Poll of the Day > found my lowest serial numbered bill by far today

(+) Yeah! (+)

broke my record by some distance akin to Bob Beamon in the long jump.

before it was 00004857

today i found a 2013 one dollar note serial

A00000667*

so bill #667, and its a star note. definitely worth over face value. perhaps i could sell this for twentybux or so but i have to do my research. for reference bill serial 00000001 goes for several thousand in any condition.

hooray! there still is good bills aht there!

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Still collecting those bills, I see. Good job, btw.
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would of been more interesting if the last number was a 6 and not 7
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that would up the value a lot.

my bill sadly is from a high print run of 3.2 million :(

and yeah still hunting. havent found much as of late. sold a 1950b fifty dollar bill for 53 dollars !!!

transposed the numbers so the serial was actually 677, but...



BEAUTIFUL

Thats the ugliest dollar bill I have ever seen

Youre making George Washington depressed. stop it.

Wooden teeth little bitch

im feeling lucky today i will go to the bank and withdrawal 500 dollars in ones.

So one strap down here are the interesting finds:

series 1988a
c53159444e

Older bill, wanted to see if it was a web note but it is not

series 2006
d79593979d

every other number a 9

series 2006
g00821703*

star note, high print run of 3.2 million

series 2013
b00009199b

third bill ive ever found with four zeroes at the front. low serial. maybe a sign of good luck? would be worth decent money if that 1 was a 9

only real keeper for me is the low serial
onward!

argonautweakend posted...

So one strap down here are the interesting finds:

series 1988a
c53159444e

Older bill, wanted to see if it was a web note but it is not

series 2006
d79593979d

every other number a 9

series 2006
g00821703*

star note, high print run of 3.2 million

series 2013
b00009199b

third bill ive ever found with four zeroes at the front. low serial. maybe a sign of good luck? would be worth decent money if that 1 was a 9

only real keeper for me is the low serial
onward!

What a day to be alive!

well, no, i dont have any moon pies.

What's a star note?
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a star note is a note designated by a star after the serial number.

Normally bills are printed from 00000001 to 99999999, and after it goes A, B, C, etc when each 99m are printed. it just cycles through the alphabet.

When bills are printed that are errors such as a miscut or something, those bills are pulled, and the printing resumes as normal. to make up for the error bills they make star note print runs to replace the damaged bills. You can look up and see if yours comes from a high or low print run here:

http://www.mycurrencycollection.com/reference/star-notes/lookup

The most common are 3.2 million print runs, but they go as low as 80,000. I have a few rarer star notes from 640K and I think a 320K print run.

people collect star notes as they are a little more rare(expect 1-2 per hundred notes, give or take), but 3.2 million run star notes can be spent without regret. the lower ones you should keep and try to sell as they have a premium. bill condition also matters, too. low print runs in excellent shape sell for more.

You can check the bills in your wallet and see if you have any. you easily could. For reference just check my image. that little star is whatcher look for.

another thing i am looking for is mismatched serial numbers. these command quite a premium. You can find them, but they are extremely rare.

This is when the two serial numbers on the face of the bill do not match. They dont look unusual as in you wont find one serial number that looks misprint or anything, just two serials, both look normal but do not have the same number.

left serial: 78261896
right serial: 78458996

https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/scubu/2010113_PMG4.jpg

A pretty informative topic.

You've got yourself a neat lil' hobby. Keep it up.

i try to be informative because i want to encourage other people to do this. to be clear, this hobby is free. You get money back in change, when you cash checks, from the ATM...you can even do what I did today and get 500 in ones, look through em, and deposit it back in the next day. Money I get that I set aside is still worth face value, that will never change. the most you need is the ability to shuffle money around in a short period of time.

did two more straps, so three total. not much in these, though im also not looking up close under a scope to get some nitty gritty errors which you can find. My routine is check the series, check the serials, make sure they match, and see if there are any obvious errors.

Got a star note in the last strap...lets see how rare it is:

http://www.mycurrencycollection.com/reference/star-notes/lookup/1/2013/h06317489

....No.

Yeah the only downside is you frustrate bank workers with outrageous demands like 500 dollars in 1's. If I worked in a bank and knew you were the type to ask for this stuff I would immediately take a break as you walked in.
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what? bank workers do this for a living. hundred dollar straps are pre counted and wrapped. by a bill counting machine that can count thousands in seconds.

i went in, filled out a slip, teller asked me how i wanted it back and i said ones. she didnt seem to mind, opened her lockbox and pulled out five stacks and handed them over and i left.

wont go back into the bank to deposit it because i can use an atm. but if i dont want to use an atm the teller inside can handle my request just fine because its common.

well i went through the rest and didnt see much. one or two star notes from 3.2 million runs.

off to the ATM to deposit this back, and on monday I might go back to another bank and do it all again. 500 in ones.

okay so today I am going to deposit an extra hundred(forgot to last time...left two straps of fifty sitting on my table), then withdrawal 400 dollars as I dont have enough for 500 this time.

hope i get something good. last time out was a bit of a bust, a few kinda interesting finds but nothing amazing.

So, went through 100 dollars so far. gonna have to check em again when i have better lighting, but all i found was a serial of 71111171

If that second 7 was a 1, i'd have a seven of a kind which is decent money. Even better theyd all be trailing the 7.

Ive found six of a kind several times, but never seven and never a full solid of 8. 6 is like the max before it gets ultra tough/rare