I want to know if I messed up too badly by buying one of these $5 dollar 1995 bills for $8 dollars. Here's a number of a sale going on right now on ebay, 200301750701, $21.95 on a BIN. Mine is a G series note and it's in unc as far as I can tell. I went to a club meeting but I didn't hear much about the bill other than I wanted it but I thought I was bidding on a star note. Come to find out at the sales end, the auctioneer didn't say anything about a star note on this particular sale at all. No big deal, it's my $5 now and I will keep it gladly. Any other info would help, does anyone collect these??
I think you mean G district, which is Chicago. Cat. of US paper money lists it at $10 in 63 and $13 in 65. What is the serial number?
mighty fine addition:thumb: i would say $8-12 isnt bad. kinda like this first one and the star to match
Series 1995 $5 FRNs have the distinction of being the last series for the design used for 70 years -- Series 1999 $5 Federal Reserve Notes have a complete redesign after more than 70 years of small size $5 notes. The portrait of Lincoln changes from the engraving based on Anthony Berger's photograph to an engraving based on Matthew Brady's photograph of Lincoln (also used on the Series 1882 $500 Gold Certificate). The note features a watermark of Lincoln's portrait to the right of the Treasury Seal. They also feature micro-lettering and a plastic strip that glows blue under ultraviolet light. The Federal Reserve Seal is changed to a universal Federal Reserve Seal and printed in black. The serial numbers are also different. They feature an initial letter "B" followed by the letter designating the Federal Reserve District. Just below the serial number on the left side, the district letter and number are printed in black ink.
How rare is the G series? Sounds like they are only worth a premium in Uncirculated condition. Shoot I see clayirving answered my question while I was writing it.
Not too rare -- 518,400,000 notes were printed for the Chicago Federal Reserve District at the Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, TX.
I am not aware of any statistics of number of notes circulated, but I venture a guess that a vast majority of the more than a half billion notes printed went into circulation -- The 9.4 million star notes printed for the Chicago Federal Reserve District represents only 1.88% of the regular notes printed!
