I found a $1 bill that has a serial number of 18778787. Just curious if this serial number sounded like a premie.
i know some collectors go for repeating serial numbers on notes but i doubt it has a great value to it. maybe face or a couple of dollars as i see it. i dont collect very many bills either but its worth what someone will pay in the end
If there's only one thing you learn to do on CT, and I say this because you are both new to this site and inordinately prolific in your thread creation, post "scans" of both sides of the note. Otherwise there's no way anyone can help you with such a question.
And all we need are scans to tell you what the condition will do to help or hurt that premium you are expecting to find out about. From those scans we could gather the Series date and the Federal Reserve District printed on the note to be of help in assessing this note as these factors will also affect valuation. You too could also post this information while we wait for scans. But we MUST see the condition to provide you any help. Period.
Even without scans, this note is a spender. Although some people will and do collect anything, and they will come by here and tell you about that, I'd advise spending it towards something else, which would have a better chance at maintaining a premium amongst collectors. If a premium is what you seek, seek premium quality. P.S. premiums on notes pretty much nullifies that signature line you've been using.
Quite honestly, what you found is pretty much the best range of 'fancy' you find in circulation. Notes with fancy numbers easily get picked before they leave banks. Tellers know and have customers who they set them aside for, then there are collectors/dealers who strap search and look for new blocks. That's why many you see are high grade, gem quality notes that never circulated. Start there and you will have premiums, not beat up pocket change with stains and what not.
You have to ask for new bills, or be lucky enough to be at a teller when they are opening or just about to open a new strap of notes. Just ask them if they have any they can sell to you. However, the strap is just the band around the bundle of precounted notes. If you ask for a strap of $1s ($100) then you may get circulated notes that have been counted and straped. You can also ask if they have set aside any old notes, beaten up notes or anything unusual as many customers don't want damaged, dirty or old series of notes. Tellers, some of them, tend to put them to the side and may, if asked, allow you to buy them, at face value of course.
