1995 $1 Notes

1962penny,
There seems to be a lot of "hoarders" out there now a days thinking that things dated before 2000 is old and valuable.

I am always telling them that something like a run of the mill 1995 $ 1.00 FRN is worth a $ 1.00, next year it may only be worth .90 cents.

They seen to think that it should be worth much more that a $ 1.00 because it's almost 20 years old and does not have that many wrinkles, creases, and not much dirt on it.

When I ask them how many new unc. ones they would like at $ 1.10 each they back away. I cant figure them out, other than their not really currency collectors and have no intention of starting a currency collecting, they only seem to be interested in the "folding" kind of currency.

It's somewhat odd, they seen to think that the creased, wrinkled, dirty 1990's note they have is worth something but when I offer them a new one for .10 cents they back off.
Bill Collector

1962penny,
I assume that you are a Coin collector, what would you do if someone came to you with a "old" 1995 Penny,
Bill Collector

I'm sure that most collectors that know about such things would check for such things, same for Currency collectors, but chances are it's just like the others that are out there, nothing more that a penny or a dollar.
Bill Collector

Like you, I have never understand why anybody would want to hoard common bills from the 1990s, but I admit it may be a generational thing. I grew up in the 70s-80s and those bills just look like perfectly ordinary spending money to me. But I obsessively hoard any silver certificates or red seal legal tender notes I find, regardless of condition, because they stopped printing those before I was born and they must therefore be rare and valuable...

I just found the thread I assume the op is referring to on the Series 1995 FRN's at

https://goccf.com/t/158031

And while they are NOT web-press notes, they are high grade 3-digit serial number notes, also very collectible..

A little research shows the notes shown were printed in April 1997 at the Fort Worth, Texas branch of the BEP.

Please don't forget that a Web Press note is not a normal run of the mill 1995 FRN. Even so, if it was like most I've seen in circulation, creased, wrinkled, and somewhat dirty, it's still not worth much of anything.

I'm sure it's something that a child would may want to hang onto but no matter how long you keep something like that it's worth and value in a currency collection is just about a $1.00, being that it has no real collectors value it may be not wort as much 5 years down the road as it is today.

I will be the first to admit that I have a lot of worthless FRN's in my collection, other than there face value, but they are in at least AU + condition and fill a hole in the series year collection.
Bill Collector