee was REALLY important to him if he was willing to part with a bill that old)
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