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Valued Member
United States
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I just looked through my safe and realized that in the past 3 years I have pulled exactly 3,669 dollars from my cash register at work. These include bills made before 1995 as well as star notes. I have seen links showing charts for the star notes, but I don't understand how to read them to see if the serial numbers I have are worth any kind of a premium, or if they should be tossed back into the wild. If they aren't rare might there be a small premium on them if I wrapped them in 50 dollar or even 100 dollar increments and sold them to another collector? All are circulated but some don't have folds in them. Same question about the not rare pre 1995 regular circulation notes. Might I get a small premium if I sold off more then a few bills, and put them together as a package of a 50 dollars for singles and maybe hundred of a few hundred for the other denominations? Once again all circulated some nicer then others Any incite would be great. The only bills that I know will have some kind of premium are (all circulated with some folds no rips or tears unless mentioned) -1935 E $1 silver certificate -1963 $5 Red Seal -1934 $100(lime green seal) -a bunch of 1950's $5 $10 and $20 dollar bills (might be worth something) -1934c $10 dollar bill, but it has a small piece of the corner missing and has "355" written in blue pen on it. (doubt it's worth anything) What is "sellable" or "keepable" for my soon to be downsized collection and what is bank "depositable" Thanks guys  |
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Valued Member
United States
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I just started last summer with my currency block number collection. I am saving all of the old stuff as well, and am amassing quite the collection. I have told myself that I am just doing it to keep me interested when looking at my change, in bills. I have a bunch of people looking for stuff at work, and will only pay face value for it. I am doing it out of convenience, so if I ever want to stop, I can just spend them, and not be out anything. I have been looking online, and at coin stores, and such, and have noticed that there doesn't seem to be much premium on currency, even the older ones.  Its just a fun hobby for me. Whatever premium that you get from your pre 1985 bills will obviously depend on who you find to sell them to. There don't seem to be many bill collectors out there, and the serious ones that would pay a premium, would want unc, or not with folds. Would you want to take the time to find that one person who would pay the premium on those bills, all be it, not very much of a premium. Thats just my opinion.  Edited by coinmap
01/29/2012 6:33 pm
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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
Being that I cant seem to find any of the "rare" notes I really need I would be interested in a collection of Web Notes, don't need anything special, no fancy numbers, stars, or anything like that, just a nice set of the three Web notes that were issued.
A 1988-A, 1993, and a 1995. I know there not worth much but just trying to fill holes in the collection, only thing I ask is that they are in AU or better condition, may even settle for them in XF if there good looking no problem notes. Like I said just trying to fill in a few holds in the collection.
Regards
The Bill Collector
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01/29/2012 9:02 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Interesting serial #s are like radar (i.e., 12344321), date (i.e., 20001130), ladder (i.e., 13455689), or repeater/pattern #s (i.e., 11112222). If you have some FRNs with a low printage and they are near CU, they would be worth saving. If the FRN has any tears, holes, or wear that removes some ink, then I wouldn't save them. I find stars on FRNs and if they aren't near CU, I just let them circulate, unless the printage is really low. Like a couple million or less, but I've never found any that rare. I'm just not lucky enough, but since you are at a cash register, you see a ton of notes each day, so you are lucky. I used to work at a gas station in the 80s and I would find silver certificates that I kept, even though they were only about VF+. This site will help determine the low printages: http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/Good luck. You have a lot of research to do, to see if they are worth keeping or not. |
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United States
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@googoo
You mentioned you have star notes. Many collectors look for star notes that come from runs of 640,000 or less. A great web site to help you determine the run size your notes come from is mycurrencycollection.com. You can enter the serial# and the series it was issued from and it will tell you which run it came from and how many were issued. Stars coming from runs of 320,000 are in high demand because only 320,000 were produced and much fewer have survived today.
Also as the bill collector mentioned series 1988-a, 1993 and 1995 produced a lot of notes so there is not a premium on those series unless they were web notes which were produced in all three series as a test to a new way of printing bills that never made it, but these bills are more valuable because less were produced. They are recognizable by the single number used for the front and back plate.
And last but not least are the Fort Worth 295 error that are found in the 1995 series in which a smaller then normal back plate number(#295) was used on the bills produced in Forth Worth. This is one error note that is increasing in popularity.
Just somethings to look for when you are going through your collection to help add value.
Derek
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Sad thing about paper is that community is not that big and ebay is so dang expensive. Hard to see a premium when you pay 10% + in fees. Only makes sense to move a high end piece where you can neglect the commissions. If there are other market places for I'd like to find them. |
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