1954 2$ Bill Sequential With Unique Serial Number

Sorry, no extra value.

Hi,

Hi,

thanks for the info!

Which auctions are you talking about?

I see 1954 1$ bills 2 sequenced numbers selling for $15 consistently on ebay (not graded but uncirculated)... not sure where you see 1954 Canadian 2$ bills selling for $3.75 each... ill buy them if they are that cheap, please let me know where these can be bought for that price, ill snap them up asap.


thanks!

Thanks for the CCF, I did check and there have been no Canadian 2$ bills sold recently or are currently on auction anyhow thanks for the info.

best regards,

there is definitely a premium for canada bills in sequence.. it will all depend on condition, as to how much you will actually get, for them. if they are high grade you can expect 5-8 times face value. if they are lower grade, than at most 2-3 times face value..

Dear Coolblue, Here's the scoop on special serial numbers. I learned to play b*** s*** poker in the early seventies, when we had plenty of one and two dollars bills (minimum wage was about $3 an hour). There were no scratch tickets, no lotteries, no online poker, no casinos, you had a real life, so you played cards all night on the weekend, pizza and beer and other stimulants, and pilfering a dozen donuts on Sunday morning from behind the supermarket (they actually left the delivery outside).

During the week you could have a couple of rounds of poker in the lunchroom, or in brasserie after the company softball game, by using the serial numbers on the bills. You could do it by using only 5 digits from the bill or with multiple players, guess the best hand you could make from all the bills. So if you have a bill with 7-1's, your sitting pretty up to 7 aces.

You would check any bills you got to try to find multiples, even a straight, that help YOUR chances. I still have one that has a heavy crease because I always had it in my wallet.



This game started way before my time, and keeping certain numbers has grown into a part of the hobby. 40-50 years ago, your bill would have been a good one for poker. Since the betting scene has changed, so has the type of number collected. Solid numbers are the best still, while the mirror, straights, and radar are the other favorite ones. A 3 digit with multiples like yours would be very easy to find while the aforementioned are pretty darn hard to find, the solid, downright impossible without connections.