Very nice old bills and welcome!!!large silver certificates and the old red seal $2 bills isn't the 1928 G a key issue?they all are keepers.
Welcome to the crazy train . . . er, I mean Coin Talk. Only some of us are crazy. You figure out which ones. LOL Those are all fun notes to collect and I'm sure you know that condition is everything when dealing with currency. On another note, I'd invest in some good sleeves rather than that sticky photo album you have them in. Acids in the cardboard and glue will take a toll on those notes.
Welcome to the forum @Anthony Mullen. I don’t see anything special, but it a good start on a currency collection. As mentioned above, get them into some quality currency sleeves.
Lucky "buddy" (sorry to hear his grandfather passed away) What I like: the 2 top 1923 Silver Dollars look to be in nice shape. What I don't like: that binder in the background. I really hope they're not taped (glued) onto the photo album or whatever that is in the background. The biggest nightmare to the 'better than average' collector is to see notes improperly stored as they can damage easily (from light, from the bleach in the paper, etc). As @SteveInTampa suggest PUT them in currency sleeves. You'll need large ones for the big 1923 notes.
Despite the poorer conditions of those bills they are all keepers. They would be a great addition to any paper collectors collection and a fantastic start to a new paper money collection. Be sure to protect them and welcome to CT.
Yes, I love those! Very interesting at different levels of wear and yet they're all together. Except why are these different?
I’m not certain of the correct terminology, but I believe they are plate position indicators or sheet position indicators letting you know where they were located on the sheet when originally printed.
Like @SteveInTampa said. It has something to do with plate positions. If you've ever looked at slabbed silver certificates the letter printed on the certificate always precedes the plate number listed on the label.
In Canada, we've seen these on Dominion of Canada (DOC) banknotes & they're referred to as check letters (usually A, B, C, D) for position as @SteveInTampa explains. That might explain why early collectors liked collecting sequential # (the check letters would be different). Plus, with these early DoC notes (& likely 1923 SD & early US 'horse blankets'), it meant you could actually have 4 or 8 serial numbers that were the same (depending on how many notes were printed per sheet). It may have been different in the US (where more were printed & the tech probably more advanced).
My father in law died a few years back and left an envelope taped infer his desk with $2.00 bills it hundreds of C/U notes maybe he thought they would be worth something someday, like your find very cool, but not much in actual value as there is all ot of condition issues, but sentimental value now that’s priceless.
