Go on eBay and search completed auctions in the US Paper Money category for 'Barr PCGS 66'. You'll see that 26 of them have sold in the past couple weeks ranging in price from $6.01 to a high of $12.50. PCGS 67's are going for only a few dollars more. Couple fresh packs of 100 have also sold recently for $570 and $675 which works out to $5.70 and $6.75 per CU note. So...yes, that price is for real. Might be just a bit off if you include shipping which is $6 per note, so at best you could say that a 1963-B Barr note graded 66PPQ by PCGS can easily be obtained for $12-$18.
not even counting shipping. Thats a great price for a 40+ year old note!! Cant even get current notes in that grade at that price lol sorry i doubted you dursin
I was surprised too when I looked those up...I'm almost tempted to grab one, especially if I can get one of the $6 ones!
There seems to be plenty to go around. I might spend a little more and find a PMG graded one though as I already have a PCGS graded note. I really only want one example of each TPG for my collection as I'm not a fan of graded notes and 1 of each is more than enough. Better yet, I should find a nice ungraded Gem CU example.
Just remember that although Barr was Treasury Secretary for only one month, during that time they made enough $1 notes with his signature for every man, woman, and child in the USA at that time (including me). I remember being told to be on the lookout for Barr notes, and when I finally found one, I raced down to the local coin shop, only to be told that it was worth $1.
Actually if you look at this page (thanks again Numbers for great site!) http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/f1963bs.html It shows that there were 458,880,000 1963B $1's printed, not including stars which look like they'd add another 12 million or so to the total. Since it also says these notes were delivered in 1969, you can look at the US population for that year and see it was just above 200,000,000. http://www.npg.org/facts/us_historical_pops.htm So, that would mean that there were about 2.3 notes printed for every man, woman and child in the US!!! Add to that the fact that like yourself, many were told to be on the lookout for these notes, many more than normal were likely horded in fresh from the pack condition...heck, entire packs were horded. This is probably why it's easy today to find from this series in really nice condition.
I was just going by what the dealer told me back in 1969! Wow-- there were actually more than twice as many made as I had thought all these years!
That's right, or, isn't that also right about many items! That's right, or, isn't that also right about many items! Many items nowadays that are modern and minted in quantity should never be graded at all - for instance the "Barr" note - even 100 years from now it's not going to be worth much more than it is now, maybe $20 or $25 - it'ain't rare! Think about it, there are 10 or thousands of them in 65, 66 raw and certified - it's just nothing special at all - so many are still falling into that bottomless pit of modern (or Common) items graded by third party graders that are, never will be, never were, rare or hard to get. So many are and I have been warning about this that if you do not heed this advice, "you will lose money" - it's not a prediction any longer it's a fact. All this MS-69 or whatever stuff will fall and fall hard. Already we see dealers offering the same for sets of graded MS-69 ASE as for raw sets. It's up to the person as to what they want to collect but I for one will not and urge other to either not do it or stock up on skin balm - they will need it for all their wounds!
I agree and pretty much extend that opinion to all notes. From what I've seen there is almost always a margin of error of +/- 1 full grade on TPG slabbed notes, yet people are willing to pay a significant amount of money for a 67 vs a 66 when they likely couldn't tell the difference between the two notes if they were put in front of them unslabbed...and if they CAN tell the difference, then who needs the TPG?!? I've also recently seen grading errors of much much more than a single grade. As others have said...buy the note, not the plastic as imho, the plastic has no value.
