Bill Searching From Banks

Must be nice to have a connection at a bank to notify you about good stuff. Good for you & those sound like nice notes.

Searching a few hundred notes goes pretty quick and is a little expensive on the initial outlay. Searching a few hundred coins might take a while. I guess that's why I haven't tried note searching. I might for s change of pace.

I search $1s and $2s. I've tried searching $5s, but that gets expensive and I'd rather have five times as many ones. I look for special serial numbers, star notes, and web notes. I'm working on a set of $2 star notes from all twelve districts from 1976. The $1 has too many series for me to keep up with. Of course I'd notice the red or blue seal notes, but don't expect to find any.

-wheatiefan

I regularly pick up straps of $1 and $2 bills from the bank as that I'm actively involved in https://www.wheresgeorge.com and that's how I acquire bills to enter, mark, and spend.

Another reason for going thru $2 straps is that once in a great while I will encounter a $2 red seal. I'm also trying to complete a Federal Reserve Bank set of the 2003A $2 bills.

I have, only once, found a silver certificate in a $1 strap. That was about two years ago.

One thing I specifically look for in $1 and $2 straps is "ugly money" (see https://www.uglymoney.com ) that is, bills where someone doctored the portrait or wrote/stamped something on it. $2 bills tend to be graffiti magnets and I think my weirdest deuce was where someone was writing out a "best wishes on your upcoming transplant" greeting to someone.

I think one reason for my fascination with defaced currency is that when I was in high school and college, I really enjoyed defacing currency myself. On some bills I would keep writing things on them until there was no more room to write. On others I would simply add dark sunglasses and/or a beard to the portrait.

mrak,
I have a nice collection of Web notes that I got from circulation, must be around two hundred notes. And I don't know if any one gave you a welcome to CCF so.....
John1

Web notes were an experiment to reduce costs in printing $1 bills. As of now $1 bills are printed in 32 note sheets and have to be hand fed. What the web notes were were a roll of paper automagically fed into a printing machine and ran continuously like newspapers. Thus, more notes were produced cheaper and faster.

However, there was a problem with the machines (and I think the paper quality, too!) so the experiment was scrapped.

More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_notes

Cool! My experience is that tellers won't turn loose of the loose red seals. I once had one show me a series 1928 $2 bill, and she wouldn't sell it to me.