Happy Friday to everyone! I am hoping to get your input on which of these notes are of value. I grouped multiple notes in one picture based similarities. So you can choose just type the category, group(a,b etc.) row number. Feel free to add your opinions, thoughts and constructive criticisms. I hope you find this interesting than my usual post. Categories: *C'mon man!! Seriously?!!! *Spend it! * Maybe.. *Keep that! Group A( off center) Group B ( years/ bday) Group C ( 3 numbers Trinary?) Group D (Trips) Group D (Star notes) Group E ( silver cert 1935c/1935e) Group G (flipper and miscellaneous) That's all folks!
I'd vote for spend them. I'm not too big on keeping fancy serial numbers unless they are radars or true repeaters. As for the stars, I only keep them if they are in CU or close. For the off-centers, with my eyesight, I probably wouldn't have noticed them if you hadn't pointed them out. The only thing I'd hold on to out of that group is the silver certificates and that's only because of their age.
The stars are a little wrinkly, but only those and the blue seals are keepers. I don't even see an almost on any of the others. All spenders. Trinary isn't even a real thing.
I'd keep the silver certs and the stars. Spend the rest. The star notes probably aren't worth a premium, I just dig 'em.
Quick question, what is the parameters for the bills to be considered alignment error? The one in group A, all of them have an uneven borders. The very last picture was almost a radar? If on the center # would have paired. Also the 1st picture in group G, the bill can be turned upside down and you can still have row of readable numbers. I know there is no "trinary" which is why there is a question mark at the end. That whole row could have been binaries though. Plus all of those notes would have been repeaters if the position of one number on each note were switched.
Off centers, to be worth anything, would have to be way off and likely include the printed portion of the note being missing. Off centered notes such as those you have shown are very common and hold no value over face. This is the cause of registration being slightly off when the eye (sensor) that reads the note is out of adjustment and signals the knives to cut at the wrong time.
Thanks for the info! Kinda new with collecting paper money. I have a question for you if do mind. What type of US paper money collection do you have? Are you into the errors and varieties, fancy serial#, old historical US currency? What book/ resource you recommend that I start reading to better understand the different characteristics, varieties , key dates that I should be in the look out for, especially those that are in circulation. Tahnks
My collection is rather small overall. I do collect the large "Horse Blankets' as they used to be called. (U.S. large notes) I have some gold certificates in mid grades and silver certificates mostly uncirculated. And some uncut BEP sheets of four and sixteen notes. My collecting these was rather random over the years and I have not persued any in quite awhile. I do not have any recent guide book though, so perhaps someone here could recommend a good book for you. You might check out Krause Publications for their listings of paper money books.
