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 I picked up a brick of Two's from the bank today. I quickly hid it away and went out to my vehicle where I took it out and looked at the serial to see what I had. My first thought was well, at least it has a radar in it. Then I started thinking about what else there would be. A TON of trinary numbers (I threw that in for zeewool) and a couple of notes you could pass off as ladders 57-58-88-89 and 57-58-89-90 not a true ladder, but someone would buy it. Well I didn't know what I had until I got home and opened it up. There is a wet ink transfer that fades in and out through 2 of the straps. See the backwards 2 in the lower right?  Now I'm trying to figure out what I should do with them (sell them individually, as a strap, as an entire brick, in groups of 5, etc.) and I'm welcoming any input about the subject. Edited by Nickelman
08/13/2010 9:10 pm
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I think trying to sell the whole brick would be to hard. Maybe try groups of 3 or 5 consecutive, and dont sell them all at once. Or you will flood the market with them.
Just my opinion.
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Hmmm... good point about flooding. I'm thinking the whole thing wouldn't be the way to go either.
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Neat!! OK I'm showing my age!
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Glad that you posted this picture Nickelman. I have often wondered if all ten stacks will be sequential when packed via the COPE-PAK machines. It seems that is the way of it, so if this is correct, your serial numbers will be L57588001A through L57589000A inclusive, correct? Forget about the possibilities of solid numbers, they won't be there. Radars? Only one, unless you bend the definition a bit. Binaries? Nope. Trinaries? There should be a few of them, limited to 5s, 7s, and 8s. That is great though, because as everybody knows, 'trinaries' are the best of the best when it comes to 'fancy numbers'. By the way, thanks so much, I am very flattered that you thought of me when referring to trinaries.  Here is a trinary that I am pretty sure you haven't seen yet:  Edited to add: As far as the 'brick' goes, I think that you should sell the notes one by one. I am sure that you will be able to come up with terms and names for each note based on the uniqueness of the serial number. trinary, quadnary, pentnary, hexnary, etc. You might even get creative with an eraser or some ink.  Don't worry about flooding anything, these green seals are 'rare', everyone knows that. As soon as collectors find out that you have them, they will be pestering you to sell at 5-10 times face (a mere fraction of their true worth). Edited by zeewool
08/13/2010 11:01 pm
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It seems that is the way of it, so if this is correct, your serial numbers will be L57588001A through L57589000A inclusive, correct? Correct. No stars in the lot so completely consecutive. I did a count and there are about 60 of the ink xfers. Most are just the lower right corner, but some have the lower left corner as well. Also note the ink blotches on the first serial number and seal. Maybe the BEP farmed this job out to preschoolers.  Oh, and btw nice tranny you got there  Edited by Nickelman
08/14/2010 12:35 am
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Nice find nickelman! Quick question though. Do you just walk into your bank and ask for a brick like that? Or do you have to put in an order. Also its random what the serial numbers will be right?
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No stars in the lot so completely consecutive. I have been interested in older notes (exclusively), but thought I had a basic understanding of how the numbering went on this new stuff (and I consider 1963 and up to be 'new'). So just what would give you cause to even think that there could be a star in this batch? |
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Quick question though. Do you just walk into your bank and ask for a brick like that? Or do you have to put in an order. Also its random what the serial numbers will be right? See here for your answer: https://goccf.com/t/69557#552855Quote:
So just what would give you cause to even think that there could be a star in this batch? What would give you cause to think none of the notes would be errors? |
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Also note the ink blotches on the first serial number and seal. Maybe the BEP farmed this job out to preschoolers.
Ha ha! I work for a print company. We bid on a job recently to print a book but lost it to the Florida Correctional System (I guess they make license plates AND run a print shop). Maybe the FCS printed these, as well. After all, a counterfeiter's got to make a mistake to get caught! |
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but lost it to the Florida Correctional System Yeah, free labor does allow them to stick it to the working folk that actually have to pay for labor. |
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Looks like i'll be watching ebay for those notes! Hehehe, jk. |
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What would give you cause to think none of the notes would be errors? A basic understanding of how the BEP's COPE-PAK system operates. |
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zeewool please explain I'm not following you.
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If the top note on your BEP brick is not a star note, the remaining 999 under it will not be either. A BEP brick containing one star note on top will have 999 star notes under it. Star notes are not intermingled with regular notes when printed / packaged by COPE-PAK.
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Thats interesting Zeewool, because at the end of my brick last month I found two stars at the very last two. It was 1,000 1$ bills.
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