I thought a dedicated Gold Certificate thread was in order especially after watching the videos on my Family Bills Thread and also seeing a recent auction. (1) It seems like pricing for bills has gone up or the price guides people are using are too high. I have a $10 PMG-45 Gold Certificate Fr #2400 and its either worth much more than I paid ($250) and thought (~$350) or others are pricing or estimating their prices too high. The guy in the video has the same serial block and said his was $225. Is he too high or am I too low for a bill that is PMG-45 vs. his PMG-20/PCGS 25 ? (2) What's with Star Notes and/or a particular serial block ? I'm surprised they seem to add so much value to a note. A VF-20 Star $10 GC Fr #2400 just got sold....it's 25 grades lower than my note and nowhere near as good eye appeal https://www.greatcollections.com/Co...te-Woods-Mellon-Legacy-Very-Fine-20#gallery-1 $400 hammer, $450 total. Dirtier paper and I don't think as nice as mine:
I've really been starting to like gold certificates a lot lately, after never paying much attention to them in the past. But alas, I can only collect so many things
You can always go for a lower-graded less expensive note and then move up. I fear the fixed supply and loack of "hoards" means the price will keep going up as their novelty was a big hit during Covid. Ditto large denomination bills. And neither will take a dip in price like gold coins if the price of gold falls like it has YTD. It appears my GC has appreciated 100% going by what I see on Ebay, HA, and GC.
Yeah, I see some surprisingly affordable examples available. It will go on my list of things to research and potentially acquire
The sooner the better with this low-priced stuff like circulated Large Denomination Bills. The cheaper stuff has the new Keyboard Buyers we learned about during Covid. They'll buy ANYTHING that is cheap rather than pay up for quality or higher grades. MSDs, fractional gold and/or eagles, bills costing uner $1,000.....all targets for them. Remember this ?
