Anyone Out There Collect By Seal Color?

Many people collect by seal color but I suspect few limit their collections to only a certain color. For example there are at least of couple of collectors here who specialize in the Light Green Seal (LGS) notes.

I don't really limit myself to one particular seal color (or note type: FRN vs. Silver Cert vs. US Note, etc.) but I do really like the yellow and brown seals of the 1934/1935 silver certificates. Ah, who am I kidding? I like all the silver cert seals, including the blue!



Almost certainly, but it depends on what you mean by "a set". If you mean one of each series, I'm 6 short of a set and I'm sure there are plenty of folks here that have at least one complete series set of $2 notes (small size). Now if you want to get into star notes, bank/block sets, that gets much more challenging (and expensive!)

Good luck!

I guess what I'm getting at is there are endless ways to collect. You could collect 1 of each FRN and Silver Cert series from 1928 to 2013 and that would be currently (I think) 20 notes. A very reasonable and attainable goal.

Or you could collect one of each Federal Reserve Bank from each series from 1976-date. Things start to get interesting there. I haven't done the math to know how many notes that is in total, but for instance, for series 2009, there were notes printed for 7 FRB's. Some $2 series have all 12 FRB's, so it can get up there.

A block is defined by the leading and trailing character in the serial number. E.g, A12345678B would be block AB, A12345678* would be block A*, etc. Some dedicated folks like to collect one of each block in each series. THAT really adds up (particularly when you collect notes other than $2 notes). For $2 FRNs, I don't think collecting by block gets above 24 notes per series. But take the 2009 $1... there are 109 (standard) blocks alone in that series. Yikes!

For United States Notes, the letters in the serial have nothing to do with districts/banks and everything to do with numbering, and there are no doubt endless ways to collect those too.

Agreed - I love the "standard" LGS (the 1928-C $10, for example), but find many other TPG notes in my collection with LGS designations to be - well, inconsistent and often rather blah with little if any sense of yellow in the hue. Confirming by serial number has np appeal to me.

(Apologies to amrys)

So many options and so little spending $$.