Where Do You Find Rare Bills?

A lot of what I find as a teller is of little value to any collector or hobbyist. Every once in a while, maybe once a week I may find something worth it. Id go into the bank and ask for a decent amount if you want to try to search for them, but I know some tellers have a keen eye looking through them. You're most likely going to find something if you get the money from the vault before it hits teller hands.

Just my Two Cents

I have a few collections of currency on the go. My main ones are Canadian and U.S. banknotes with errors. The entire
Canadian collection (with the exception of two notes) was found in circulation (I'm Canadian, btw). I have almost a dozen mismatched serial number/prefix notes that I received in change or found while searching notes at work.

My U.S. collection was entirely purchased from dealers or from ebay auctions.

Finding "rare" notes in circulation or in stacks is possible but I do know of several collectors, who in over 30 years of searching stacks have never found an error note.

If you are considering collecting "rare" notes, you might want to decide what types you like and advertise that you
are interested in purchasing them. But, you're going to have to have deep pockets.

Right you are Bryan..... value and investment are not what collecting is all about.... I think that personal enjoyment and satisfaction are the primary factors associated with collecting.

Depending on what a person's definition of "rare" is, I might suggest that you will never find a 'rare' note in circulation, or at a bank...... To me, "rare" means 10 notes or less exist of a certain variety, where most folks here consider "rare" to mean hundreds of thousands of notes existing.