Why don't I ever find anything.

Yes, I myself have gone through $1,000 per day for a week! Sometimes even more! Keep in mind that going to rural town not so much populated give you (usually) a higher success rate at finding goodies. Good luck!

 

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Could have fooled me!

 

Today one of my tellers had this waiting for me:



But she kept the Series 1963 $5 Red Seal for herself. She is just too much of a collector for my good - but I appreciate that she collects stuff herself.

 

Gresham's Law.

 

Discouragement could possibly be the worst thing that could happen to a numismatist. Don't give up man.

 

I was offered a $100 and $50 from 1934 today. They were beat up, and I don't have $150 for that now, so I passed. It's out there.

 

Even if I couldn't afford to keep them I would have bought them and then spent them somewhere. About 6 or 7 years ago I asked my aunt and uncle to keep an eye out for any old notes that they came across in circulation. They found a $10 note from 1995 and offered it to me. Unfortunately, the note was fairly used and had writing on it so I passed on buying it from them. They never had another old note to show me again. By declining to buy those two notes from your source they may now feel discouraged from keeping and offering you old notes again in the future.

 

Same with coins. If you wanna find something, you gotta keep searching. If a coin is one in 10 million, you figure to look at at least 10 million to get one. But you really probably need to look at 20-30 million. Rare, is just that...........rare. Hard to find. Truthfully, you may look for years and years without finding anything at all, but once you hit on one of those treasures, it's all worth it !

gary

 

Sorry Detecto that's rotten luck. One year I found no wheat cents in my change. Just gotta seek out your treasure (i.e. banks).

 

I may go back and get the $50.

 

I picked up the $50 today. The $100 was gone.

 

So what are we looking for in rare notes? Low serial numbers? What is a start note? Is there a book on error notes? I'd like to invest and give it a try once.

 

That's the tough part about collecting 50 and 100 notes - so much of the cost is tied up in the face value it can be expensive to collect. I collect 1928-1934 small size limes stars and other interesting notes but generall nothing over 20 because of the cost of investing where the collectible value might go up but the value of the investment of the face value simply goes down (thanks Washington D.C. !!!)

 

There is a catalog for error notes:

http://www.amazon.com/United-States-Paper-Money-Errors/dp/0896897141

Here's a list of some of the sites that list errors and collectible banknotes:

http://usrarecurrency.com/
http://www.executivecurrency.com/
http://www.treasuredstocks.com/currency/error-notes/frn-error.html
http://coolserialnumbers.com/

 

i work with cash 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, i cant even explain the volume of money i look at...i havent found a silver certificate in like a year, and i lucked out with a couple cool serial numbers and some 1963 b series but im sure they arent even worth much as of yet