I just bought 8 unc consecutive series 1957 $1 star notes for $3 each:thumb: Are they worth anymore consecutive? They are so fresh they left ink on the paper they were mailed in.
not that i know off. consecutive is not worth a great deal most of the time. i got consec. stars from 2006 that are worth squat
Actually, Silver Certificate star notes' SNs begin with the star, then the 9 and whatever subsequent numbers until the block letter at the end. See the short description about how star notes' serial numbers for silver certificates work at the top of this page: Series 1957 $1 from US PaperMoney.info From Heritage Auctions - Glossary of Currency terms: Silver Certificates: Star Note:
How much is the "real world" value of these notes? After looking at them closer i am 100% sure they have never been folded and they do have nice sharp corners but the notes do appear to have a slight wave, is that normal for notes this age?
There are scores and scores of them. Series 1957 shows 2,609,600,000, that's BILLION, of these notes printed. Just consult a guide book to check out the printages for yourself, or use the numbers on that site I linked to for this Series. Your notes are exceedingly common, each may be $1-$3 raw but we need to see good scans of each side to determine the grade. The guide books typically show inflated prices, $3 in circulated and $9 in ChCU. Also note that the Series date is not necessarily reflective of the age of the note as they were printed at different times over a period of years until plates were altered or signatures of the signatories changed. Your notes may not be as old as you think, read through the site I linked to to determine when the blocks for your notes were printed.
My book shows $4 in VF, $15 in CH CU and $30 in GEM CU for a series 1957 star note, I knew those prices are high and inflated but that's what you would probably pay at a coin shop, so 3x face cant be that bad even if you assume they are only AU..
As late as the 1960's coin dealers could buy straps of 100 $1 Hawaii notes off the market for a few dollars per note pretty much on demand and they thought the same thing about them as people now think of the last issues of silver certs but the fact remains that the face value of all the $1 2006 FRNS from the Atlanta district is much higher then the total amount of small size silver certs left outstanding including fives and tens and that's just one district!! So the way i look at it is that all silver certificates are rare and the last issue $1 notes may be commion compared to other silver certificates but are still pretty rare in the context of other notes and the fact that the remaining 100 note straps are being broke up and depleted fast and when the day comes when dealers cant just buy a pack of 100 notes on demand and have to start buying notes in smaller lots of five or ten i think the price will explode on these.
Honestly, I don't think you overpaid for the notes regardless of the notes availability and differing values of the notes as given in various guide books. I love silver certificates, the blue ink of the seals and SNs and they look sharp when clean and crisp like yours sound to be. Here are a few of my silver certs from my collection, raw and certified:
The Rickey Collection? I'm not familiar with that one. Care to enlighten me on this collection and how this note was verified to be from it?
