I will try to post pictures, but the note is in very good condition, crisp with a fold on left corner. The serial number is IE01313857* This is followed with an E5 stamp below. Is this worth holding onto or spending? Thanks!:hail:
Thank you! So if I read that right based off of this serial number they made about 2 million? Does that make this a keeper or a spender? I know coin mintage's are extremely high.
It's an SOI star note, but so are all the others in this run. And the "SOI test note" terminology that you sometimes hear is misleading, really. There's no "test" going on here; the BEP's new SOI presses are an established model that other security printers have been using for a while. The SOI notes aren't going to be a scarce limited printing like web notes or paper test notes; they're the new normal. While the transition from the old presses to the SOI presses was going on in the middle of Series 2006, certain blocks were printed both ways--and in some cases, certain blocks/runs are much scarcer one way than the other way. Those notes might end up having some premium value some day to specialized collectors. But nothing will have a premium value *just* because it's from the SOI presses; after all, half of Series 2006 and all of Series 2009 have been printed on them. So the note in this thread is a relatively common $20 star in nice but circulated condition. I'd probably save it if I found it myself, but I wouldn't expect it to be worth any significant premium ever...maybe a buck or three over face to the right collector, at best. So if the OP's question is whether it's "worth holding onto" from a financial viewpoint, the answer is probably "no". Sell it for $22 if you can find anybody who wants to pay that, or trade it to some collector for $20 if you're feeling altruistic, or else just spend it if you don't want to go to the trouble. Your call....
