Notes To Collect

Or you can even hunt down your own personal significant numbers like initials and birth dates.

But in the end just collect what interests you.

Larena...I'd keep it, it's a nice high serial & also considered to be what some call a semi-solid, being two lots of identical numbers e.g 111222 222888 etc.

Also, I'm glad to see you enter the notes game!

Baanos, I like your work.
Makes it all more interesting.
But a lot of these aren't really relevant with 6 (main) serials that are used (then again in Australia, there were 7 digit notes in predecimal & our current notes can be considered as 8-digit, but it's hard playing the 8 digit game because the first two digits are the years the notes are produced in:
Doubles: Sequences such as 330088 are considered doubles.
Bookends: When the same sequence of digits appears at the beginning and at the end of the serial, like 1039103.
Million numbered notes: Not possible for modern Australian currency but I guess 100000 is worth keeping.

So looking at the more recent Canadian banknotes, they have 3 letters & 7 numbers e.g ABC 1234567
I like banknotes that can spell proper words rather than;
Two letter words such as: AM, BE, HE, HI, IF or acronyms...CD, ID, I'm etc...but sometimes depending on how big the print run is we may not even get many words.

Baanos, a question for you; what would you call &/or consider the following serials as?
003636
008989

Also, would the following be considered doubles?
326532 (in a 6-digit game)
10282102 (8-digit game)

I have seen a rotator or two whilst looking, but I was thinking...would anyone find that interesting or is it just me? They just look so good...just like the numbers that make them up 69...I think it speaks for itself.

Rotator is a radar word! Spelt the same backwards & forwards, just like radar.

I think a lot of you know what I have in my note collection. I've been lucky enough to FIND in circulation:
A first prefix with an extremely low serial:
AA06 000004
A very low 8-digit radar:
AK06 000060
A 4-digit repeater:
CL06 270627
First prefix repeater:
AA05 271271
First prefix radar:
AA07 581185
Last test prefix radar ladder:
CS96 765567
Last Prefix radar ladder:
DA03 123321
Ladder serial:
CG06 123456
Two digit repeater:
BK08 131313
Nice numbered radar repeater:
CF06 767767
A couple semi-solids:
EK06 555666 & GK06 888999
A very high serial:
JA07 999953
Interesting (similar) serial's:
WKZ 988899
CC98 888988
CA98 099888
Visited Disneyland when I was ten, 1 Disney Dollar serial number:
A02030405A (these are properly serialed notes)

Notes that I've PAID for:
Solid serial & 8-digit radar consecutive
BK98 888888 & BK98 888889
Solid first prefix:
AA05 777777
One pound 8-digit radar:
HE 16 755761
Five pound full radar (7-digit):
S0 798970
Bunch of varied serial $10's:
CM06 987789, CH06 989898 & CH06 989999
Old papers:
BGY 448448
DAA 655556
DAX 111222
DKF 633336 (As part of consecutive 633331-633340

Notes I would love to find:
Any prefix with
99 999999
11 111111
12 345678
10 987654
98 765432
? 000001

I'd love my initials with my birthday:
CG06 031982
The closest I've come is CG06 030054 (Dad's birthyear is 1954, so the 54 made for a good keepsake).

I should stop ranting on as I tend to do at this time of the night...& it's only 7:37pm

For some reason doubles aren't relevant in Australia. I'm not really a fan of them, unless if they were ladder doubles which are basically the only semi-solids that I've kept.

I'd love a 112233 or a 998877 serial if I did doubles, I'm sure if I stumbled on a ladder double I would definitely keep it.

Tave, welcome to CCF and yes, your note is well worth keeping !

Hi tave, to CCF!

Thanks for posting Basil, made for an interesting read.

If you think we've got troubles then check out these links attached, they're amazing. Until I had chased this up, I had no idea that the North Koreans had counterfeited US $100 bills to help pay for their missile program.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index....=va&aid=8919
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FJ0dO3kH2s

So do notes that have special serial numbers appreciate in value over time?

It struck me that, unlike other notes and coins, more solids and radars are being made every year, so the supply is actually increasing.