First and foremost, congratulations! That's an incredible stack of notes. As a new collector, I wonder if you'll answer me a quick question? If not it's completely fine and well, but I guess it doesn't hurt to ask... How does one go about finding these sort of certificates at the bank? I'm definitely curious, and I'm going to the bank in a couple days to buy my first coin rolls anyway. Once again, congratulations. I'm definitely envious!
There are 16 notes pictured , 1-4 & 6 came from ebay 5,7,8,14, & 16 came from the bank 9,10,11,12,13, & 15 came from local coin shop . As far as picking up notes from the banks , people either are hard up and cash them in or someone has hit someones stash i would imagine ! Which is a bad deal , but i just have some nice tellers that call me when it shows up ! Ive also picked up l;oads of silver coins at face value also !!
Very fortunate indeed. I guess I was a bit naive to think I could walk into the bank and ask if they have any silver or gold certificates. Thank you very much for the info, and congratulations again.
You can get Silver Certs (blues)and , Legal Tenders (reds) easier than the others ! Actually ive picked up quite a few sc's at the bank . and prob. 6 or 8 red deuces .
thats an awsome haul! quite a nice mix! i love the national. Its cool to see nationals from places you never heard of
You can certainly *ask*. The response will vary tremendously from one bank branch to the next.... If there's a teller working there who collects old/interesting money, then all the other tellers will already have been told to save everything for him/her, and they'll be unlikely to pass anything along to you. Otherwise, they'll often be perfectly glad to sell interesting money to customers at face value, should they have any. If they recognise you as a regular customer whom they see fairly often at that bank branch, then they may even be willing to set aside the "nifty" money for you to pick up next time you're in. If you luck into finding a branch like this: Don't turn down anything they've saved for you, if you can possibly help it. Even if it's just yet another scribbled-on 1974 $20, buy it, thank them profusely, and spend it if you don't want to keep it. That way they'll keep saving you anything interesting that comes along, and someday it'll be something good. One day a few years back I walked into my credit union and was offered sixty-one $1 silver certificates, plus some old FRN $1's. The teller said that there *had* been some Funnybacks, but that the other tellers had already bought all of those.... Fortunately none of the tellers knew enough about old money to have picked out the 1935D *..D, so I got that one. In the "stuff that got away" category, I once walked into my bank and found all the tellers gathered together looking at something: Apparently another customer, not five minutes before, had deposited an 1899 $1 silver certificate, a "Black Eagle". The thing must've been VF+ if not XF. They knew enough not to send *that* back out at face value!
Numbers: That is INCREDIBLE! I can't believe someone would deposit such a beauty. Unreal! Beyond the Black Eagle, I'd flip if someone offered me ten silver certs, let alone sixty-one. Wow! Hopefully my bank will be willing to sell me at least a couple of something. Thanks again for the great info and the awesome stories!
