An OMG Moment at my Credit Union This Afternoon

I was at the credit union dumping my coin roll hunting rejects this afternoon and was asking about older $2's etc that they might have - one of the tellers interrupted our conversation and said she had some old fives that they have had in that branch for a couple of years since it first opened. They came from an older lady that found them in her husbands stuff in a box in the basement after he passed away - she had brought them in and the vault teller looked through all of them and told her they might be valuable - and she should take them to a coin dealer. She persisted that she just wanted to put them in her account since she didn't want to bother with a dealer. The lady had told her that her husband died in the late 1940s so these were saved before then. She ended up depositing over $500 worth and the vault teller bought several of them to save - she said there were gold seals, brown seals etc. But the rest of them have been there ever since - $425 worth. She had another teller take them to the drive thru window to give out - but she hesitated to because due to their age and thinking that people wouldn't take them. So there they sat until she brought up that she had them:



A bad iPod pic - the earliest note in the lot is a 1928-C, the last is a 1934-C and there is only one of those so it may have been one of the last ones added to this accumulation. As noted earlier the vault teller had others that were Nationals, and North Africa notes from WWII. 85 notes is the biggest haul numerically I have ever made with older money.

 

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WOW. Fantastic! Congrats!

 

(Insert explitive here) That's an amazing find! My webcam is laughing at the look I have on my face right now.

 

Wow that crazy, very cool.

 

Sorry I don't see the Brown or gold seals. All the rest can go for $6.00 to $10.00 unless there is something special.

 

Looks like you were at the right place at the right time. Nice finds...thanks for sharing that story. Makes one wonder how many other vaults in the country have similar notes just waiting to land in the hands of collectors.

 

Super cool , congrats on your find .

 

that is stinking awesome!

 

Ditto!

 

You are one lucky dog! Congrats.

 

Just a guess, but this could be why.....

 

Holy crap! This is an unbelievable grab... all for face value. You probably have some mules in there, that might be valuable.

There are older notes out there, particularly in the banks of small towns. What part of the country did you find this?

I spoke with a teller who had a lady bring in an AU 1928 $500 gold certificate looking to change it for hundreds. He tried to set up an exchange with her, knowing it was valuable, but couldn't do it on the job. She never came back, unfortunately.

They are definitely out there.

 

That is just crazy awesome! Congrats!!

 

A w e s o m e !! Very cool story!

 

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Here is a breakdown of the notes:


Series
FRN District Number of notes:
Series 1928-A 7 1
Series 1934 4 2
Series 1934 7 1
Series 1934 9 2
Series 1934-A 2 1
Series 1934-A 7 22
Series 1934-B 4 1
Series 1934-B 7 3
Series 1934-C 7 1

USN
Series 1928-B 1
Series 1928-C 9
Series 1928-E 2

SC
Series 1934-A 20
Series 1934-B 11
Series 1934-C 8

Total: 85

 

awesome find! congrats scottishmoney!

 

Are there any mules among those? Mules from the early period of small size notes will have different sized plate numbers on the front and back. The difference is minor, 2mm vs 3mm. Mules are usually worth more than their ordinary counterparts, although that's not always the case.

 

Yes - there were six of them all total.

 

That is one of the greatest scores recorded. Just WOW!