Hey everybody fill in the blank! This is a game I made up called "Guess What"!

Hey guys,
I am going to tell a story that happened today. I want you guys to fill in the blank at the ending. This should be fun ;P. If you have a similar thing you want to do like tell a story, then post a picture and have everybody guess, post it here too!

Okay, so I've been going around town trying to gather up a really nice district set of 1976 $2's from all of my local banks. I've been taking all their used $2's (believe me when I say they don't mind lol) and I've been pulling out all really nice '76s for the FRB's I need. I came accross a small random bit of consecutive 1995 $2's in one of my stack searches, so I set them aside and thought I'd stash em. When I got home to go stash them, I noticed that one of the bills was a ___________!! I got so excited and starting feeling a really bad case of dejavu (sp??). This is because the same exact thing has happened with $1's before! Man do I have some good luck or what? .

 

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1928B star $2.00 bill

 

Oh c'mon your just messing around -_-. The game is you are suppost to guess what is collectible about one of the $2's in the picture.

 

Radar note!

Chris

 

*Ding-Ding* weeeee have a winner thanks for playing Chris!! lol

 

What's a radar note??

 

Its a scarce note where you can read the serial # either way and it comes out the same. Try with the $2 bill on the bottom of the pic and you'll see. Read it frontwards than backwards.

 

VERY COOL! Since I know very little about paper, do "radar notes" tend to carry a higher value?

Thanks
Raul

 

Radar notes do carry a higher value.

 

Radar notes are cool, but what is yours worth? Just asking.

 

Well I was actually hoping you guys coule tell me...

 

Very nice!

 

Radar & repeater note prices are fairly affordable, and abundant. They are worth more if they are binaries.
I bought this set of binary repeater-radars for $20. The notes are GEM.

 

But only one of the notes shown by the OP is a "complete" radar note as it starts and ends with the same number. The rest are semi IMO. Another thing that's nice about the $2 notes is that the OP has them consecutive.

 

What about this serial #: 2003A $2 SF L46454454A? To me it seems like it is a "partial ladder". I'd say it grades AU. Keeper or spender? While I realize that it is not full ladder, I have heard of so called "partial ladders". What do you guys think?

 

If it was L46454443A (step ladder) or L46455464A (radar), I'd keep in in a "New York Minute". If you like it, keep it.....it's only a $2 investment.

 

Yeah but the other one is whats called a 'Binary'. A 'Binary' is a note that uses only 2 digits throughout the entire serial #: 55556666. You will also see 'Trinary' notes which serial #'s consist of only 3 digits such as: 444888666. I collect both (trinaries only if the serial # is interesting enough...)

 

Darn, I have seen those and spent them! It was something like 50115101 on a five dollar bill.

 

I'm a coin guy, so sorry for intruding here. But, I'm confused why a serial number is collectable? Stars I understand, and maybe even low serials because they are from early in the print run (?), but why does a seemingly random serial number sequence have a premium?

 

Don't be sorry last time I checked this site wasn't based off of "hood gangs". Got enough of those in my lovely Sacramento neighborhood . Anyhow to answer yoyr question:

Certain serial #'s that are printed are less common than a regular serial #. Here are some highly reguarded examples of some serial #'s:

Radar. A radar is a bill where you can read the serial # either way and it comes out the same. This is the example that this thread was initially based off of; you can imagine that such a similar serial # is only printed so often. Less often enough to deman higher premiums (under the right condition, maybe like XF+).

Ladder. These notes usually come with higher premiums. A ladder note is where you read the serial # and the numbers consecutively go up or down such as : 123456789 or 987654321. You also have step ladders: 494847464, it goes from 49-46 as seen.

Binary's are notes which serial #'s only contain 2 digits: 121212121. With binaries, you also have less popular, trinaries. These notes serial #'s contain 3 digits 123123123. I collect both.

Finally (of the basics at least), you have Solids or near solids. These are probably that of the rarest collectible serial #'s of all. A solid note, simply as it sounds, is a note that only uses 1 #: 333333333. A near solid would look something like this: 444444440. Since a near solid uses 2 digits, it too is a binary.

Hope this info helps; picture all the $ out there being printed and then picture out of all of it, how are would it be to find notes with these serial #'s...

I almost forgot, I'd like to take this oppertunity to also correct your knowledge on one of the most common forms of collectible US paper currency: Star notes as you probably know are notes with an aftertisk * at the end of the serial # instead of a alpha letter. These are notes which went through one of the following cases: 1) (most common) the bill was incorrectly printed and did not meet BEP standards. Think of it as an error note (if you know what that is) that didn't make it out to circulation. It was caught by the BEP Electronic eye, the whole sheet was discarded and a new sheet was printed to replace it. This sheet would have different serial #'s as well as an aftertisk at the end so it could be easier for the BEP to keep track of error examination. 2) Testing. From occasion to occasion, the government has use star notes to preform testing. I don't know more about that aspect of star notes that that.

Hope this helps you!!