Uncut currency

Hey guys,

Is there anything special about uncut currency? Is it nothing more than something that's just neat to have, or is there actual long-term value in it?

 

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It is just something neat to have.

 

+1.
There are some pieces that command a premium, also.

 

Star note sheets are desirable. The BEP has sold them in every denomination except $100 notes.

 

What's BEP?

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Bureau of Engraving and Printing, an arm of the US Treasury Department.
Here's where you can buy their specialty products: http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/

 

I have some uncut sheets of French assignats from 1792 - kind of neat to think about how long they have survived. It is possible to still find sheets of colonial currency from the USA also.

 

Here is an example on display at the Newman Money Museum in St. Louis MO.
These are "Franklin Leaf" Shillings printed by his partner Hall and Sellers

Sorry for the poor quality I got there 10 min before closing time and I just rushed around snapping photos.

 

Thanks for the responses guys. What is special about the star notes? Are they in general circulation? Do you come across them in daily transactions?

 

Star notes are rarer than the regular issues. They can be extremely rare or non-existent for some older issues, all the up to 3% of notes released into circulation. In uncirculated condition, most star notes will command some premium. The value will depend on how many star notes are still known to exist. Some varieties have only 1 or 2 stars known.

Star notes are specially printed to replace notes that were found with printing errors and destroyed before leaving the BEP. Star notes go all the way back to the era of large size currency. You can sometimes find star notes in sequential packs of their own, and other times, they mixed in non-star packs as replacements for error notes.

 

Thanks, Funkee!

 

How about a sheet with an error? The plate number for the bottom note should be 3273 like the other three. The actual high range for the plate number didn't reach 4000 for this Series 1981 note.

 

Here is a note strap of 100 star notes with sequential serial numbers:

 

Thanks for sharing, Clay. I just stopped by my bank a bit ago and asked the teller about star notes and she had no idea what I was talking about. I don't know if that's good or bad.

 

I'd have enjoyed watching the teller's face. It's much like me asking you if you're familiar with the pipeline instruction set of the i860 processor. You should know, right, since you're a "digital man"?

The star notes are a relatively small corner of the paper money hobby, and those not involved with the hobby have no particular need to have even heard of them.

Dave

 

Duly noted, Dave. Thanks!

Pun intended.

 

that site in your link on all the paper currency verities is amazing clay!

 

Thanks. I hope it helps you!