ziggy9

HI
I've been lurking here for a few weeks absorbing info and decided it was time to sign up.
I was going through some old silver certs. and discovered that one is a "1935 experimental" in pristine condition.. no bends, folds, wrinkles or stains. The question is this Who would be best to send this to for grading?
Thanks
Ziggy

RickieB

Hello Ziggy... welcome to the fourm. Glad you decided to join!!
As for who you should send it to...well there are several choices and I suggest you research the top 3 and decide for your self.

Here they are; PCGS (pape money) CGA, PGM.

Good luck and post a pic of that fine note will ya??


RickieB

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der_meister77

Welcome to the forum!

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xeno108

what's the serial number? how low is it?? should post a picture... i love sc's

Aidan Work

Ziggy,welcome aboard.You will learn a lot here from both the old & new hands.

Aidan.

SanMiguel

great find! is it one of the S/R notes, or one of the AB blocks?

as far as PCGS, PMG (NGC), and CGA...they all have their pluses and minuses. none of them are perfect, but you'll still find people who are fiercely loyal to one brand or another. just from observation...you'll get more money reselling your note if its in a PCGS holder. ie- a PCGS gem 66 would sell at auction for slightly more than a PMG gem 66. no idea why. the same thing happens with their coins.

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TommyNumis

Why bother getting it graded? if you like the note just put it in a protective sleeve and hold on to it. Save the money you'd spend on grading for your next purchase.

ziggy9

trying to upload scans of cert. hope this works

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JeromeLS

Very nice ! I would get that graded with PCGS, if you are going to get it graded at all.

budgood

Nice looking note-

xeno108

looks nice... picture is a little tiny tho

TommyNumis

Hard to tell from the pics as they are very small, but that does not appear to be an experimental note, just a plain old silver cert. Still a nice note but the cost of grading would probably cost more then the note is worth.

satootoko

Dumb question from a non-paper collector who occasionally snoops in this forum - What is an "experimental" silver certificate

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Drusus

It refers to bills (mostly if not all one dollar bills) that are used for different experiements.

Like one experiment was to test different ratios of cotton and linen used in the paper in 1928 and 1937.

One was done in 1942 to test diiferent types of paper. In case they couldnt get the right paper because of war.

Then there was the web-fed press debacle. This is where they tried to go fom a 32 sheet print to continous feed printing. For various reasons such as machines being crap and the quality being low...they ended that...

I am sure there were others, these are the few I read about.

SanMiguel

i'm gonna have to agree with tommy. the serial number looks to me like A06814426A.



here's a breakdown of silver certificate experimental notes:

experiment 1, 1933
series 1928A, 1928B
X - B, Y - B serial number blocks (experimental)
Z - B block (control group)

experiment 2, 1937
series 1935
A - B block A00000001B-A06180000B (experimental)
B - B block B00000001B-B03300000B (experimental)
C - B block C00000001B-C03300000B (control)

experiment 3, 1942
series 1935A
S - C block S73884001C-S75068000C S (experimental, red S for "special paper")
S - C block S70884001C-S72068000C R (control, red R for "regular paper")

all the tests were inconclusive. the experimental paper blends showed wear at around the same rate as the regular paper blends.

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