Hello KD.... Since you work at a bank and get to go thru many many notes you have a better advantage of seeing what is there than most other folks. I also see you ask alot of questions based on what do you collect or would you collect this or that? The questions are great ones so please do not take this the wrong way....LOL From what I gather about you is that you are really undecided on what it is you would like to collect or that you may want to filter through what might be worth more than face....who would'nt?? The question you should ask yourself is what do I, KDKenn want to collect? You see, every collector has his/her own agenda for what is important to them and what makes them feeel graet about their collections. With the opportunity you have in front of you, I would be looking at a small size collection of stars, binaries, radars, and possible errors. Find the direction and the notes will make them selves known to you. Keep up the search and go to www.banknotebank.com and setup a viewing area fro your notes!! Best of luck to you... Kind regards, RickieB
\ Thanks RickieB You have pretty much got me figured out! LOL I don't know what I want to collect. I do know that my 2 favorite notes are my 00000777 and 00006660 notes. I LOVE THEM! So I guess that low serial numbers are actually my favorites. I also think another of my favs are what I thought was an error but am not sure. I am posting a pic of it again on here. Regarless of whether it's an actual error or not it's the only one that I've ever found and I love it. BUT I obviously do want to keep things that are worth over face too whether it's something that catches my eye or not.
Well KD..it seems that we just started a collection for you..... Any note with 4 leading zero's or less plus stars! Now that is a good way to start a collection!! The seven leading zero notes are very expensive!! Good luck to you KD and buy those low numbered notes in "High Grade" XF or better!! RickieB
What the heck is that???? I have never seen anything like that. http://www.cointalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=34126&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1225295667
Thanks RickieB. I will definatly buy better condition notes than the ones that I have but everything that I have so far is from circulation. I don't know enough about any of it to actually buy anything yet. I'm afraid I would be ripped off.
I had never seen one either then another teller that I work with showed me thinking that it was fake. I thought it was real but didn't know what it was so I asked her if I could buy it from her drawer and she said yes. I paid $1 for it.
nice notes posted, both minor AND major offsets as for the OP question, i dont keep binarys. they just dont interest me.. that is unless they also form a radar or something like that
I collect currency by type usually and I'm not especially impressed by "fancy" serial numbers (binaries, radars, etc.) but that's just me. Nothing wrong with collecting such, just not my cup of tea. I do save stars on ocassion but would rather get a high quaility type note, and it not being a star or special serial number makes it cheaper to do so. I also collect a lot more world notes than US notes. Mainly, that's because I'm big on type, and it's cheaper to assemble a greater variety of types with world notes than US ones; US notes are more expensive when you get to types that differ significantly from what's currently in circulation. Most of my US notes I got out of circulation or for not a whole lot over face value. Exception with US notes is the $2 denomination... I actually collect it by series, and after I finish my collection of all the series of small ones, I'll slowly but surely start working on the large ones! Have already promised myself that I'd get a 1917 US note as my reward for finishing the smalls (just have 1928A and 1928B to go!). Anyway that's what I collect... feel free to collect whatever sparks you're interest. Some are big on foreign notes, some US; some are big on fancy serials, errors, etc. Would advise you if you're just starting out not to try to collect to much at once... you can't collect everything and you'll give yourself a headache if you spread out too much too early. As for that one dollar note you showed... it looks like a somewhat minor offset, produced when some of the ink off the front of another $1 note, transferred on to the back of the one in the picture (which is why the obverse image that transferred over to the reverse of yours is backwards; you can see that Washington is facing left instead of right). The error occurs when sheets of notes are stacked together before the ink has dried sufficiently. The stronger the transfer, the higher the value of the error.
