Hello all and happy Wednesday. Felt this find was worthy for my first thread on CT. My normal daily bank run for work yielded my first radar. I usually find star notes and keep anything below 640k but never has one of these turned up. Only searched $400 in ones. Enjoy and any opinions are greatly appreciated. Drum roll.
Looked for one for so long and now I don't know what to do with it. I know it's from a run of 3.2 million and from ft worth. Any ideas on worth/condition? Thanks all.
Condition is everything! Paper money isn't very forgiving in this regard and even the slightest bumps and handling negatively impacts value, easily. If searching circulated notes it's much harder to come across something of greater collector value given the age and condition. Try searching new straps and mind the serial numbers before taking them from the bank/teller so you can cherry pick (if possible, as many others and dealers do this) those notes with fancy SNs in ChCU grades. While your note was a pleasant first find (Congrats, by the way.) it's not particularly scare and too well worn to fetch much premium. With such notes, I usually advise you collect as you like or hold them and use these notes to buy a collectible say at a coin show or in a local coin shop. If you are not familiar with the site check out coolserialnumbers.com and follow completed auction listings to learn about how fancy SNs carry a premium given various conditions and other factors that make a note hold a collector value.
Yup! That's why there are so many threads on CT asking the same questions about such notes. Just check completed eBay listings. Certainly, there are those notes both rare and bearing some fancy SN, and because there is only one of each note with unique SNs, a premium can/does exist.
