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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have been sitting on a small lot of circulated small portrait bills for quite awhile now and that I probably will continue to sit on for quite awhile more. The question I have does it make sense to sit on these bills further, or use them to purchase other bills the kids and grandkids will have more appreciation with and of?
These series are:
$5 - 1981, 1985, 1988A, 1993, 1995
$10 - 1934A, 1963A, 1969B, 1981A, 1985, 1988A, 1990, 1993, 1995,
$20 - 1934, 1993, 1995
$100 - 1988, 1990,
I am curious to see what the responses will be.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2850 Posts |
Keep the 1934 notes and spend the rest if they aren't star notes.
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Rest in Peace
United States
7075 Posts |
 How 'circulated' are they? I'd probably keep the bills from the 60's and maybe even the 80's if they are still crisp. |
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Valued Member
United States
369 Posts |
I'd definitely keep the 1934s. If you're looking to sell them, the collector's forum at wheresgeorge.com usually responds well to small head bills especially older ones (1960s-early 1980s), though usually for just slightly over face.
Edited by half n a half
01/16/2015 9:09 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
589 Posts |
I'd keep them if I could afford to. Small portraits are hard to come by.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1116 Posts |
As of right now I am not looking to do anything with these bills. The biggest reason is just for the same reason that Groszy says.
Since I am not an expert on bill condition the best way I could realistically describe them is that overall there is obvious circulating stress with creases and some minimum fading.
Because in a way they are like land in that they're not making any more of them and my optimal expectation is that given sufficient passage of time additional value could befall them in a perfect world.
I guess that I am really keeping them for the benefit of my kids and grandkids knowing how much the younger generation is amazed by what used to be common things that are not common today at all.
I'm still amazed about the National and large size notes that used to be somewhat common when I was a kid and are totally unknown outside of the collecting community today.
I set those notes away long before I had any thought of currency collecting. They're not in perfect condition by any sense of imagination. If I were to compare them to a coin they'd most likely be considered VF or XF. But on the bright side if they want to collect currency like I'm just starting to do, they won't have to start from scratch.
So I'm keeping them for the foreseeable future really just for the pleasure of looking at them and knowing that they're put away.
Foolish - possibly.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not one foolish thing about it! IMHO. Every nice old note we see now,was put away at some point in time..
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Valued Member
United States
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I'm honestly doing a similar thing right now. I'm just a college student ATM so I don't really have that many expenses and still have some money saved up, I'm currently just holding on to all the small portraits I find. It doesn't hurt to hang on to them if I don't need to spend them, but I always have the option to spend them if need be.
Just sort of as a "because I can" thing right now to keep them.
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