Block Or District Set Collectors

https://goccf.com/t/17800

Is this what your talking about? If so, these are the only ones I have, and I'm getting rid of them.

Please explain, I do not understand what you mean by "collecting blocks". I collect currency and would like to get more involved with some other people.

When notes are printed they carry the Federal Reserve District designation like A for Boston and B for New York etc... The prefex for each of the banks are always the same. So notes printed for the Federal Reserve bank of Boston have serial numbers that always begin with "A" The suffix letter at the end of the serial number changes in theory after 100 million notes have been issued, in practice it is less because the higher numbers are reserved for sheet notes and also sometimes the Fed doesn't print an entire block. Hence, the AA block, AB block...
Block sets are just another way of collecting. I started by putting together a CU district set and eventually started to collect 1-5 CU notes from each block of the 1995 series. Some collectors like myself take it a step farther and collect notes with serial number with the same last couple of numbers. Collecting a CU block set works best when several people do it and help each other. Since I am collecting a few notes from each block my budget won't allow me to collect complete straps. I usually just trade a 5-10 notes at a time. Hope this sheds some light on block collecting
To do this you have to ask for brand new bills when you go to the bank and that is usually a hit or miss. I've learned what banks in my area never carry new notes except at Xmas and we have a few that usually have them at least a few time per month.

Basically the way we do this is to start a list of people in various parts of the country who will collect CU notes at their bank. We aren't talking about big bucks or even complete straps, $10 or $20 each time, just enough to spread around with the other collectors. So, you go to the bank and pick up the CU $1s and then you post what block and numbers you got. We send them out to each other, sometimes one person gets a new block every week while others come up empty handed almost every time. We just share with each other because things can dry up in one area and go crazy in another area very quickly. For example, In Arizona where I live, I might go a few months with no CU notes available at any of the banks I frequent and then all of a sudden every bank is getting new block weekly for several consecutive months. Another scenario is that my bank gets a certain block say the LG block and they continue to have LGs for months on end and nothing else. The point is that things change frequently and I always share new notes when I get them because I know others will get lucky sooner or later. I do this with other collectors and I just keep an envelope with their name on it and add to it whenever I get the opportunity. We exchange envelopes every few weeks and just keep a running tally.

So, is their any interest?

Jim
It looks like its just me and you. Let me know the next time you get CU notes at the bank and we can make a trade of 10 x $1. I'll check my bank today and then when I'm visiting another town next week I'll check the bank there too. Maybe if we start this up we can generate some interest.