2 1957 Silver Certificates With Same Serial Numbers How is this possible ?? I bought these from a dealer on the internet when I was just virgin to the World Wide Web. I showed them to a currency dealer, at my first coin & currency show I ever been to, 2 years ago, and the dealer said that was common, " Yeah, Right ". And I instantly walked away from his table. Would like to subit them to PCGS. What's your thought"s on this ?
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2 1957 Silver Certificates With Same Serial Numbers I mean how is it possible to have both ?? The star note is a replacement for the one without the star.
Themixter The star note is a different series than the other note. just as you can have notes with the same serial numbers except the letters being different, you can have star notes withe the same numbers. Star notes are used to replace damaged or misprinted notes but will not usually have the same number as the note they are replacing. The star notes are a seperate run. Richard
they are the same series, per se.. but one is from the AA block, one is from the *A block. You will also find the same serial number in the BA, BB, CA, CB and CC blocks and so on. serials CAN repeat themselves... what would be nice to find is 2 1957 notes or any series with both from the AA block or any other block for that matter lol and to have them both have the same serial. That is what the bep tries to avoid. USPaperMoney.info is an awsome website for serial questions.
Daggarjon, Are the notes worth anything together ?? Both are crisp if as they just came off the press.
Daggarjon is correct in the Block assignment. These are very nice notes and should hold a premium. I am not a Silver Cert expert by any means so I would suggest you look up archives at the major auction house for pricing info. Great pair of notes! RickieB
to the right geek... absolutely. (and yes, i am a numismatic geek ) I would think the condition would matter more then the same serials though. but that is just 1 opinion. If you were to sell them, someone who cares more about the matching serials might jump on it. There is a seller on Ebay who does that sort of thing. They are always selling notes with the same serial numbers. They are slightly different in that the notes they sell in pairs are from different series, and are usually well circulated. The Price they ask, imho is way to high for what they offer but again... thats just my opinion
I bought some of those notes myself on eBay but just a few. I was trying to figure how they would come across so many, what kind of progam they used. I paid a pretty penny for the pair about 9 years ago and would like to send them in to PCGS but....
So, you could have a 1957 Silver Certificate with serial number *00003607A as a replacement for B00003607A which was damaged during printing. What would be interesting is if another with the same (except first letter) serial number was damaged...lets say, D00003607, such that a second *00003607A was created! I'm sure that pair would be worth quite a bit.
No, this is not how star notes work--that would defeat the entire purpose of star notes. The serial numbers are not matched this way. This star note *00003607A would have been used as a replacement for A00256735A or something like that. The whole reason why star notes exist is so that replacements can be prepared in advance, before the defective notes are even discovered. The star explains why there's an out-of-sequence serial in the middle of the strap of new notes. In the old days (before 1910), every defective note was replaced with an individually prepared replacement note that had exactly the same serial number, letters and all, as the bad note. This took a lot of time, since each replacement had to be specially numbered, one at a time, by the inspector who found the defective notes. Star notes were invented to speed up this replacement process, by getting rid of the requirement that the replacement note's serial number had to be matched to the bad note's serial number. And I'm not sure I'd call this 1957 matched pair "common", but it's not the first one I've seen either. Somebody seems to have got hold of the first brick of 1957 silver certificates, A00000001A - A00004000A, and sold all those low serials into the collector market; they come up for sale fairly often. So whenever a low-serial star note was found, there's a good chance that the corresponding low-serial regular note was available to pair it with, and quite a few pairs like this were put together.
