the new $100 dollar bills search...

Had a customer use one last week. Kind of neat looking.

 

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I guess it wouldn't be worth selling them after fees....3 sold for $354, take out $35 for ebay, then another chunk for paypal, and you are basically left with the $300 you started with...

 

I got 6 consecutive serial numbers in Vegas this weekend. I put them in a plastic sleeve and put them away. Maybe they will be worth something, maybe not.

 

It's amazing that people on ebay are actually paying up to $150 for these new bills. I've seen 2 of them at work this week. One was very crisp and the other looked like someone crumbled it into a ball. What a shame.

 

Well I'm getting warmer - 2009A $100 Star note, today, teller exchange

 

Nice! The star notes have about an $80 premium on ebay....at least

 

Paying such a premium is quite ridiculous considering these new hundreds have had more stars printed for them than any other series in history or at least they will by the time the series is finished. http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f2009ah.html I imagine they will be very commonly found once they are distributed in the near future.

 

I was hoping to cash in on the new craze happening with them on ebay, but its just not worth it after about 12% fees from ebay and paypal...sell a lot of 3 consecutive serials for 350 and you'll only make just about $300...

 

my bank just got in $30k of sequentials friday morning. i was reeeeeally hoping for some stars or a fancy serial range, but no go.

it was fun though, to hold 300 brand new blue notes in my hand.

 

Did they let you go through them, or did you have to buy them?

 

Not impressed with the 3D strip. The woven design seems to have issues. The paper strips between the 3D strip can separate and tear. The inking on the paper strips varies from bill to bill, some areas do not print well. Wonder how this bill handles circulation.

 

Paper strip between 3D strip tore very easily. See photo. 3D strip can be easily peeled off. Were these tested at all. These will not survive circulation. Taking these back to the bank. BEP needs to recall ASAP. What a disappointment. I'm bummed.

 

My local Wells Fargo has them and I will be in tomorrow to pick some up. The one the teller showed me was definitely not a low number.

 

For those who don't want to do the math: As of September, the total printage of Series 2009A $100's is 51,552,000 stars vs. 4,009,600,000 regular notes, for a star rate of 1.29%. In absolute numbers, that *is* the largest number of stars for a $100 FRN series (beating out Series 1996 at 32,800,000). But as a percentage, it isn't all that bad; most recent series have been a bit under 1% stars, but Series 1999 was 1.44% stars, and before 1980 a typical $100 series was more like 3% to 6% stars, with Series 1963A holding the lead at almost 12%. (Probably not coincidentally, that series also saw major upgrades to the printing process--it always takes a while to get the kinks worked out of a new system.)

We're still waiting to see what'll become of the Series 2009 $100's--the first attempt at printing the Kodachrome design, that had most of the serious problems. The BEP printed 1,440,000,000 regular notes and 86,848,000 stars of that series, for a star rate of 6.03%. But so far, we haven't seen any of them in circulation. Apparently they're still at the BEP, waiting to be re-inspected for defective notes (the BEP has to construct a machine to inspect single notes rather than full sheets). It's unclear what fraction of those notes will eventually make it into circulation (last I heard the BEP was predicting 70% or s0), so the 2009 $100 stars are a bit of a wildcard. They may turn out to be more plentiful than even the 2009A stars, but....

 

It is unclear to me why you think "can be destroyed by metal tools" is a fatal defect in an object that's made of *paper*. Surely few $100 notes in normal circulation will encounter a screwdriver....

 

i flipped through each strap (there were only three straps of 100 bills each). i'm an employee of the bank, so i got to check them out without investing my own cash into any of them.

 

Yesterday at work I saw about 15 of them. 4 of them were consecutive. But then I saw one that was splitting on down the side of the blue strip.

 

Picked up two straps of the new$100 bills.
All bills were consecutive. Originally planned
to keep all twenty but finally decided to keep
five. Now wishing I would've kept all twenty.

I mainly collect obsolete ABNCo currency which scans easily. Unsuccessfully tried to scan the new $100 bills w/o success. REloaded scanner drivers, replaced printer\scanner cable. Stayed up 'til 1am Saturday morning trying to fix the scanner.
got up early Saturday morning trying more fixes for the scanner. Finally, around 10am
I remembered new bills mostly aren't scannable.
Dugout my dependable Canon P/S camera but the battery is dead, next I got out the Canon P/S camera my brother gave me but the battery is dead. CAn't find the battery charger or the special CAnon USB cable I could use the charge the cameras.

Finally just took a picture using my iPhone. one.

 

midas 1,

That is a pure example of perseverance and determination. I'll bet you'll own many complete sets of currency by the time your collecting days are over. :>)

 

I dunno Salty, I felt pretty stupid when I finally realized I couldn't scan 'em.

I've been buying new currency when it's released for >25 years, otherwise I but obsolete currency.
The bank teller told me the new hundreds foul up the currency counter machines.
Currently, they can't mix new hundreds w/ old hundreds becAuse they cause the
counters to hiccup.

BTW, just found the holder part of the Canon battery charger
now need to find the special power cable.