What have you "passed" on at face value?

clembo · 12-27-2007, 10:09 PM

I got to thinking today and that can be dangerous in itself.

As currency collectors (this is the paper forum before I get any remarks), many of us have had to pass up a note or, in my case, thousands of dollars worth at face value.

Many of you know of my truck stop days. Yes, I passed up larger denominations all of the time just because I didn't have the money to spare. Star notes? Thousands of dollars worth I can assure you and I still have a few thousand face in stars so figure just how many I saw.

Now the REAL SCARY part. I DID NOT collect currency at all when I started there or at previous jobs where I handled fairly large amounts of cash. I used to COMPLAIN when we would run into strap after strap of CU Consecutive notes! Hey, those are tough to handle when you need to balance so we would intentionally "crinkle" them up for ease of separation.

Who knows what I may have passed up without knowing. I may have been crinkling CU web notes and 295 errors INTENTIONALLY. When I DID get into currency I did find many CU consecutive star notes. Wonder how many packs I may have let go as change.

A true horror story and hope I never have the opportunity to answer my questions.

What do y'all think?

clembo

Arizona Jack · 12-27-2007, 10:16 PM

It's scary Clembo, LOL

I'm a paper newbie, I save every star note. At my meeting I chair, when the basket get's passed for donations, I go thru every note and have 3-$1 stars and a 5 and a 20, all face value finds.

clembo · 12-27-2007, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Arizona Jack

It's scary Clembo, LOL

I'm a paper newbie, I save every star note. At my meeting I chair, when the basket get's passed for donations, I go thru every note and have 3-$1 stars and a 5 and a 20, all face value finds.

It will only get scarier!..... but that's half the fun!

Magman · 12-27-2007, 10:45 PM

I too recently got started with notes.
I can only imagine how many stars, low serial numbers, or possible errors I have passed off without knowing!!

Now I check every bill I get...

1892 Barber · 12-27-2007, 10:56 PM

[quote=clembo;311860] "I used to COMPLAIN when we would run into strap after strap of CU Consecutive notes! Hey, those are tough to handle when you need to balance so we would intentionally "crinkle" them up for ease of separation."

I too am guilty of this, at the time I only cared about coins. Currency was just a $1, $5 or $10.

adelv_unegv · 12-27-2007, 10:59 PM

Well, I remember spending notes that had a little number above the "ONE" and odd looking blank spots on the front where I knew something was supposed to be but I didn't know what. Besides, they were all brand new notes -- can't be worth anything, they're not old.

But that's not the scary part, if I had known they were webs and that web-press was the new method, I would have started hoarding all the crispy old style notes and spending the new ones instead. The old style is gonna be worth somethin' someday, ya know.

Ain't life funny?

RickieB · 12-28-2007, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by clembo

I got to thinking today and that can be dangerous in itself.

I used to COMPLAIN when we would run into strap after strap of CU Consecutive notes! Hey, those are tough to handle when you need to balance so we would intentionally "crinkle" them up for ease of separation.

clembo

Dan...

You did what?!

Crinkled up straps of note for ease of handling... were you out of your mind??

LOL

Well now that you have that out of your system...we forgive you!

Man that is so funny

I just could not help but poke fun at ya for a moment...LOL

I am sure all of us are guilty before we received some education....

I am starting to get funny looks at Church when the plate comes around to me..of course I hold it too long..LOL

Regards,

RickieB

clembo · 12-28-2007, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by RickieB

Dan...

You did what?!

Crinkled up straps of note for ease of handling... were you out of your mind??

LOL

RickieB

In a single word. Yes!

When I think back on how many millions of dollars that went through my hands over the years and I was busy looking for silver, wheaties etc but NOT notes.

I did keep some 20s from the 34 series' at one point when I was much youger - like 25 years ago. Brought them to a coin shop and was told they had no value so I spent them.

If ignorance is bliss then I was one real happy guy!

gatzdon · 12-28-2007, 10:13 AM

Well, with the holiday crunch, my wife is starting to pressure me into releasing some of my newer duplicates. I have so many high denomination bills from the 90's (of the old design).

I really don't want to send them to the shredders, but they aren't worth anything due to their condition. I was trying to figure out where was the best place to spend/swap them so they have the best chance of not getting shredded.

There's a coin show in Itasca, IL every month, but since I'm not well known, I don't know how well that would be taken to walk up to a dealer and ask if they want them for face value.

Where are some other places you guys would suggest to give them the best chance?

Phoenix21 · 12-28-2007, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by RickieB

I am starting to get funny looks at Church when the plate comes around to me..of course I hold it too long..LOL

ROTFL!

I have no idea what I have passed along over the years, till I gained the knowledge of things to look for, and like you clembo, I hope I never will.

Phoenix

mike98024 · 12-28-2007, 08:28 PM

I just passed on a 1988 $100 note that was almost new. My wife only gives me $5 a day for food, gasoline, clothing, entertainment and medical care, so I had no prayer with that one. At least it wasn't a star note....Mike

clembo · 12-28-2007, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by mike98024

I just passed on a 1988 $100 note that was almost new. My wife only gives me $5 a day for food, gasoline, clothing, entertainment and medical care, so I had no prayer with that one. At least it wasn't a star note....Mike

Your priorities are all wrong here!

"food, gasoline, clothing, entertainment and medical care" are all over rated.

RickieB · 12-29-2007, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by mike98024

I just passed on a 1988 $100 note that was almost new. My wife only gives me $5 a day for food, gasoline, clothing, entertainment and medical care, so I had no prayer with that one. At least it wasn't a star note....Mike

What?
$5 bucks a day....hummmmmm

Buddy, you need to come to the RickieB's school of Sweet talkin anfd Hob Nobbin!

RickieB

mike98024 · 12-29-2007, 09:48 AM

RickieB-
Though at one time I had raised my sweet talkin' to the Certified Silver Tongued Devil level, my wife eventually caught on to me after about 20 years (she's kind of slow in that way). I am afraid that, having overplayed my hand, her reaction has been to relegate me to financial purgatory. It is a strange predicament. There is no actual starvation. Clothing and shelter are not worries, yet my spending power is less than when I was a teenager and I am now almost 50! Surely God is on her side....Mike

Coinlover · 12-30-2007, 08:06 PM

you guys are going to be mad, but i've passed up a 1981A and 1993 dollar bill, 2 old style $5 bills (1995), a 1993 and a 1995 $10 note, and 1985 and 1990 $20 bills. before i started collecting i remember spending a 1988A $10 bill. i've also spent 4 star notes that were common. all of these bills were heavily circulated and i only keep the crisp ones anyways.

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