picked this out of a delivery of new notes yesterday. can't find a $ value or sales data for other examples of this note. any insight would be much appreciated. details: minneapolis district, series 2017 one dollar, serial I 09112001 A pulled directly from frb strap. printed slightly off-center to the right. no folds / creases. corners all sharp. ink smears in serial and frb stamp. trying to determine if having it graded would be beneficial, or if i should just hoard it away with the rest of my raw finds. thanks!
If it were mine, I'd submit it for grading. I wouldn't care about the value. 9/11 is one of the saddest dates in our history. Chris
i don't really have any intention of selling it, but it's always interesting to know the value of a thing.
Value? It only depends on what a buyer is willing to pay for it. I don't think there is any set price for such a date.
ok, please allow me to rephrase. has anyone witnessed any historical sales data on this particular serial number, by which a person may ballpark the expected going rate of a similar note.
Pretty sure it's worth a dollar at least, lol, now seriously. repeaters, radars, palindromes, low numbers, high numbers, binary, ladder, they all have a value for collectors above the face value but it's like a few bucks above face value if it sells. Yours falls in to the category of sentimental or personal value serial numbers. like a birthday or an anniversary or wedding date, or the date of 9/11 in your case, and I'd think It has personal/sentimental value for quite a few people out there compared to birthyears or a wedding date. It's worth what people that want it would be willing to pay, and an auction format where the largest amount of prospective buyers available would be the way to go if you did sell it. I haven't seen that same thing for sale anywhere. You can check out a website called "cool serial numbers .com" It's a website of a long time collector. he buys and sells and trades from there. Named Dave Undis. He will even appraise an estimated for you what he thinks it's worth for $2.00 through paypal it's basically just to cover the paypal fee charged and some of his web hosting fee, and then email him a scan of the front and back of the note. directions are on his site on how to do it if you are interested. I'd also say getting to graded and then frame it with a picture, and making it more of a nice collector/commemoration/memorabilia piece for display would increase it's appeal to more collectors, and increase it's sold value, and likely worth the investment if/when you went to sell it, just keep in mind what you spend on it so you recover that plus profit when you sell it.
thank you sir. i had already found dave's site during my google searches, but did not see the appraisal page. i may have to give that a try. as for grading the note (and apologies for the tangent) ... grading raw notes is something i've never really attempted in the past. i have a few notes that could do well by getting graded (some old national bank notes, mismatched serials, etc), but i'm not entirely sure of the best method for a layperson to attempt grading a batch of notes. would it make more sense to find a dealer and have them submit the notes on my behalf, or just create my own account and pay the grading company directly for their services?
My best shot at things like this is ebay, amazon & google (I have seen a lot of similar notes there). Get a general price of "anything" similar and ballpark it as to what you want for it, (even as you said, if you don't intend on selling it). As previously said though, it is only worth what someone will pay for it. And trust me, there are some "people", out there that will buy most anything, no matter how sad, creepy, strange, etc., it is. Good luck and keep trying, you never know.
