Ok folks I need some educating real quick or a nice webpage to read on paper money. Preferably just one dollar bills for starters. I have the opportunity to see alot of these on a daily basis due to working with the public. Are there some easy things to look for such as the stars next to the numbers or anything? What are radars and repeaters ? Thanks
star notes are fun to collect radars are a serial number that read the same backwards and forwards ... 12344321 is a radar ... and better yet, if you can get the letters at the front and back to match A12344321A repeaters are what it says, 12121212 or 12221222 or anything similar
Here is a Star note: http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/rickieb1955/1999Star.jpg Here is a repeater:http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/rickieb1955/2004A2002.jpg Here is a Radar: http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/rickieb1955/199050Radar.jpg Hope this helps as well. Good post Daggarjon! RickieB
I was just looking at the Initials of the 3 post's here: D= Daggerjon R= RickieB D= De Orc and this is what came to me...LOL being silly here...:bigeyes: Dr.D= Dr. Denomination, yes I know I am sick in the head, but I thought it was funny!! RickieB
a star on modern currency denotes it is a replacement note for a note that was damaged during the printing process...
The lady at the bank said that the star denotes the start of a new series of serial numbers or the end of a set of serial numbers. Rather than argue with her I thought I would post here and see. She also told me that someone just turned in $100 in $2 bills the other day. I about .... my shorts. She said "nothing fancy though, just $2 bills". I don't know enough to even ask an intelligent question about them.... sigh.
well, they 'used' to use a star note for the 00000000'th note, but now they only go up to 96****** (someone with a better memory will fill in the exact number) so they dont issue a star note for that anymore. Things these days are different, but one thing that remains certain, stars are replacements for defectives. Even back when they did use a star note for the 00000000 note, they still issued star notes for defective notes. as for the $2 notes, might be nothign special with them if they are the 1976 series... but like every denomination and series, there are notes from low mintage districts or some other reason that due turn into somethig special. Or, as does happen from time to time, there could be a legal tender note inthe mix.. one never knows until they buy whats available, and search them oh, and it would help alot to have a book when lookign through a bundle or two of notes it makes finding the low mintage districts, errors, varieties and the liek a bit easier good luck!
