US $100 Star Note

First of all, welcome!

I don't know too much about the paper money side of collecting but I work at Wal-mart and the most common star notes I see are $100's. Every once in a while I see a $20 star note, and I think I saw a $10 or a $5 only once. But I think maybe certain series/serial #s etc make some more valuable than others. I'll let someone else explain that.

You can't go wrong with proof/mint sets. I decided I'd rather collect the proof sets, since a lot of the coins in uncirculated mint sets I would already have in various albums. Personally, I like the older proof sets the best, although the newer ones have some nice effects to them. The question is, do you want to collect a few sets of specific years, like birth year, bicentennial, etc? Or do you eventually want all of them? Basically what I did, and this is just me, is I started with the 60's. 1960-1964 proof sets really aren't very expensive, but they're very nice to look at and they're all silver! Then I got the 1959, planned on getting 58 and 57, but ended up finding a '56 first for $50. That's about as much as I wanted to spend on one set, so I started with 1968 and then '69, '70, '71, etc etc. So I got the oldest sets I could afford and am now working from the 1970's-forward.

If you like modern coins better, then buy the newest sets and work backwards until you don't want anymore. I figured it best to get the oldest ones bought asap, since they will only go up in price later and be more expensive...

I hope all that kinda made sense

Anyways,

I like the older proof sets like from 1964 and earlier.........thats because they are silver and you can usually get them for melt value or slightly above the silver melt value on them. I think most of the newer proof sets have gone down in value and or are too pricey.