Just curious!!

Hypothetical situation! You go to the bank and buy a $50 wrap of one-dollar bills with all serial numbers sequential! In the wrap is a fancy serial number! We'll say it's a radar note! How many of the bookend notes would you keep with it? Two on each side, five on each side, more, the entire wrap? Looking forward to your opinions!!

 

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Good question

 

I would keep the subject note only. You don't have to prove to anyone that it was part of a sequence. JMO

 

Was under the impression bookends could increase overall value!! That was the reason for my question. I have a radar note with bookends. Posted it awhile back and was told the value would be $100 to $300 with bookends. Got me wondering how many bookends were required to make a difference in value.

 

Personally, I tend to keep the note in question and any that go with it.

 

Well Sarge, I'm not an expert. You need to get more feedback.

 

If the pack is one dollar bills I’d just keep the entire pack.

 

Keep what you want, you can always spend them at any time to get your money back.

 

Good question

 

Nah. @SteveInTampa

 

I only keep book ends for error notes. Insufficient ink, offset printing, gutter notes, and the like. In your case I would only keep the radar note.

 

Now that an answer I could deal with

 

I think I would keep just one bookend on each side to prove the note came from a strap of notes and not found singularly. It gives solid proof that it is an uncirculated note.

 

Bingo

 

When you go to the bank and get that strap of $1 bills, it's going to run you $100. Not $50. So maybe that will play into how many 'bookends' you retain to support your radar note.

As for me, I'd only keep the one radar note. If you submit it for grading, having the bookends entombed will cost you dearly, for no benefit.

 

I think you are possibly confusing the meaning of "bookends" in regard to SN's.

Let's say you have a SN: 54312699. Clearly, nothing special (a "spender").

Now another SN is: 12344321. Most certainly a radar note; reads the same front to back as back to front; but not a bookend.

Now another SN is: 12166121. Again a radar, but also "121" bookends; they are in the same SN. Similarly, something such as 24422442 is a radar made with "2442" bookends.

A bookend SN note is the actual note itself. I've collected notes for a long time & never have I ever collected (intentionally) adjacent notes, since those are usually just normal SN's. And I know of no one else who deliberately collects notes adjacent to the target note.

Now how much that may or may not increase the value?...that really depends on the buyers desire to possess it.

JMHO

 

I don't know. I stay away from that place at all costs.

 

I enjoy the spirit of collecting. Remember, under my screen name is Borderline Hoarder.

 

All notes come/came from straps at one time. I don't think keeping adjacent notes proves anything. Also, you can easily have notes with adjacent serial numbers that are circulated. So why keep them?

Now, if one of the adjacent notes was a star note, that's a different story

 

Notes “bookending” an Error note are most typical. I wouldn’t see the need to keep the notes bookending Radars or Repeaters.