Hello All, I have recently acquired a chunk of my late Grandfathers collection and am starting to sort through it. I was wondering if you all could help me determine values/grades/worth of things as I go through them please. Here is the first of several stacks of series of bills he has. All I know about this is what he wrote on the envelope the bills are stored in: "Complete Block Set - 1977A" Here is a pic of the first bill off the top of the stack, all the other bills are in same condition. Thanks for your help, let me know if you need more info... Image Here
A "block" is the combination of letters at the start and end of the serial number. So a "block set" for the 1977A series would be a set of all the different letters that were used. It looks like the 1977A $1's used 43 different regular blocks, plus 12 star blocks. The image you posted is from the A..* block, so your grandfather's set apparently includes the star blocks, which is good. I don't know much about pricing here. The H..D and K..G blocks had the lowest printing totals for the series, and the B..A block is interesting because there was an odd serialling rollover there, so those are probably the highest-valued individual notes. Even the common blocks would retail for several dollars each, though. It might be worth checking whether the set includes the rare Natick paper test notes. Small quantities of E..H and E..* notes were printed on currency paper that was ordered from different manufacturer than normal, as the Treasury was trying to establish a backup paper supply, just in case. Some collectors would've included those notes in a block set, and they'd be worth *much* more than the ordinary notes from these blocks. The serial ranges for the Natick notes are E76800001H-E80640000H and E07052001*-E07680000*. Hope this helps!
Numbers summed it up well, and in the latest Collectors Guide by Robert Azpiazu the 1977A non-star District set is valued at $85, and the 1977A star District set is valued at $145. Keep in mind that the non-star district set in Roberts guide is just for 12 notes, (A-L) and does not include all 43 individual blocks. If you wanted to email me, or post the individual serial numbers of each note, I could try to give you a better answer. It depends ALOT on print runs because some common stars are only $6-$8 each, and some of the rare stars are valued at $25 each. A common non-star is about $3-$4 each.
Yes, this helps a lot. Its much more than what I knew before, which was nothing. I will look for the Natick notes and see what I find.
