Fancy serial numbers?

I'll be honest. I'm new to this. However I believe I found some serial numbers worth keeping and or selling. Can anyone tell me if what I have is fancy enough? And if I do or do not what maybe to invest my time into looking for?

 

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I looked at all of your notes. None are Fancy Serial Numbers.
All spenders.

Here is some information on true Fancy Serial Numbers
http://coolserialnumbers.com/FancySerialNumbers.aspx

 

Not even the 777?

 

No.. why do you think it would be? It's just a number.

 

I have seen one on eBay and YouTube videos claiming lucky bill fancy serial number.

 

Oh yea.. ebay .. They would say anything to make money. Sorry but that is not a Fancy serial number. I also heard 888 is a Chinese lucky number.. but all that is silly in my honest opinion. The 777 or the 888 didn't magically appear on the bill. It eventually had to show up when using all the numbers needed to make them.

 

Well I think they meant that 7 is a lucky number, 777 is often refered to as a lucky number in America. Not sure about other countries.

 

Well.. you can believe whatever you want. I think it is nonsense. It still NOT a Fancy Serial number.

 

Ok cool beans. I will be switching up what I search for now.

 

If fancy is what you collect, go for it however in anything condition
Is everything so usually circulation finds never really measure up
On the value end.

 

Found some star notes today

 

I found a 666 once but it burned a hole in my pocket.

 

The true fancy serial numbers are rare. That's why they are fancy.
Look at the link provided in post #2.

 

The problem you're going to have is finding a buyer who is willing to pay a premium for it. You may get lucky and find a buyer on ebay, but that would be hit or miss. And don't even bother to take it to show or coin shop. At best, you'll get a polite "not interested".

Regarding ebay; Ignore the listed price. It means nothing. Look at the sold prices instead. People list all kind of stuff at unrealistic prices hoping to get lucky and find somebody who knows very little about the hobby/market and thinks "it's cool".

Usually, if things are easy to find in circulation, they aren't worth more than face value. There is nothing wrong with collecting 777 or 888 or anything else that interests you. Just be aware that unless you can find an uniformed newbie, it will be difficult to sell for more than face value

 

All are great for playing liars poker, that’s all.

 

What's $20 bill serial number with 00000110 worth

 

Is the picture of the twenty I have on here not a trinary with 8 bookends?

 

Sorry. Not bookends but it is a trinary 20 right?

 

Binary & Repeater...

 

Yes, but that won't make it worth a premium, because it's still too common.

If you do the math, about 1 in every 144 serial numbers is a trinary, so they're pretty easy to find.

A binary is much rarer, appearing once in about 8750 serial numbers. Radars and repeaters are each 1 in 10,000. And those are on the *common* end of the fancy-serial market. At the rare end, a solid serial is 1 in 10,000,000, and a perfect ladder is 1 in 16,666,667...and of course a serial number 00000001 is one in 100,000,000.

Also, for marginally fancy serial numbers like binaries, it's a lot easier to sell a $1 than something like a $20. If a binary $1 would sell for $5, that does *not* mean a binary $20 would sell for $100. More like, a binary $20 would be difficult to sell at all, because nobody wants to tie up $20 in face value for a fancy number that's only worth a $5 premium.

Do keep on checking your serial numbers--there are good finds to be had out there. But don't expect to make good finds very often; the good finds are good precisely because they're rare.