New To Currency

Bamiddle.

You should certainly read articles in this forum to start with. There are plenty of books and web sites chock full of info too.

Condition is very important. If your small faces are worn, probably not much reason to keep unless they are older, scarce or have a good SN.

I would suggest starting with an FRN collection, which means modern US. Lots and lots to learn and collect, and you can do so on the cheap even with CU notes. If you start with $1 notes you will be occupied for quite some time, particularly if you extend into silver certificates.

Lots to learn about the series, signatures, printing locations, etc.

Check your notes for stars, webs, crazy SN's, errors.

I haven't ventured out of U.S. moderns yet but there is a HUGE world out there.... good luck and have fun!

Everyone has a different objective really, and how you collect is up to you.

I worked in the states for a while when the notes where changing from small heads to large heads, and was back there once colourised notes came out so my first target was each denomination in small head, large head and colourised. After that I decided I wanted each denomination in each colour seal so I added the Africa yellow seals, red seal notes and some blue ones. Then I decided I wanted some earlier large notes (1917 series, 1899 series) and recently I got interested in the fractional notes.

This gives me a reasonably diverse collection of notes but of course why stop there, there are gold notes, colonial notes and all sorts of other things to collect (personally I don't have much interest in serial numbers but lots of people like them)

My main collection is English notes and I have almost completed a collection of every type and denomination with every signature. If you collect signatures on US bills I am sure that would keep you busy for the next ten years.

There are many different ways to collect, make a start and I am sure you will find a method that suits you.

All thanks for the feedback and info!

I'm gonna have to pick up a book here in short order. I wandered into the bank today per my weekly stop and the banker had 5050 in old stuff. Needless to say I took it to atleast flip through it. from a quick flip quite a bit of stuff from the 60s including star notes.