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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How many notes do you have to search to find a Y block? I'm sure the answer will vary, but I have been searching for a few months and have looked through a LOT of bills, easily into the tens of thousands. I was beginning to think they were among the legends sort of like Big Foot or the Lock Ness Monster. Well I have found Nessi!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1285 Posts |
These are tough (V, W, X and Y) and not sure how many realize these are difficult to come by. Not that they have a great premium now, but someday maybe as I "do not" think the BEP will go this high in the future as more and more are going towards debit cards. I have a few of each and these show up in streaks. BTW, I have not found any in a while.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i found one last week and also a web note.first one in a couple of months.i have about 20 y blocks setting in a drawer.thinking of maybe selling some of them soon. later greg
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United States
458 Posts |
I've found 7 Y-blocks so far in about 6,000 notes searched. Still have not found any webs...
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1397 Posts |
I never actually searched for blocks prior to a couple of months ago. But had to look through what seemed like WAY too many to find it. I found a very nice web note well before the Y. I've been in some what of a dry spell as of late, but today I found a low serial (I consider low any note with 4 leading zeros), 2 War Nickels, and a 1930 Buffalo. I forgot to check the buffalo to see if it was a P or an S lol. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Found this one today, can't decide if I want to save it or not...  |
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Why would a 1995 $1 Y block from New York be any harder to find than a G block from the same district? The BEP printed in excess of a billion notes for each of 10 of the 12 districts, and well over 2.3 billion each for New York and San Fransisco. Is it maybe just the odds of finding a Y out of all of the other suffixes that makes them 'seem' elusive?
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United States
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The reason why they are more rare is because not every series makes it that high. I have a bunch of $1 notes sitting on my desk and just arranged them by block, not by series, by block. This is the resulting count:
A - 26
B - 15
C - 11
D - 24
E - 20
F - 20
G - 15
H - 13
I - 7
J - 20
K - 10
L - 19
M - 18
N - 11
O - Not Circulated
P - 6
Q - 6
R - 27
S - 3
T - 1
U - 0
V - 0
W - 0
X - 0
Y - 0
Z - Not Circulated
* - 1
Notice everything from T block on.
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Yes Nick, understood. Try doing the same thing with all notes being of the same series and the same district 1995 New York or 1995 San Fransisco. I venture to say that your results would be very much different. I think that you might find that the Y block will be as prevalent as any other.
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United States
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I think that you might find that the Y block will be as prevalent as any other. I agree that any series that goes completely through all the blocks would be equally available. My point is just that not all series do so and that makes the W-X-Y blocks a LOT harder to find, and for me a real treat when I do. I have been toying with the idea of doing some block collecting, but as of now haven't put anything in motion. |
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Sounds like it could be entertaining, for a short while, but unless district or series are part of the equation, they very soon will be, as you have already found your Y note.
I was unaware that you had unspecified parameters (like only green seal FRN) for this Y block thing. If you were to lift that caveat, you will find ZZ blocks as well, as there is a whole lot more to U.S. paper money than just green seal FRNs.
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United States
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there is a whole lot more to U.S. paper money than just green seal FRNs. Yes but people tend to work with what they have and the customers that spend money in my store RARELY spend much else. Although one did drop a beat up silver cert in one of my machines the other day. But alas, that is a once every 5 year sort of thing. I realize that inside our current economic cage we have built for ourselves that our money is fast becoming worthless. We will eventually suffer the same fate as the European countries before switching to the Euro. Now I know that some would say look at what the Euro is now worth, but I guarantee you it is worth more for a country like Italy than the Lira was. Last time I visited Europe (which was before the Euro btw) I exchanged money for the various currencies. The teller at the bank counted me out 50,000 and 100,000 Lira notes, the exchange rate at the time was about 1300 Lira to the dollar. A somewhat funny/depressing story about that. I was on a bus all night going from Germany to Italy. In the morning we stopped at a place where I went in to buy a cup of coffee. I handed the cashier the smallest note (50,000 Lira) I had. She started yelling at me in Italian (I don't speak Italian) so I had no clue what she was on about. Finally after realizing that I had no clue she reached over and snatched my wallet out of my hand and started going through it. Seeing that was the smallest note I had she threw it at me, then gave me change for the note I had originally given her. I didn't leave a tip. |
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Wow, where in Italy was this Nick?
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United States
460 Posts |
Great, another thing for me to keep an eye out for.  |
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United States
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where in Italy was this Nick? We were on our way to Florence, I don't remember the name of the town we stopped in. |
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My people are from Genoa (Dad's side) and Syracuse (Mom's side). Anyway, I am pretty sure that I would have slapped a cashier, (that was terribly rude).
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