Series 1914 Red Seals

Great set - especially love the $5.

Yeah, as the denominations get higher in this series the cost goes way up, which means I can't afford as nice examples. I really wish I could own a set that was all as nice as the $5, but that's life...

PS - This begs the question, of course, why the printing of US Notes (all with red seals) went merrily on!

I got a really really good deal on a $5 1914 red seal in F grade..

The iPhone just doesn't like close-ups. I don't like using my phone for pictures because it makes the note look so much worse then it is, and that really isn't fair to Mr. Lincoln.. lol (I gotta get a copier)

$90

Sometimes you have to capitalize on peoples mistakes. I walked into a gold and silver shop to ask if they had any currency about 2 weeks ago, which I do every couple months or so, and they had nothing but way overpriced extremely common silver certs and red seal $2's but on top of the pile was this nice 1928 $10 Gold cert. They had no clue where it came from and had no price on it. A few days later I followed up. They still had no price on it so I insisted they put a price on it so I could possibly buy it. On there own account they looked in a reference guide (don't know for sure possibly a warman's) and note that this bill was in very high VF grade at the least (it was nice) and the guy goes, "well they are $140 in VF and this is certainly not quite a very fine note!" (Gotta love inexperience) So after making some calls they finally say 100 bucks. I played the ehhh I don't know about that game looking at it for a while and said how bout $85 they asked if I could do $90 and knowing it was a deal I pretended to remain unsure but closed the deal at $90 walking away with a smile. So while at work after lunch with the note on hand I'm thinking to myself "hmm, I don't care for this note all that much even though I got a good deal I'll check out Rosehill after work." So I did.

Now Rosehill is a great place. I come in often and they are good to me. I never pay asking price and always bundle deals. Now they are a COIN shop, so as usual there currency buyer is sub par experience wise at best. Sometimes they have great deals with notes underpriced and sometimes notes are too overpriced. So I showed him the gold cert and said how much will you give me in trade and he replied "$135 in trade) so I saw this red seal five that was priced good at $150 (good deal at $150 even)And said well how about this and the deal was done. So I got this red seal for $90

It pays to know what you are doing sometimes.