Noodling Notes...reasonable Results...are You In?

$10 notes ha, no 2008 issue, pitty.

i have
$100s in large quantities 1000+ notes
$50s in medium quantities 100+ notes
$20s in small quantities less than 100 Notes
$5s in small quantities less than 100 Notes

Not since the early through mid 80's. (Decent sized cash payrolls along with client cash counting.)
Now days just looking at the few that head my way.
But would dearly love to be in the position to do it again. (Hence, No but I'd like to).
I recall one time (around 1982/83) getting a whole payroll (of which my pay was around 3%) all in $10 COA notes that were going to be sent back to the reserve bank except the bank was running short on notes and had to give them out. It just about drove me nuts working out which ones I wanted to keep at the time.

I haven't. I don't have a lot of time to look through coins which are my primary interest so notes miss out in that respect.

Banknotelover; they're some awesome scores. I treasure the JC98's. But all those notes are both holders or sellers. If the JC98's up for grabs, let me know, cause my JC98's could also use some more family members.

Goatieman, those jc's are keeps for me at the moment, since I don't have any other examples. They are so hard to get.

I believe those are the only examples I have ever seen in 'circulation'. Hm.. I have not come across the MD08 $50 once, despite finding all other prefixs. Oh the other which is near impossible is $20 PE. I can usually find approx. 5 1994 $20 per $30,000 of $20 notes usually in fine or below and usually prefixes like M, O, but never P or PE. DA95/96 both near impossible to find, and if I do, they are always beaten up. That's why if anyone has a UNC PE, I would pay pretty much whether they want for it. I have sorted though so much cash, and I have only ever found a single one.

If I sought though around 50-70k of $50's I can usually find 3-4 vg95, 5-7 v prefixes, maybe 1 if I am lucky of the jc97,98, a couple of the da96, etc.

I'm not as brain smart as Goatie to be able to reel off exact figures, stats and ratio's but I can roughly tell anyone, going from my experience what you would expect to find. Oh.. and the $100 test prefixes.. it's no wonder the book price and sold results are far apart, since they are very easy to come by, even the an and cs, I can pickup a high grade test note, since the handling of them is much less compared to the other denominations and there are so many out there for some reason ?!? even the first or last, easy as pie, compared to any of the other prefixes I mentioned... I know the figures on the reserve bank serial info show 999999 648001 for the an to cs96, depicting that it is quite rare, etc. but they seem easy to grab, without trouble.

Banknotelover: $50 MD08 will be almost impossible to find in circulation. Only 49,999 were printed. It's most likely that all got purchased from the RBA during their annual first/last prefix sale.
As for $50 JC98; only 39,999 were printed & back then people didn't know how many were printed or what the last prefix would be.
JC97 $50; had a print run of 485,999 which was a pretty medium sized print run.
I agree with VG95's being more common. There seemed to be a lot floating around, but over time they are becoming harder. They had a print run of 379,999.

I guess the hardest things with $5's, $10's & $20's is that they are so heavily circulated, whereas the $50's & $100's have probably been put away & are generally less circulated because they are a larger face value.

With the $100 test notes, as you said, such an easy note to find. The funny thing is that the last prefix for $100 in 1996 was that there were only 242,499 last prefix JK96, where each of the test notes AN & CS both had print runs of 351,999 (over 45% more printed of each of the first/last test prefixes). The book prices show JK96 to only be worth about 25-30% of what AN96 & CS96 are worth.
The equilibrium is nowhere to be seen as, it's all about the balance of what people want. The more notes are wanted, the mort they are worth!

Okay, I did the same quantity as last time, 500 & results were:
The results were fairly decent to be honest; From 500:
1 x AA06 (FP)
4 x AA07 (FP)
1 x Radar aUNC (one minor curled crease, so not hugely defined)
1 x Radar Repeater aUNC (only one tiny indent)
1 x Repeater
1 x High print minor error
2 x low serial (less than 000500), the lower 000380
Lots of fresh runs. I kept a run of 939099 & 939100
0 x 2012 (I was hunting for them, because of that recent test note? post)

As for the radars:
To find two in 500 @ is 1:250 (is very high especially considering one of them was a readar repeater & the fact that both were in aUNC condition.

The two radars & the 099-100 run were kept, the rest go back into the pond!

Bye..bye.