Went to a few US Banks during our fall break from school...withdrew some cash to have for my weekly half dollar order. Asked if they had anything strange, any half dollars, customer wrapped rolls....the usual...and $2 bills. One teller had 3 heavily circulated bills, the other had this: 1 complete $200 FV stap of Series 2003 A, San Francisco, CH CU $2 FRN, consecutive L43323501A - L43323600A. Also shown are the 3 Star notes I found: J03035928* , Series 2006 (Kansas City) $1 FRN CH CU J03035932* , Series 2006 (Kansas City) $1 FRN CH CU EL 04694907* , Series 2004 $20 FRN Fun day at the bank!
Thanks, gbroke. I'm happy...but it's mostly because of this: http://www.cointalk.com/t193338/#post1280350
Do you keep $20 star notes? I have run into 6 or 7 just in the last two weeks. I have been spending them because I can't really afford to keep them. Just been thinking it was awful strange to see so many.
Ha ha I do when I can afford to...which I can do right now. I've run across a couple $100 stars, too...but sadly ended up having to put them back into circulation. If I were still a teller, I'd probably run into way more stars...but now I only really check once a week or so when I move my half dollar money from my dump bank to my ordering bank.
I have to ask... How? Bank teller? Simply someone who goes through large amounts of cash? Strap searching? Just ATM or change back finds??
Your 2003A SF $2's are worth not a penny over face value or will not be for a long time, sorry . The government is planning on printing more. They just issued the 2012 Fiscal year print order and they will be issuing a Series 2009 $2. I could go to the bank right now and get as many '03A $2 SF's as I can afford or want. They are not rare and you might as well use them to buy something else collectible if you intend on collecting. If you are specifically interested in collecting $2's, at least do it right:smile: Buy a strap of used $2's and search for star $2's (which are fairly common too). Get a nice looking district set of 1976 Series. Get a district set of '03A too. Find one nice example of Series 2003 $2 and a 1995 $2. Set these aside, but your strap is worth no more than $200. A week ago, I came accross some consecutive 1976 $2's. One of them was even an error. In that same strap, I found 3 $2 2003 Minneapolis stars, and an uncirculated 1995 radar with its consecutives. Nice $20 and $1's though, I will give you credit on that. Are the $1's consecutive? PM me if you wanted to know more about 'district sets' and such. I will be glad to help you out to get a fairly nice collection of $2 FRN's. :smile
Tbudwiser, Thanks for your input. I have to agree with you on one point, and disagree at the same time. No, they are not rare, probably not even very collectible. But....having seen the crap that people at auctions buy, I guarantee you I could sell this for more than face. I'd be willing to bet my entire collection on it. How much...well, that's a different story. I'm not trying to say I found the holy grail of notes, here...just being excited that I got an uncirc strap of consecutive $2. The selling question is a bit moot, as I plan to keep it (as something cool) unless I get a wild hair to use that money on something more collectible (there are MANY, MANY coins I'd spend this money on - problem is, the dealers I trust NEVER can seem to get their hands on any of them...lol) As for collecting paper, I'm really only getting my feet wet. I'll keep stuff that I get for face value...but like with coins, most of what is for sale locally is for sale because someone didn't want it - problem coins, cleaned stuff, AG-VG...dipped MS coins with that boring "blast-white" lack of character. Same kind of holds true for paper, at least from what I've seen.
Oh I guarrantee you could sell them for $5 bucks a pop on eBay... But... minus off shipping (because everybody wants free shipping), listing fee, final value fee, PayPal fee (if thats what your using). Soon, your $5 turns into $1.50! Not literally, but I'm sure you are intelligent to get the point. Not to mention, how many dishonest people are you going to get that will say make a claim of "never recieving item". So now, you have to add on insurance. If anything you'll break even and all you'll gain out of it is some feedback. I have seen people selling them at auctions... Usually no body interested. Usually, if your into this hobby/investment so much to where you travel to get into an auction, you are more intelligent than to pay more than face value for something that just isn't. Idk though maybe you can make some money on them. If you can, I'd sure be interested to know how so I can make a daily thing out of it too! With my original reply, I thought your intentions were to collect them and hold onto them for a while. But if your intentions are to make a profit on them, good luck!!
Not a problem. My intentions at the moment are to hang on to them...because I think they're a bit cool. As I said...if I find myself needing a few hundred for a particular coin that comes along...then I'll start looking hard at that strap. If I were to sell them, I'd probably try Craigslist or have my friend throw them in his auction for me. No fees...no shipping. I hate eBay.
I don't actively search as in rolls/straps. I do however, look at every bill that just happens to pass through my hands. I had to go out of town recently, and took a little cash with me to pad my wallet. Between that, and a few hundred that passed through my hands since, I have seen at least 6 star 20s. $1 stars I keep no matter what. Beyond that, I usually just watch the rest come and go.
Wow ... I'd imagine someone who sees that many $20 stars has to like work at a bank or something... But nope just general circulation finds, aye? What you should consider doing is posting them on eBay to make a couple of extra bucks or even selling them @ face plus ship and handle to people like me who want them. Me personally, I already get all the star notes I could possibly want from my whole bank worth of tellers who search for me. But there are people (some even on this forum) that search all day every day and can't seem to find anything. Do you even check to see how rare they are? Or do you keep any certain nicer condition ones? Special serial number types?
I normally don't have so many 20s going through my hands. This was probably on the order of $700. So it's not something I see often. I was thinking it was probably odd, but wasn't sure. Usually I have plenty of ones to go through, but no so many 20s. If I see any more, I suppose I'll post on the board and see if anyone wants them. I don't mind trading them for face if someone wants them. I don't check rarity if the date is recent. All these were 2006. I look at my bills for radars, repeats, etc... But never find any. Stars are what I see when something does come my way.
ratio, I would be interested in stars if you decide to trade them for face value. Well....assuming I have the cash on hand to trade for them and I don't already have a note from that series/district.
