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It's just not fair dang it. Pulled this guy from work. Lucky for me I'm a manager and get to count down 12 drawers each night and handle about $2,000-$10,000 in cash every day...sometimes a LOT more

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 Posted 07/16/2008  05:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You still got a liar's poker note.
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It's still a binary note.
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erm.. what's a binary note?
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Well as Maxwell Smart would say, Missed it by that much". Nice.
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D'Oh!

But still a nice grab, IMHO.


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erm.. what's a binary note?
Only two numbers, in this case, 7 and 8. A true Binary would be 0 and 1.
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Thanks for the clarification, jbuck!
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 Posted 07/16/2008  12:03 pm  Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
So would there be any sort of premium for one of these guys?

I don't really collect US notes but I do swipe the ones I think have some poential value like stars and odd/low serials
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What makes a binary note so special?
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Coinwhiz1776,
Odds are you're going to have more than two numbers in the serial #. It's uncommon to have only two and very rare to have only one.
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I hope my math is right... feel free to correct me!

With 12 reserve banks, for a given series, there are only 108 unary notes (there would be 120 if serial # 00000000 was used, is it?)

For a given series, there are only 136,620 (if my math is right) binary notes.

Given that a series could have up to 100 million notes issued, those numbers seem rather rare!
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Then unary and binary notes compose ~0,14% of all the notes. In other words 1 in 700 notes is of interest.

I read that the 00000000 number is not used.
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Odds are you're going to have more than two numbers in the serial #. It's uncommon to have only two and very rare to have only one.

Okay. Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't know that was so rare! Does anybody know if they carry any type of premium?
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Now here is a 0 and 1 binary note that I found:
78777777....sooooo-Close!
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The whole thing strikes me as rather odd. In a series of unique numbers, every number is equally rare. The unary/binary note relies on perception of rarity.

It strikes me as being as audacious as the notion that your lucky numbers are better than 1-2-3-4-5-6 in a lotto drawing. They aren't, of course, but that doesn't stop anyone from thinking that they are.
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Wow, what a ridiculously lucky find. Putting that thing up for sale?
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