OK, most bundles I get are uneventful. Either they are solid brand new bundles, or they are circulated with the usual 1976 UNC's sprinkled throughout, often in small bunches of consecutive serial numbers. I also average a couple stars out of the circulated bundles. Well, this last bundle threw me for a loop. It contained over $250 of flat out mutilated currency. I'm talking notes torn in half and taped back together. The bundle was definitely from the FRB with the straps dated 12/18/07. There was probably another $500 of what I would consider "unfit". I pulled the mutilated to send back as such. I'm always more forgiving on 1976 $2's and recirculate those as much as possible. The kicker though was coming across the note clearly stamped "Mutilated". I attached a scan below. I'm guessing that some bank routed several hundred dollars of unfit/mutilated $2's to the Federal Reserve and the Feds just recirculated the entire bunch. Based on their published specifications for unfit currency, I always though they used optics to identify and remove unfit notes, but there is no way half of the notes I got would have passed such an inspection. Really baffling. I also found one with a serial number that was just so close to being a really super cool number (scan below). I23457893A. I dream of getting the brand new bundle that starts with 23456 or 12345. Also found a birthday note (for someone that was born on March 41, 2003!!!)
I forgot two other honorable mentions from this last bundle. Serial number B33552200A and another minor overprint shift (this one is borderline almost moderate). It's a shame about the writing on the note.
none of thsoe notes look anything like what i would think of as mutilated. wonder why someone stamped that on that one note - it looks perfectly acceptible to me. that one note that has the sifted serial - the 38- is prolly what the guy thought the note was worth, so he wrote the price on the note. Only then did he realize he ruined the note by writing on it so he spent it
The note that was stamped mutilated is borderline unfit. when I say there were about $250 that I set aside as mutilated, I mean mutilated. Torn and taped, missing pieces, wash machine, notes that I would question their ability to be counted in a currency counter that detects denomination. As for the error, tellers will often write the amount of notes in a stack in their drawer on the top note. My guess is that at one time, this error was the top note on a $38 pile of $2's in a teller drawer.
thats true. Tis funny i didnt think of that Whever i go to a bank for mutilated currency, they always use a piece of paper or a pst-it-note to write down the value. tis the easiest explanations that are often overlooked
i've heard somewhere that bills with the mutilated stamp on them can be worth some money on ebay. i'm not sure if that is true or not becuase you could easily get a stamp that says mutilated on it.
Lol, nice notes man! That B-Day note is cool, never looked for those. Grrrr, thanks a lot, now yet another too look for, lol. Nice notes. :thumb: Phoenix
Hummmm Series 2003A note SN is ending in 2003 with a "A" suffix Letter..:kewl: Pretty cool note Gatzdon! RickieB
$2 bills worth paying premium for I thought the 1976 bills were worth paying a premium. On ebay a pack of 50 consecutive sells for $160 up to $250. BUT I did some internet research. I see on wikipedia, where it says the print runs of the 1995 and the 2003 $2 bills are much shorter print runs. so now Im thinking either I was wrong that the 1976 bills are special, OR the 1976 run has been mass circulated.
